Scientists are now able to track the production of coins in ancient Rome by studying samples of Greenland’s ice News
Sickeningly sweet: The Great Molasses Flood of 1919, moving at 35 mph, toppled buildings and trapped people in Boston’s North End News
The Colombian army hired a marketing wizard to produce a radio hit single with a hidden message, intended for hostages held in jungle News
Napoleon and the Battle of the Rabbits: Faced with the implacable animal horde, the Emperor beat a hasty retreat News
Dutch researchers decipher secret pages of Anne Frank’s diary, containing “dirty jokes” and thoughts about intimacy News
An Australian railway man saved more than 2 million babies—including his own grandchild—with a simple donation of blood Lifestyle News Strangeness
Vikings in our Midst: the Jorvik Viking Centre brings the past to life based on archaeological findings News
King Adolf Frederick has lost his crown: the Swedish king who ate himself to disaster in 1771 Strangeness Lifestyle News
A serious plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln in Baltimore before he took office in 1861 revolved around the city’s police chief News Strangeness
As the official witch of Los Angeles County in 1968, Louise Huebner led chants for the first gigantic Spellcast News
1947 was the year that a pilot spotted “saucer-like discs” in Washington and a rancher in Roswell, New Mexico, found some mighty strange debris News