The Wacko Story Behind the Expression “It’s Raining Cats and Dogs”
Violet Jessop: The nurse who survived all three disasters aboard the sister ships: The Titanic, Britannic, and Olympic
For three months in 1964, Vladimir Nabokov wrote down his dreams every morning, pursuing a theory that time flows backward
Barbed wire made possible America’s original social network, when news traveled throughout the countryside on a telephone party line
Kola Superdeep Borehole: The deepest man-made hole in the world
Joseph Pistone, alias Donnie Brasco, infiltrated the Bonanno crime family as undercover FBI agent
In mid-1800s, the terrain and climate of American Southwest posed a daunting challenge, so a solution was found: Buy camels
Bette Davis and Joan Crawford :The epic Hollywood rivalry that made feud-watching fabulous: Bette Davis and Joan CrawfordÂ
The Great Blue Hole of Belize, one of top diving sites in the world, became famous thanks to Jacques Cousteau
In the 1930s, financial guru Sylvia Porter hid her female identity with the byline “S. F. Porter”
