Photographer Edward S. Curtis’ recordings of Native American traditions are only existing documentation for over 80 tribes
The 1796 “perfect wife” experiment of Thomas Day, inspired by Rousseau, took control freak to new levels
English brewery delivered bottles of beer door-to-door via horse and cart to keep people out of pubs
The first gold rush in the United States happened in North Carolina
Stalin’s daughter defected to U.S. in 1967, but returned to the Soviet Union in 1984
Johnny Appleseed: His trees invigorated the early frontier but his life was not a fairy tale
The crater that is growing in Siberia is a “climate time bomb”
Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane: the fierce queen of San Francisco’s psychedelic scene wanted to drug Richard Nixon
Abbott and Costello were the highest paid entertainers of WWII, but away from the spotlight life wasn’t so joyful
The Lady of Elche, a strange and striking ancient sculpture discovered in Spain in 1897, bears resemblance to Princess Leia
