Thames Town: Chinese town modelled after English market towns, with cobbled streets, Victorian terraces and pubs News
Joe DiMaggio placed a 20-year order of a half-dozen roses to be put on Marilyn Monroe’s grave three times a week News
Paulownia is also known as the ‘princess tree’ because it was once customary to plant a tree like that when a baby girl was born, and then to make it into a dresser as a wedding present when she married News
“The tree that owns itself” is a white oak in Athens, GA, which is widely assumed to legally own itself and the eight feet of land surrounding it News
In the 18-th century, one could pay admission to the zoo in London by bringing a cat or a dog to feed the lions News
For decades scholars have been studying Plimpton 322, a clay tablet from around 1800 BCE that contains complex mathematical inscriptions Featured News
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Thousand-year-old Pueblo compound provides DNA evidence suggesting that Chacoan culture was matrilineal Featured News
Sixty-nine years later, the Indian government opens investigations into the disappearance of three conspirators in the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi Featured News