Nottingham hides a network of ancient man-made caves used as a tannery, house cellars & air raid shelters … Abandoned Spaces 9 years ago by Brad Smithfield
Suffragettes pinned a White Feather as a symbol of cowardice onto men not serving in WWI Strangeness 9 years ago by Brad Smithfield
While NASA spent a large amount of money developing the Space Pen, the Soviets just used pencils Administrative corner Featured 9 years ago by Tijana Radeska
The first flight attendants were all registered nurses, this requirement disappeared when many nurses left to enlist during WWII Glamour 9 years ago by Neil Patrick
The Ovitz family – A whole family of dwarfs who survived imprisonment at the Auschwitz concentration camp Administrative corner 9 years ago by Tijana Radeska
Apollo 11 lunar samples bag the focus of legal dispute after it was stolen and sold by former Space Center director Featured News 9 years ago by Ian Harvey
In 1600 one of the first Englishmen to land in Japan ended up a samurai and adviser to the Shogun Strangeness 9 years ago by Neil Patrick
France gave the daguerreotype photographic process as a free gift to the world except to Britain. They had to pay Administrative corner Glamour 9 years ago by Tijana Radeska
Seafaring was revolutionized by the British clock-maker who invented the first practical marine chronometer News Featured 9 years ago by David Goran