Strangeness | Vintage News
Medmenham Abbey – Home of the Notorious Secret Society ‘Hellfire Club’
Back in the Days when Lobster was Cheaper than Beans
Despite early 1900s discrimination, an African American woman founded a bank in Virginia, becoming the first female bank president of any race in the U.S.
Youthful President JFK relied on old-fashioned rocking chairs to relieve back pain, and one just sold for $90,000
J. Marion Sims, the controversial “father of modern gynecology,” conducted experiments on slaves and did not use anesthesia
Barbara Jane Mackle – Kidnap Victim Spent more than 3 days in a Box Underground
From boxing gloves to bath clogs, one Roman’s trash is a museum’s treasure centuries later
An ancient bird with sharp teeth inherited from dinosaurs sheds new details on how our avian friends evolved
The decades-long mystery behind the “sailing stones” of Racetrack Playa in Death Valley may be solved
An Argentinean engineer could have developed a “rainmaking machine” as early as the 1930s, though there’s no trace of it today
