Bombshell Mae West did not begin her career in films until she was almost 40, became second highest paid person in America
“Evacuate the children, put up the blackout curtains, kill the cat”: The mass pet killings of 1939
The idea of “the Ring” existed centuries before Tolkien’s epic saga
Louis Cartier created the wristwatch so that aviator Santos-Dumont could check his performance while flying over Paris
Derinkuyu: the advanced underground city in Turkey using ventilation shafts that could date as far back as 15th century BC
The “lethal beauty” of Evelyn Nesbit and the very first “trial of the century”
“Constructed” by freight trains, Ukraine’s Tunnel of Love is now an alluring form of green architecture
The sandwich was named after an 18th century earl who didn’t want to take a break from gambling to eat
Sir Anthony Hopkins won the Oscar for role of psychopath Hannibal Lecter with only 16 minutes of screen time and an unblinking stare
Trademark of a culture: The horse-drawn Vardo wagons used by the Romani people of Britain
