Viva la Vida: Expressing love in death, the cut-watermelon still lifes of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
The horrors of Australian sect “the Family”: 28 “adopted” children were beaten and given doses of LSD
The Ribchester Helmet, a Roman artifact discovered by 13-year-old playing behind house
The 16th century “Black Legend” propaganda demonizing Spain was helpful to its many rivals
The Bartini Beriev VVA-14: A 1970s Soviet aircraft designed to take off from the water
The Jonestown Massacre: Unfathomable mystery of why more than 900 people followed Jim Jones to Guyana
With not enough hospital beds for London’s smallpox sufferers, they moved patients to ships
Popeye the Sailor mania reached such heights, they couldn’t make the cartoons fast enough
The book wheel: A rotating reading desk for 16th century, perfect for those “tormented by gout”
The “shame” of Masabumi Hosono, the only Japanese passenger to survive the sinking of the RMS TitanicÂ
