St Edward’s Church, Stow-on-the-Wold, praised for its architecture, wins special attention for a door that some believe inspired J. R. R. Tolkien Interiors Featured News
Lord Walter Rothschild drove a carriage pulled by six zebras through London just to prove a point Strangeness News
The legend of the headless horseman originates with Celtic beliefs about a harbinger of death who came to speak one’s name Strangeness
The Grande Armée: The only photos of veterans of the Napoleonic Wars wearing their original uniforms and insignia News
Britain: The Principality of Sealand a pirate “micro-state” & band of Dutch & German mercenaries armed with assault rifles and charged the platform with a speedboat, jet skis, & helicopters Battlefields News Self-Propelled
The Collyer brothers were found amid 120 tons of belongings, including 250,000 books and several bowling balls, in their Fifth Avenue mansion Strangeness
The Kennewick Man, a highly contested set of 8,500-year-old human remains, most closely matches DNA of modern-day Native Americans Archeology News