Taken in 1826, “View from the Window at Le Gras” is the world’s first photograph
Sufi mystics’ reverence for coffee led to Yemen’s world monopoly on bean production—for 300 years
Three years in a freezing lake turned a dead woman’s flesh to soap, but her thug husband didn’t get away with murder
Hiroo Onoda: the legendary Japanese holdout in the Philippines who surrendered 29 years after his country capitulated
Roger Fenton, the very first war photographer, captured the grim reality of the Crimean War
There is an Arctic town in Norway where it is illegal to die and burials are strictly forbidden
Albert Göring, the brother of Hermann Göring, was an anti-Nazi activist who helped hundreds of Jews and assisted the Czech resistance
Sweyn Forkbeard: the king of Denmark ruled England for five weeks, but his bloodline can be found in today’s British royalty
Salisbury Cathedral could possess the world’s oldest working mechanical clock, still capable of chiming the hour
Dazzling 1920s wedding dresses: epitome of glamour, but in modern silhouette
