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 Titanic
The life of a 19th century “ornamental hermit”: One broke his contract, snuck off to the pub
What happened at the crossroads: Blues legend and his deal with the Devil
Saltford Manor: It’s believed to be the oldest continuously inhabited private house in England
Covering stains on walls with painted flowers turned village in Poland into a fairy-tale wonder
