The Moberly–Jourdain incident: In 1901, two female academics claimed to have experienced a timeslip into pre-revolutionary France …
“Baby airing”: To boost their health, new mothers in the early 1900s put their infants in windowsill baby cages
An explanation emerges for how the 12th century Paisley Abbey in Scotland could feature a gargoyle out of the film “Alien”
Turkish women had a legal right to divorce if their husbands forbade them from going to hammams, the traditional steam baths
Remarkable invention: fore-edge, the “disappearing painting” on the edge of a book, now an endangered art form
Steampunk triumphs in the Neverwas Haul, a Victorian house on wheels inspired by science fiction novels
Luke’s hideout in the latest “Star Wars” picture is actually an island off the coast of Ireland with an early-Christian monastery
Edinburgh Castle is so old that by the time of the first definite mention of it in literature, its founding was already shrouded in myth and legend