Harriet, the Galapagos tortoise, lived to be 175 and was reportedly collected by Charles Darwin in 1835 Featured News
The Stanley Hotel served as a model for the fictional Overlook Hotel in Stephen King’s novel “The Shining” Featured News
The Monumental Cemetery: An extraordinary open-air museum and one of the largest cemeteries in Milan Featured News
The Sacred Band: This elite force of the Theban army was made up of pairs of fighters devoted to each other Featured News
In the Middle Ages, devil-fearing Christians killed cats, which carried the unintended consequence of increasing the rat population and the spread of the Black Death Featured News
The Holy Thorn Reliquary: one of the greatest relics of medieval Christianity for which it is believed to hold a single thorn from the Crown of Thorns Featured News