Cornwall’s Museum of Witchcraft & Magic houses 3,000 objects and 7,000 books but even so is not as interesting as its founder, Cecil Williamson
In early English common law, suicide was a punishable crime, and the dead were buried not in graveyards but at a crossroads, where the soul would meet “limbo”
Barefoot and starved, Spartan boys underwent grueling combat training to join the most formidable army of all time
A college archivist cataloging old books found an almanac with strands of George Washington’s gray hair tucked in an envelope
After almost 80 years, 31 rolls of film discovered showing World War II through the lens of an unknown American soldier
Neanderthal artists believed responsible for 65,000-year-old paintings in Spain, which leads to new thinking about Neanderthals’ sophistication
Why America fell in love with joke-filled burlesque in the 19th century, long before it transformed into striptease