The ancient Greek goddess Nike, representing victory and speed, inspired the Nike company logo
Onions were so important in the Middle Ages that people paid their rent with them and gave them as gifts
Swimming in searchlights: The cathedral of light of the Nazi rallies
Santa Cruz de Rodes, Catalonia: The martyr church that survived the black plague and pirates
Meet the real-life pirates of the Caribbean – not a Jack Sparrow among them
American doctors earned $40 million for whiskey prescriptions during the prohibition
Young Picasso had to burn his own paintings for warmth in his freezing Paris apartment
Hoop Rolling: A popular children’s pursuit since Ancient Greece, in the 1840s there was a movement to ban it
Thomas Lyle Williams created the first Maybelline mascara using petroleum jelly, coal dust, and ashes of a burnt cork
Built in the wrong place, this Australian lighthouse caused more than 20 shipwrecks
