Two friends with a metal detector were thrilled to discover Roman coins in a Suffolk field, but their joy lasted only 24 hours News Lifestyle Strangeness
In WWI, India provided the largest volunteer army in world history, and its numbers were crucial to the war’s outcome Strangeness Battlefields News
Personal diary of Samuel Pepys is one of the primary sources of the Great Fire of London in 1666, destroying 80,000 homes in three days News Lifestyle Strangeness
Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier’s 20-year marriage seemed perfect, but affairs, artistic rivalry, and mental instability destroyed it Glamour Lifestyle News Vintage Hollywood
The Oxford Electric Bell, one of the world’s oldest experiments, is powered by a battery working since the 19th century, but no one knows how News Self-Propelled Strangeness
Eliot Ness, the Untouchable agent who battled Al Capone, died a broke alcoholic at 55 News Lifestyle Strangeness Vintage Hollywood
The most dangerous set in cinema history: in 1931, 27 people lost their lives while filming the movie “The Viking” Vintage Hollywood News
Eat three eggs per day and no spouse required: the secret to longevity as revealed by one of the world’s oldest humans News Lifestyle Strangeness
Hours before his death, Edgar Allan Poe was found in the gutter, disheveled and raving Strangeness Glamour News
Ian Brady, serial killer behind the Moors Murders near Manchester in the mid-1960s, died in prison at age 79 News Lifestyle Strangeness
Thanks to new imaging technology, archaeologists discover sophisticated network of Maya settlements, concealed by jungles of Guatemala until now Archeology Abandoned Spaces News