Domagoj Valjak
Domagoj Valjak is one of the authors writing for The Vintage News
Articles by Domagoj Valjak:
Prolific composer John Williams of “Star Wars,” “Jaws,” and “Harry Potter” fame has received 51 Oscar nominations so far, more than any living person
Young Sean Connery earned the respect of a notorious Edinburgh gang by beating up six of its members at once
Enough, already. The Skylab mutiny was the first and only labor strike in space
Death in space: after the three astronauts of Soyuz 11 became heroes of the Soviet Union, catastrophe struck
The USS Akron plunge into the ocean: an airship disaster worse than the Hindenburg tragedy
An angry aristocrat of the Zeppelin family once forced Led Zeppelin to change their name to play a single show in Copenhagen
The beak-nosed plague-doctor mask that continues to terrify was invented in the 17th century because of bad smells
In 1974, the legendary pharaoh Ramesses II was issued a valid Egyptian passport so that his 3,000-year-old mummy could be flown to Paris for necessary repair
Visionary architect Antoni Gaudí never managed to finish the magnificent Sagrada Familia because he was hit by a tram and, mistaken as a beggar, left on the street
A story written in 1886 predicted the 1912 “Titanic” disaster with eerie accuracy
