Beethoven’s “Elise” was the name of Therese Malfatti, incorrectly transcribed because of Beethoven’s bad handwriting
King Ludwig II of Bavaria or “The Swan King” commissioned the Neuschwanstein Castle and paid for it with his own means
Before becoming the founder of the Impressionist movement, Claude Monet was an aspiring caricature artist
The mysterious carvings in the Royston cave
The Day the Music Died: The Plane Crash That Killed Buddy Holly
Archaeologists rediscover one of the oldest known Peruvian geoglyphs, that of a 2,000-year-old killer whale once worshiped as a deity
When Rudolph Valentino died in 1926, over 100,000 people swarmed the streets of New York City in riots during the funeral and several women committed suicide
Kilroy was here – mysterious WWII origins of the first viral graffiti meme
In 1980, chemist Glenn Seaborg solved a centuries-old problem in alchemy and turned a non-precious metal into gold
That time when the US Delta Force blasted Van Halen, The Clash, and AC/DC’s music for three days to force Manuel Noriega out of the Vatican Embassy
