Meet An 11th Generation Lincoln
The image above pairs the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, with Ralph Lincoln, an 11th generation Lincoln and third...
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Sorosis: The NYC Women-Only Club That Started An American National Movement
After being rejected by their male literary peers, women writers of New York City joined forces to create their own club called Sorosis —...
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Meet Matthew Henson, The First Black Explorer To Make It To The North Pole
Many have lay claim to being the first explorer to set foot in the Arctic. But few of them has as strong a claim to the title as Matthew...
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Horatio Nelson: From Frail Boy to National Hero
Often maggot-infested, the food was disgusting, living quarters were tiny and discipline was extremely strict, with the threat of lashing...
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A Great Day in Harlem: behind Art Kane's classic 1958 jazz photograph
The young art director’s idea to photograph as many of the luminaries of the New York jazz scene as possible together for Esquire’s 1959...
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Map Sizes Proving I Have No Sense Of Scale
Maps, by their very nature, are big fat liars. Despite what the Flat-Earthers would have you believe, the world is indeed spherical,...
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Daisugi, the 600-Year-Old Japanese Technique of Growing Trees Out of Other Trees
We’ve all admired the elegance of Japan’s traditional styles of architecture. Their development required the kind of dedicated...
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The Woman Who Disguised Herself As A Man For Decades To Practice Surgery Before Women Were Allowed
When renowned surgeon Dr. James Barry passed in 1865, his housemaid Sophia Bishop made a startling discovery: Barry was biologically...
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How Drugs Like Pervitin And Cocaine Fueled The Nazis’ Rise And Fall
Despite Hitler's anti-drug rhetoric, Nazi Germany used a little courage pill called Pervitin to take Europe by storm. It turns out it was...
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The Glorious Inside of a 1926 Rolls-Royce Phantom
The car was commissioned by business baron Clarence Gasque for his wife Maude, a devotee of 18th-century French design, and it remains...
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The Story Of The Great Dictator
In the autumn of 1938, when the Munich Agreement was being signed in Europe, Charles Chapin was putting the finishing touches to the...
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When Bob Marley and Johnny Nash played a school in Peckham together.
In March 1972, Bob Marley and Johnny Nash performed a free gig at a secondary school in south London (above) after a chance encounter...
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The valid reason why Van Halen asked for a bowl of M&Ms with all the brown ones removed backstage
Van Halen had one of the most oddly specific requests of tour riders: a bowl of M&M's, with all the brown ones removed was to be placed...
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The Execution of Dafydd ap Gruffydd
Today is October 3rd, and on this date, in 1283, Dafydd ap Gruffydd, the Prince of Wales, was executed. Dafydd was one of four sons of...
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Say Hello To The Man Who Saved The World
Everybody in the world born before October 27, 1962 probably owes their life to Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov. He was the Russian naval...
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The Tragedy of Aberfan
It was a heartbreaking tragedy known across the world by the name of the South Wales village where it happened: Aberfan. On this day...
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A Grim History of London's Speakers' Corner
October 14, 1855 — A carpenter mounted his soapbox on this day complaining about high food prices – and became the first recorded amateur...
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10 Year Old Elvis Comes Fifth in Talent Show
Standing on a chair at a microphone, he sang “Old Shep” at the Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show, held in Tupelo. The show was...
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