Heroin, prescribed for coughs and headaches, was a trademarked medicine produced by Bayer company
In a Chicago museum is a 3,000-year-old Egyptian bust of a woman that reminds people of Michael Jackson
In 1925, two medical students spent 1,500 hours dissecting a nervous system while keeping it intact, their project today valued at $1 million
Stalin’s daughter defected to U.S. in 1967, but returned to the Soviet Union in 1984
Turkish women had a legal right to divorce if their husbands forbade them from going to hammams, the traditional steam baths
The most picturesque and best preserved streets in England, from Roman age to Tudor time
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
