Pattie Boyd was the real-life “Layla,” who married George Harrison and became the romantic obsession of his close friend, Eric Clapton
The Collyer brothers were found amid 120 tons of belongings, including 250,000 books and several bowling balls, in their Fifth Avenue mansion
The Antikythera mechanism, an ancient analog “computer”, said to be “more valuable than the Mona Lisa”
For three months in 1964, Vladimir Nabokov wrote down his dreams every morning, pursuing a theory that time flows backward