Domagoj Valjak
Domagoj Valjak is one of the authors writing for The Vintage News
Articles by Domagoj Valjak:
After Umberto Eco was invited to submit a short detective story to a magazine, he instead wrote his first novel, “The Name of the Rose”
In 19th century, Clark Stanley patented snake oil and advertised it as a painkiller, saying he had studied its wonders with the Hopi healers
47 Minutes of Sinister Silence: The Solo Astronaut who Orbited the Far Side of the Moon
More than 80 years after she passed away, Marie Curie’s remains and personal items are still dangerously radioactive
Poe Toaster: For 75 years a mysterious man visited Edgar Allan Poe’s grave, poured himself a glass of cognac, and toasted the great writer
The famous Berlin specimen of Archaeopteryx, a transition between dinosaur and bird, was found by a farmer who sold it to buy a cow
“Hanging coffins” are remnants of an extinct funeral ritual of Asia, intended to keep the dead safe
Colt Peacemaker was the most popular gun in the Wild West, from Billy the Kid to Wyatt Earp
In early English common law, suicide was a punishable crime, and the dead were buried not in graveyards but at a crossroads, where the soul would meet “limbo”
Pet Dogs were Forbidden in the Capital of Iceland until 1984
