More mystery on Amelia Earhart, with rival theories of Japanese capture or a castaway’s lonely death
A historical Wyoming mining hamlet called Aladdin, population 15, was sold for $500,000
Before Elvis Presley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis there was Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Bobby Leach, first man to survive Niagara Falls barrel plunge, died after slipping on orange peel
Simon the cat received the Royal Navy’s honors after feline performance on the HMS Amethyst
Female bandit Pearl Hart: “I shall not be tried under a law in which my sex had no voice in making”
Uruk: The first major city in the world, built by King Gilgamesh
Swimming in searchlights: The cathedral of light of the Nazi rallies
Robert Capa, called “the greatest war photographer in the world”
The History of Balmoral Castle, Scottish Home of the British Royal Family
