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
The history of the gymnasium: from a school for naked exercise to wellness empire
The Rai Stones are huge stone wheels used as currency on the island of Yap
Séance shock queen: Spiritualist Eva Carrière and the era of ectoplasm
“Sam told me what to do,” a Yonkers postal worker named David Berkowitz told police who accused him of serial murders
Astounding discovery: There was life on Earth some 3.5 billion years ago in oxygen-devoid environment
When Julius Caesar brought the first giraffe to Europe, the perplexed Romans called it a “cameleopard”
The wooden churches on the wind-swept island off Chiloe are the churches at the end of the world
Turkish women had a legal right to divorce if their husbands forbade them from going to hammams, the traditional steam baths
