Séance shock queen: Spiritualist Eva Carrière and the era of ectoplasm
The crater that is growing in Siberia is a “climate time bomb”
From warship to conveying flour: A Swedish ship lost 350 years ago offers up secrets
Basil Zaharoff, the merchant of death who became Europe’s richest man
In 1916, a Tennessee town insisted on executing a circus elephant named Big Mary
For Mr. T., there are good reasons for his gold chains, hairstyle, earrings, in fact for everything
Evidence of a 14,000-year-old settlement found in western Canada
Eva Mozes Kor, a Holocaust survivor and a Mengele twin, chose to forgive the Nazis
With his railroad, Cecil Rhodes pushed to make “Cape to Cairo” a reality for Great Britain
Jean-Paul Sartre’s bad mescaline trip led to the philosopher being followed by imaginary crabs for years
