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
Industrial Wonders: The long, financially draining struggle to build the SS Great Eastern, largest ship put into water in 19th century
The inspiration for Leonard Cohen’s “So Long, Marianne” was a beautiful woman he met on a Greek island
After an African prince spent 40 years as a slave in U.S., he was freed but died shortly before reaching his homeland
Before Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis came Sister Rosetta Tharpe, considered the godmother of rock & roll
