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
The Ravens of the Tower of London: Guardians of the Crown & Her Majesty’s Royal Palace
The Hiddensee treasure: The largest discovery of Viking jewellery in Germany
The Story of Ishi, the last member of the Yahi tribe widely acclaimed in his time as the “last wild Indian” in America
Carl Jung’s “Red Book” was published in 2008, almost 50 years after his death: it explores his own psychotic experiences and the darkest depths of the unconscious
