The fun but morbid “Struwwelpeter” is a 19th-century German children’s book in which the children suffer bizarre punishments
“I see that you have made three spelling mistakes,” remarked Marquis de Favras when he read his death warrant
Peter Freuchen, a Danish explorer, writer, and Nazi Resistance fighter who amputated his frostbitten toes himself without anesthesia
Abbott and Costello were the highest paid entertainers of WWII, but away from the spotlight life wasn’t so joyful