Mark Twain, the writer of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was a prominent abolitionist and a women’s suffrage activist
Mexico’s “Olmec Colossal Heads” are a mystery as to their age and their method of construction
Bohemian Club is a 145-years old male-only leisure club for the wealthy and powerful
Miserere: The song written in the 1630s, performed only in the Sistine Chapel, was kept secret by the Vatican for 150 years
Bill Millin, the British army piper who played his bagpipes on Sword Beach during D-Day while under enemy fire, German soldiers didn’t shoot him because they thought he was crazy
Charlie Chaplin was nearly assassinated in Japan in 1932
The Navy tug USS Conestoga is discovered only 30 miles off the coast of San Francisco, 90 years after it left the U.S. west coast and failed to reach Pearl Harbor
The Arms of Skanderbeg: the only remaining belongings of the Albanian national hero Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg
Copper mining remnants discovered in Timna Valley, Israel may hold the key to the history behind Bible accounts of Solomon’s mines and King David’s military conflicts
The Lafayette Theater in Harlem became the first major theater which did not segregate African-American audiences in New York
