“The Old Man and the Pool”: After Ava Gardner went for a swim at his Havana house, Ernest Hemingway issued an unusual edict
Details of Elvis Presley’s divorce from Priscilla, full signatures included, emerge in 12-page document going up for auction
When John Gotti ordered the murder of his boss, “Big Paul” Castellano, outside Sparks Steak House, it became “the hit of the century”
When Athelhampton House’s owner died in 1598, his four daughters equally divided the manor and it remained divided for 250 years
Not being Italian was no obstacle to James Caan, who portrayed Sonny in “The Godfather,” winning “Italian of the Year”–twice!
Nightingale floors: the Japanese flooring system used for alerting castle lords to nighttime attacks by ninja assassins
In WWII, Soviet partisans hid in the Odessa Catacombs, which stretch for thousands of miles below the city