News | Vintage News
Agatha Christie inspired by her own train delay to write “Murder on the Orient Express”
The Antikythera mechanism, an ancient analog “computer”, said to be “more valuable than the Mona Lisa”
The Library of Trinity College in Dublin: A 300-year-old institution, home to over 200,000 books
Georges Méliès, the magic-minded dreamer who in 1902 filmed “The Trip to the Moon” and showed us what movies are capable of
Loving vs. Virginia: The interracial couple that helped eliminate anti-miscegenation laws still on the books in 1967
The Edwardian-with-a-twist Teddy Boy clothing style: the men who followed the fashion in the 1950s were considered dangerous
Robert Cornelius: The man who took the first selfie in the world in 1839
The makers of “Alien” had everything designed except for the terrifying being itself and for that, they turned to H. R. Giger
The Wild West era, a period of myth-making cowboys, gunslingers, and saloon madames, actually lasted only 30 years
“The Old Man and the Pool”: After Ava Gardner went for a swim at his Havana house, Ernest Hemingway issued an unusual edict
