The Sacred Band of Thebes: an elite unit of the Theban army consisting of 150 pairs of male lovers
Paris Syndrome: a psychological disorder caused by disappointment
Joe DiMaggio placed a 20-year order of a half-dozen roses to be put on Marilyn Monroe’s grave three times a week
Jerusalem Syndrome: weird psychological disorder that affects tourists in the Holy City
Ludger Sylbaris: The man who survived a volcanic eruption because he got arrested for being drunk and got into a fight
Paulownia is also known as the ‘princess tree’ because it was once customary to plant a tree like that when a baby girl was born, and then to make it into a dresser as a wedding present when she married
Moritzburg Castle: the remarkable castle that lies in the middle of an artificial lake was the favorite hunting area of the kings and electors of Saxony
A Victorian theory that Mars was once artificially irrigated by a desperate advanced civilization
“The tree that owns itself” is a white oak in Athens, GA, which is widely assumed to legally own itself and the eight feet of land surrounding it
Hitler saw China and Japan as equals to Germany and even wrote admiringly: “I admit freely that their history is superior to our own”
