Billed as a human-orangutan hybrid, Julia Pastrana made her stage debut in 1854. Though she eventually fell in love and got married, her…
Katharine Woolley (1888-1945) was a highly controversial figure. She is often remembered as the wife of the famous Leonard Woolley, rather than for…
The rock drawings of Valcamonica are prehistoric petroglyphs carved in the glacier-polished, grey-purple Permian sandstone of the Camonica valley that extends for 90…
Location of Gonur Depe and Gonur Long before Merv raised its first tower, Bronze Age villages were assembling along the Murgab River in…
Of all the Stoneworks of Asuka, the Rock Ship of Masuda is the most unusual and largest of all. Image credit: Saigen Jiro/Wikimedia…
Aloha Airlines’ Boeing 737-297, N73711. 28 April 1988: Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737-297 airliner, FAA registration N73711, named Queen Liliuokalani ,…
Cleopatra’s Kingdom Off The Coast Of Alexandria, Egypt Christoph Gerigk / Franck Goddio / Hilti FoundationA team of divers from Franck Goddi’s team…
In 1975, George Lutz and his family moved into the infamous “Amityville Horror” house in New York — then fled just 28 days…
France's Caesar self-propelled guns as aid to Ukraine were seized by Russia and transferred to the Uralvagonzavod weapons factory for research. This information…
In 1981, the largest military exercise in human history was held in the Baltic region called "Zapad-81". Even during 8 days of Soviet…
From July 1976 to December 1989 a strange noise could be heard on shortwave radios all around the globe. The signal was extremely…
Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski (born June 3, 1993) is an American theoretical physicist from Chicago who studies high energy physics. She describes herself as “a proud first-generation Cuban-American and Chicago…