Victor Hugo wrote “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” in part to raise awareness of undervalued Gothic architecture in Paris
The Werther Effect: A spike of emulation suicides after a widely publicized suicide following Goethe’s novel “The Sorrows of Young Werther”
The bizarre practice of foot-binding was once a symbol of beauty in China
“The Turk” was a fake chess-playing automaton that defeated Benjamin Franklin and Napoleon Bonaparte
Felix Dadaev- The unfortunate body double of Joseph Stalin
The Antikythera mechanism, an ancient analog “computer”, said to be “more valuable than the Mona Lisa”
JFK’s sister Rosemary was given one of the first lobotomies
The Crazy Horse Monument in South Dakota: Started in 1948, may take another century to complete
Fatal fashion: deadliest fashion and beauty trends in history
Roscoe Arbuckle – The man who mentored Charlie Chaplin and discovered artists such as Buster Keaton and Bob Hope
