Arthur Guinness signed a 9000-year lease for an abandoned brewery in Dublin: Guinness is still brewed at St. James Gate
1,000 year-old Viking sword found just lying on the ground in Iceland
Cornwall’s Museum of Witchcraft & Magic houses 3,000 objects and 7,000 books but even so is not as interesting as its founder, Cecil Williamson
In early English common law, suicide was a punishable crime, and the dead were buried not in graveyards but at a crossroads, where the soul would meet “limbo”
Barefoot and starved, Spartan boys underwent grueling combat training to join the most formidable army of all time
The Quirky Fighting Style of Bartitsu – The Art of Gentlemen’s Defense
The “lethal beauty” of Evelyn Nesbit and the very first “trial of the century”
A college archivist cataloging old books found an almanac with strands of George Washington’s gray hair tucked in an envelope
After almost 80 years, 31 rolls of film discovered showing World War II through the lens of an unknown American soldier
Neanderthal artists believed responsible for 65,000-year-old paintings in Spain, which leads to new thinking about Neanderthals’ sophistication
