Lester B. Pearson – the Canadian who introduced the publicly funded system of universal health care and the Maple Leaf flag
The Lobster War – When Brazil and France argued whether lobsters crawl or swim
When Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud met for the first time, they talked for thirteen hours, virtually without stopping
Walter Freeman, who championed lobotomy in the US, was touring with his “lobotomobile” demonstrating the procedure
“For sale: baby shoes, never worn” – Did or did not Hemingway wrote the shortest, saddest story of six words
Purchased as a gift for Empress Catherine the Great, the Peacock Clock is the only large example of 18th century robotics to have survived unaltered into the 21st century
A retired carpenter has provided a plausible solution to a 3000-year-old architectural mystery
The remains of the Winchester Palace: once one of the largest and most important buildings in all of medieval London
Tomb raiders aside, the Cave of Skulls may hold the secrets of the sacred Dead Sea Scrolls
The Colombo crime family threatened the production of the cult movie The Godfather
