Joe DiMaggio placed a 20-year order of a half-dozen roses to be put on Marilyn Monroe’s grave three times a week News
Paulownia is also known as the ‘princess tree’ because it was once customary to plant a tree like that when a baby girl was born, and then to make it into a dresser as a wedding present when she married News
“The tree that owns itself” is a white oak in Athens, GA, which is widely assumed to legally own itself and the eight feet of land surrounding it News
In the 18-th century, one could pay admission to the zoo in London by bringing a cat or a dog to feed the lions News
For decades scholars have been studying Plimpton 322, a clay tablet from around 1800 BCE that contains complex mathematical inscriptions Featured News
The ever-changing face of power stations reminds us that technology continually evolves to serve our needs Featured News
Thousand-year-old Pueblo compound provides DNA evidence suggesting that Chacoan culture was matrilineal Featured News
Sixty-nine years later, the Indian government opens investigations into the disappearance of three conspirators in the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi Featured News
New documents reveal that Titanic rescuers tossed the bodies of 3rd-class passengers back into the sea News Featured