Betty Davis, The World Just Wasn't Ready For You.
In 1974, a year before the release of Nasty Gal, the third studio album by funk and fashion trailblazer Betty Davis, the New York Times...
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The Loneliest Photo Ever, By Michael Collins
Michael Collins took this picture of the Lunar Module, containing Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong with Earth in the background, during the...
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The Monk That Lived For 82 Years And Died Without Ever Seeing A Woman.
Mihailo Tolotos, an Orthodox Greek Monk, is said to have lived for 82 years and died, without ever laying eyes on a woman. His story is...
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Why Does ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Keep Getting Banned In The US?
In 2019 a school board’s decision to remove To Kill a Mockingbird from eighth grade curriculums in Biloxi, Mississippi, was the latest in...
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The Guy That Bought Stonehenge But His Wife Hated It So He Gave It Away
Today Stonehenge is one of England's most important monuments, but in 1915 it was up for sale. The man who bought it helped seal its...
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Michael Fagan: The Man That Broke Into The Queen's Bedroom
It was one of the most extraordinary moments of Queen Elizabeth II's reign, and one that is still unbelievable 40 years later. In the...
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The Last Time Pink Floyd Met Syd Barrett
The Syd Barrett that Roger Waters met while studying at Cambridgeshire High School For Boys was a starkly different soul to the one who...
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Famous Musicians When They Were Young
Before rockstars walked the earth, they were little. Here's the proof. Some of these are instantly recognisable, others are hard to spot....
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'Sleep With Donald Trump', The Competition We All Missed in 1990
In August 1990, Playgirl Magazine advertised the chance to “Sleep with Donald Trump” on its cover to its predominantly female audience....
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Etiquette From The 1910s That Early Movie-Goers Had To Follow
During the silent film era, theatres imposed specific rules for movie watchers, displaying them on little cards. They gave several...
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Antonin Personnaz’s Autochrome Of 1907-1914 France
Art collector Antonin Personnaz took autochrome pictures of France’s Oise Valley between 1907 and 1914. He resembled the work of artists...
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The Man who could Smoke Through His Eyes, Meet Alfred Langevin
Alfred Langevin was the man who could smoke a pipe through his eyes. He lived in Detroit, Michigan, during the 1930s. Langevin appeared...
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The $420m Production That Almost Bankrupted Fox
It had all the makings of a Hollywood blockbuster: adulterous love affairs, broken marriages, millions of dollars in squandered funds and...
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An Animated Introduction To Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka — he wrote that story about the guy who turns into a bug, and lot of stuff about complex and implacable bureaucracy, right?...
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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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