Domagoj Valjak
Domagoj Valjak is one of the authors writing for The Vintage News
Articles by Domagoj Valjak:
Victor of Aveyron: A feral child who supposedly lived in the French wilderness until he was 12
The ancient mysteries of Hermes Trismegistus and the Emerald Tablet have inspired and baffled both alchemists and philosophers for centuries
Eli Wallach almost got killed three times during the filming of Sergio Leone’s “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”
The grand but flawed 17th century Swedish warship “Vasa” sank on her maiden voyage, but in 1961 the ship was completely recovered
Enough, already. The Skylab mutiny was the first and only labor strike in space
In Ancient Egypt, cats were mummified and buried with jewelry, and harming a cat was an offense that could be punished with death
“Brave New World” author Aldous Huxley requested LSD on his deathbed, a request granted by his wife
J. R. R. Tolkien named the kind and protective hobbit Samwise Gamgee after a pioneering British surgeon
The tragedy of Elizabeth Shoumatoff’s unfinished portrait of President Franklin Roosevelt
The Chinese Sleeping Beauty: analyzing the best preserved mummy ever discovered, scientists know what she ate hours before her death
