Alex the parrot is the only non-human to ask the existential question- “What color am I?” Strangeness
Blists Hill Victorian Town – the open-air museum of an industrial site from the 18th century Featured
Norbert Pearlroth was the sole researcher for “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” who never missed a deadline in 52 years and was wrong only once Lifestyle
Beautiful women and extraordinary pilots awarded 65 years after their service in WW2 Glamour Lifestyle
The House of Wisdom contained so many books that the Tigris River turned black from the ink when all of them were destroyed Interiors Lifestyle
The giant couple- Anna Haining Bates was 8 feet (2.41 meters) tall & her husband was just as tall Lifestyle
Gottfried Knoche – the doctor who invented an embalming fluid and mummified his body without taking out the organs Lifestyle Strangeness
The romantic eccentric Dr, fell in love with a dying patient & lived with her corpse Lifestyle Strangeness
The man who inspired Spielberg’s “The Terminal”- lived as a refugee in a departure lounge Lifestyle Strangeness