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A Peek Inside The Orient Express

The "Orient Express" was a long-distance passenger train service created in 1883 by Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits. The carriag...

The Victorian Mansion Perfect for Wes Anderson’s remake of the Addams Family

Meet the Victorian gem that rolled right out of our dreams, and into the little city of Abilene, Kansas. The yellow brick mansion – boast...

The Cave With A Thousand Coffins

Hundreds of thousands of wooden coffins are left to slowly rot away in dank Chinese caves in the belief it will let the souls of the depa...

When Jimi Hendrix Got Kicked out of the Army for Masturbating on Duty

In 1961, Hendrix was given a choice between two years in jail or or joining the Army after a run in with the law for riding in stolen ca...

The London Park Dedicated To Everyday Heroes Who Died Saving Others • Postman’s Park

Postman’s Park is one of the few gardens you can find in the old City of London. It’s just north of St. Paul’s Cathedral But it isn’t jus...

Hearing Otis Redding’s 'Try a Little Tenderness' as a Song of Resistance

On December 10, 1967, the plane carrying Otis Redding and his band the Bar-Kays crashed into the frigid waters of Lake Monona in Wisconsi...

“This Machine Kills Fascists”The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie

Woody’s songs—like “Reuben James,” “Roll on Columbia,” “Union Maid” and “Pastures of Plenty”—have been some of the most recognizable and ...

Josephine Butler: Social Reformer And Someone We Should Learn More About In School

A Victorian Era women’s suffrage campaigner, Josephine Butler also campaigned for the right of women to better education, the abolition o...

Dr Harold Moody: The British Civil Rights Activist You May Not Have Heard Of.

The story of Dr Harold Moody, a man that led the first effective black pressure group in this country, the League of Coloured Peoples. He...

The Harrods Catalogue From 1912 Just Got Digitised

This 1,525-page catalogue from London’s world-famous department store, Harrods, does seem to mean everything, with over 15,000 products a...

Inside The Sinking Of The USS Indianapolis That Ended In A Feeding Frenzy For Sharks

After delivering the components of the Hiroshima bomb in 1945, the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine, leaving nearly...

Joe Arridy: The Mentally Disabled Man Executed For A Grisly Murder He Didn’t Commit

Blissfully unable to even understand the concept of dying, Joe Arridy was described by the warden as "the happiest man who ever lived on ...

Little-Known Holocaust History: Fleeing Germany, Then Living In A British Castle

On November 15, 1938, shortly after Kristallnacht, a delegation of prominent British Jewish leaders had met with Prime Minister Sir Nevil...

The Moves Of Gene Kelly

When his mother first enrolled him and his brother in dance classes when Gene was still a boy, he had to endure taunts from his classmate...

The Assassinations, Bombings, And Bizarre Fame Of Carlos The Jackal

Born Ilich Ramírez Sánchez in Venezuela, Carlos the Jackal found worldwide infamy in the 1970s as a Marxist revolutionary and terrorist w...

When “Mona Lisa” was stolen in 1911 and the police questioned Picasso

Mona Lisa or La Gioconda, is arguably “the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied w...

The Traditional German Sword Fighting Art Called Mensur

Academic fencing (German akademisches Fechten) or Mensur is the traditional kind of fencing practised by some student corporations (Stude...

The Strange Costumes of the Plague Doctors Who Treated 17th Century Victims of the Bubonic Plague

In the 17th and 18th centuries, what we know of as The Age of Enlightenment or early modernity, Europeans traversed the globe and returne...

The Mind-Boggling History Of Sex Toys, From Ancient Butt Plugs To Steam-Powered Vibrators

With the oldest-known dildo clocking in at 28,000 years, sex toys are older than civilization, religion, and marriage combined. The oldes...

How You Could Buy Perfume In 1925

No, not a Chocolate Orange, this was manufactured in 1925 for Les Parfums de Marcy “L’Orange Variee” perfume. The scent comes packaged in...

The Victorian Photographic Society That Tried To Preserve ‘Old London’

In capturing images of doomed buildings, they documented the city they thought they were losing. In 1875, Alfred Marks learned he was abo...

A Day In The Life Of A Medieval Executioner In Their 16th-Century Heyday

The daily life of a medieval executioner was not easy. They did more than simply chop off heads and break prisoners on the wheel. Trying ...

The Life Of Queen Liliuokalani, Hawaii’s Last Monarch

When Queen Liliuokalani ascended to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1891, she became the first female ruler of the Hawaiian monarc...

When Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin by accident

Fleming was born on August 6, 1881 at his parents’ farm located near the small town of Darvel, in Scotland, UK. His parents, Hugh Fleming...

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