“I am simply wild about you”: Secrecy electrified the affair of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, stars of the Golden Age
In WWI, India provided the largest volunteer army in world history, and its numbers were crucial to the war’s outcome
Personal diary of Samuel Pepys is one of the primary sources of the Great Fire of London in 1666, destroying 80,000 homes in three days
Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier’s 20-year marriage seemed perfect, but affairs, artistic rivalry, and mental instability destroyed it
Man Found on Beach, Clothes Labels Removed, Strange Written Phrase in his Pocket
The Buzludzha monument: once Bulgaria’s tribute to communism, now a bizarre ruin that fascinates tourists
President Abraham Lincoln influenced the nation even in death, when his embalming made the practice more accepted
“Win one for the Gipper”: The Hollywood career of Ronald Reagan offered clues to his presidential style
Tiny Dinosaur with Iridescent Rainbow Feathers Discovered in China
The Oxford Electric Bell, one of the world’s oldest experiments, is powered by a battery working since the 19th century, but no one knows how
