First, speaking as a collector of Monopoly board games, one of the things geeks like me look forward to are the game pieces, and...

It's been well documented that AC/DC are the greatest band in the history of the galaxy, I've seen them a fair few times live and I can...

Everyone knows DHL, a lot of us will have used them from time to time. The business was set up in 1969 by three guys called Adrian...

We’ve all seen them, joke t-shirts that state the gist of various world religions or philosophies by reference to the aforementioned...

Growing deforestation is a big issue for the sustainability of our environment. But individuals like famed photographer Sebastião Ribeiro...

Before the division of Cyprus in 1974, Varosha – a resort in Famagusta – was booming. The rich and famous were drawn by some of the best...

By the start of the 20th century, Alfred Loewenstein was firmly established as one of the most powerful financiers in the world. He made...

There were seven men in total who tried to stop Ian Ball, an unemployed laborer from north London, from kidnapping Princess Anne, Queen...

Céphas Bansah works as a self-employed car mechanic in the German town of Ludwigshafen. But in his spare time, he oversees the...

Maps, by their very nature, are big fat liars. Despite what the Flat-Earthers would have you believe, the world is indeed spherical,...

We’ve all admired the elegance of Japan’s traditional styles of architecture. Their development required the kind of dedicated...

In the autumn of 1938, when the Munich Agreement was being signed in Europe, Charles Chapin was putting the finishing touches to the...

October 14, 1855 — A carpenter mounted his soapbox on this day complaining about high food prices – and became the first recorded amateur...

By the summer of 1973, John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s marriage was on the rocks. As an unusual remedy, Ono suggested that Lennon embark on an...

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...

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...

In 1981 Paul McCartney flew to Monteserrat, where Beatles producer George Martin had installed a state-of-the-art studio, to begin work...

The Netherlands is famous for its canals and fairytale-like little towns, but the tiny village of Giethoorn in the North rally stands out...

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...

The concept of inemuri can be simplified as ‘sleeping on the job’, but a more accurate definition would be ‘being present while asleep’....

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

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

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

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