When John Gotti ordered the murder of his boss, “Big Paul” Castellano, outside Sparks Steak House, it became “the hit of the century”
When Athelhampton House’s owner died in 1598, his four daughters equally divided the manor and it remained divided for 250 years
5 Causes of the Great Depression – Economic Domino Effect
Elvis’ Life Overseas in the Army – “People were Expecting me to Mess Up”
Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall, & the Hollywood marriage that nobody expected to last
Harriet, the Galapagos tortoise, lived to be 175, was reportedly collected by Charles Darwin in 1835
Kalyazin Bell Tower is a symbol of Russia before communism: a lonely bell tower on a man-made island in a man-made lake
The Doll Family, four dwarf siblings who found success in Hollywood, not only in “The Wizard of Oz” but in another classic, “Freaks”
Hattie McDaniel of “Gone With the Wind,” the first African-American to win an Oscar, battled discrimination even at the Academy Awards ceremony
A dance to die for: The mysterious phenomenon of Medieval Europe that drove people to dance until collapse
