Eddie Mannix: the real-life Hollywood fixer, studio executive and producer who inspired Coen brothers “Hail, Caesar!”
The sinking of the HMS Birkenhead: The event that gave rise to the “women and children first” protocol
The “Kryptos” sculpture at the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, carries an unsolved encrypted message
Herman Kahn: The physicist, nuclear-war strategist, and Cold War “scenario planner” who inspired Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove”
A time chamber to be opened in the year 8113 contains recordings of the voices of Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini, Franklin Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler … and Popeye the Sailor