At the University of Leeds, J.R.R. Tolkien founded the Viking Club, known for poetry and enthusiastic drinking News Interiors Lifestyle
A Dutch resistance leader, caught by Nazis, threw himself out a window while tied to a chair News Battlefields
His knowledge of rare beetles saved a priest-scientist from the guillotine during the French Revolution News
Gary Cooper refused the role in “Gone with the Wind” and thought the film would be a massive failure Glamour News Vintage Hollywood
In 1959, Czechoslovak astronomers founded the world’s first automated meteorite-tracking program Lifestyle News Strangeness
“The Wild Hunt”: an eerie painting of 1889 that some say predicts the rise of Hitler & Nazi Germany Battlefields News Self-Propelled Strangeness
Barry White, singer of romantic tunes, turned away from a youth in a criminal gang Glamour Lifestyle News
Roald Dahl, obsessed with Roma culture, worked in a traditional wagon turned writing shed News Glamour Interiors Vintage Hollywood