Harriet Powers: One of the best-known African-American quiltmakers
Charles Dickens Museum holds the most important collection of Dickens’ personal belongings
Rebuses were a favorite form of heraldic expression used in the Middle Ages to denote surnames
Alice Liddell: The girl who inspired the children’s classic “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
Edward Carpenter – A largely forgotten Victorian era gay activist, poet, philosopher, anthologist, and feminist
Actually, Fortune Cookies were not part of the Chinese tradition
The first recorded use of the word “boredom” was found in a novel written by Charles Dickens
Picasso’s seminal painting “The Weeping Woman” was inspired by his lover Dora Maar, who suffered from depression
People have known that the Earth is round since the period of Ancient Greece
The fort of Masada: One of the most popular tourist attractions of Israel and a mass suicide hotspot
