Ancient Syrian bitumen found in English burial mound
Cowdray House: One of the most important early Tudor houses in England
“Waterloo” was not the first Eurovision song from ABBA
Hampi: The former capital of the Vijayanagara Empire is one of the most magnificent sites in India
A dilapidated pre-fabricated shack in south-east London sold for $1,153,680
007 Sean Connery, wore a hairpiece in every Bond movie he was in
Holker Hall: One of the grandest privately owned country houses
Chaplin’s The Great Dictator might be the most popular, but it was The Three Stooges who first openly mocked Hitler on film
Samuel Morse developed the single-wire telegraph after he had missed his wife’s funeral due to the extremely slow mail delivery
Henrietta Lacks – The African American woman whose cancer cells were the source of the immortalized HeLa cell line
