Strangeness | Vintage News
In 1925, two medical students spent 1,500 hours dissecting a nervous system while keeping it intact, their project today valued at $1 million
Stalin’s daughter defected to U.S. in 1967, but returned to the Soviet Union in 1984
Turkish women had a legal right to divorce if their husbands forbade them from going to hammams, the traditional steam baths
The most picturesque and best preserved streets in England, from Roman age to Tudor time
The ancient Greek goddess Nike, representing victory and speed, inspired the Nike company logo
Onions were so important in the Middle Ages that people paid their rent with them and gave them as gifts
American doctors earned $40 million for whiskey prescriptions during the prohibition
Hoop Rolling: A popular children’s pursuit since Ancient Greece, in the 1840s there was a movement to ban it
All King Eric did was cause conflicts and create enemies, and when he was about to be deposed, he fled the kingdom and became a pirate
Herman Kahn: The physicist, nuclear-war strategist, and Cold War “scenario planner” who inspired Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove”
