“Babe would understand” Stan Laurel was too ill to attend the funeral of his best buddy Oliver Hardy
Bea Arthur: The former US Marine WWII truck driver who became a “Golden Girl”
Arthur Rimbaud: a sensitive 19th century poet turned mercenary & gun runner in Ethiopia
Turkish women had a legal right to divorce if their husbands forbade them from going to hammams, the traditional steam baths
When Julius Caesar brought the first giraffe to Europe, the perplexed Romans called it a “cameleopard”
Paul Newman was delighted to learn he’d landed on President Richard Nixon’s “enemies list”
New study shows Earth’s first trees had a more complex structure than trees today
Vaporwave: A retro-futuristic subculture that waxes nostalgic for the 1990s while mocking smooth jazz elevator music
The Louisiana Purchase: Napoleon, eager for money to wage war on Britain, sold the land to U.S.–and a British bank financed the sale
“Constructed” by freight trains, Ukraine’s Tunnel of Love is now an alluring form of green architecture
