The extremely elegant kite-drawn carriages called Charvolants
Viva la Vida: Expressing love in death, the cut-watermelon still lifes of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
People used magic to get out of Roman toilets alive and other revelations about daily life in ancient world
A letter written on Titanic by a passenger who drowned hits record $166,000 at auction
The “Apache Joan of Arc” and the other courageous Native American women of the 19th century
A castle built by the Moors, taken by the Vikings, and conquered by the King of Portugal
Most of Bob Ross’s 30,000 “happy little trees and clouds” were donated to charity and fundraisers
A century before Beatlemania, there was Lisztomania
Jack the Baboon Was a Smart and Dependable Railway Signalman
Cambodia’s Angkor Wat used far greater amounts of stone than all the Egyptian pyramids combined
