The Monumental Cemetery: An extraordinary open-air museum and one of the largest cemeteries in Milan
Louis Armstrong popularized scat singing after he dropped the lyric sheet while recording the song “Heebie Jeebies” and started improvising syllables
The remarkable sights of the Thikse Monastery
Room 101, the torture chamber in George Orwell’s 1984, was named after a conference room at the BBC where Orwell would have to sit through tortuously boring meetings
Gorgon myth imagery appears on coins and artwork from Ancient Greece to modern day
John Hay’s Open Door Policy set the cornerstone of US foreign affairs and promoted free trade and state integrity in China
The Sacred Band: This elite force of the Theban army was made up of pairs of fighters devoted to each other
Nazis who assisted in the Holocaust and what happened to them
Audrey Munson – America’s First Supermodel and the first actress to appear nude in film spent the last 65 years of her life in a psychiatric asylum
Las Vegas casino manager Carl Cohen became a local folk hero after he knocked the caps off Frank Sinatra’s front teeth
