Lady Mary Bankes defended her castle for three years with her daughters and maids, throwing hot coal and buckets of boiling water on the attackers News Featured 10 years ago by Goran Blazeski
There is a church in Rome lined with skeletons and a plaque that reads, “What you are now, we once were; what we are now, you shall be.” Strangeness 10 years ago by Brad Smithfield
The eerie ghost fleet at Suisun Bay: A collection of U.S. Navy and merchant reserve vessels that has been in the bay since the end of World War II News Abandoned Spaces 10 years ago by David Goran
The act of drinking tea in the UK was introduced in 1662 by a Portuguese queen News 10 years ago by Neil Patrick
Charvolants: the extremely elegant kite-drawn carriages Self-Propelled 10 years ago by Boban Docevski
The woman who invented the chocolate chip cookies gave the recipe to Nestlé in return for a lifetime supply of chocolate Featured 10 years ago by Tijana Radeska
Thomas Jefferson owned a sheep and kept it in front of the White House where it attacked several people and killed a small boy in 1808 Strangeness 10 years ago by Alex A
Until World War II, tea bricks were still used as a form of currency in Siberia Strangeness 10 years ago by Neil Patrick
The fork came to Italy before any other European country because of pasta Strangeness 10 years ago by Neil Patrick
The Queen’s Hamlet: Peek inside Marie-Antoinette’s fairy tale Rustic Village at Versailles, where she loved to act like a “simple peasant” Strangeness 10 years ago by Alex A