The Night of the Long Knives, How It Changed The World
The greatest challenge to Hitler's survival during the early years of the Third Reich came from his own brown-shirted storm troopers, the...
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19th Century Daguerreotype Portraits of The Blind
“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.” – Helen Keller...
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Illustrations From Dr Alesha Sivartha’s Book of Life (1898)
“The human race has been marching upward from the first ages of history. Under what law has that mighty procession of the ages taken...
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Rat Poison, Cheating, Close Deaths, The Bonkers Story Of The1904 Olympic Marathon In St. Louis
America’s first Olympics may have been its worst, or at least its most bizarre. Held in 1904 in St. Louis, the games were tied to that...
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Cocaine and Freud, A Long Friendship.
The founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, once claimed there had been three great scientific revolutions to have successively knocked...
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The WW2 Spy Manual That Turned Bad Middle Management Into An Espionage Tactic
When you think of allied espionage, you might imagine disguised explosives, wiretaps, bat bombs, or other dramatic inventions. But...
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Was WW1 Really Caused By Franz Ferdinand’s Assassination?
The causes of World War I, also known as the Great War, have been debated since it ended. Officially, Germany shouldered much of the...
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The NASA Astronaut That Believes The Earth Was Created 6000 Years Ago
To hear Charlie Duke tell it, his life's most important moment did not come 50 years ago, when he became the 10th and youngest of 12...
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The Fall Of Rome In A Nutshell (Sort Of)
The gradual process of decline that brought the Roman Empire to an end is one of the all-time favourite history topics. That a nation so...
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The Unmistakable Style of Inge Morath, One of Magnum’s First Female Photographers
The mannequins, following the show, Dior Show at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, 1954. Inge Morath may have frequently photographed...
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Leonardo Da Vinci's To-Do List Will Put You To Shame
Tucked away somewhere, maybe in a pocket notepad, scribbled on some paper in your wallet or buried in an obscure app you rarely use, is a...
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Hieronymus Bosch Figurines: Collect Surreal Characters from Bosch’s Paintings
Few painters have created as rich a world as Hieronymus Bosch did in The Garden of Earthly Delights. The late 15th- or early 16th-century...
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The Wild Story of Recording Metallica’s ‘Ride the Lightning’
When 1984 rolled around, it was less Orwellian than some had predicted. Far from being a time of media censorship and cultural...
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Meryl Streep Photoshopped Onto Food
Sometimes a gorgeous surreal idea is born, and this Instagram account is one of them.
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Classical Figures Photoshopped into Modern-Day Italy
Ukrainian artist Alexey Kondakov merges figures from classical oil paintings with photographic scenes of modern Naples.
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The Birth Of Astral Weeks
The story of how Van Morrison fled record-industry thugs, hid out in Boston, and wrote one of rock’s greatest albums. One day in 1968,...
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The Make Up Of Song Genres
Canadian illustrator John Atkinson reveals the anatomy of different styles of songs.
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Ernst Haeckel’s Sublime Drawings of Flora and Fauna.
If you follow the ongoing beef many popular scientists have with philosophy, you’d be forgiven for thinking the two disciplines have...
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The Woman Who Got Herself Committed In Order To Improve Conditions In A NYC Mental Institute
In 1887, intrepid reporter Nellie Bly pretended she was 'crazy' and got herself committed, all to help improve conditions in a New York...
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Jack Kerouac’s Hand-Drawn Map of the Hitchhiking Trip Narrated in On the Road
Surely most ardent readers of Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road have tried to map Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty's American journey....
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In 1900 This Is What They Thought The Year 2000 Would Be Like
In 1900, German chocolate company Hildebrands produced a series of postcards imagining the wonders of life in the year 2000. The...
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Tony Hancock, The Lonely Death Of A Comic Giant
On 25 June 1968 iconic comedian Tony Hancock was found dead in a flat in Sydney Australia after taking an overdose of sleeping pills....
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How Fred Astaire Could Dance On The Walls And Ceiling.
Hang on to your chairs and lamps. This is You’re All the World to Me, Fred Astaire’s famous 1951 ceiling dance scene I have a lot of...
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The Birth And Survival OF St. Paul's Cathedral
June 21, 1675 — The foundation stone for St. Paul’s, one of the most famous cathedrals in the world, was laid on this day as work began...
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