Strangeness | Vintage News
In early English common law, suicide was a punishable crime, and the dead were buried not in graveyards but at a crossroads, where the soul would meet “limbo”
Barefoot and starved, Spartan boys underwent grueling combat training to join the most formidable army of all time
The “lethal beauty” of Evelyn Nesbit and the very first “trial of the century”
After almost 80 years, 31 rolls of film discovered showing World War II through the lens of an unknown American soldier
Neanderthal artists believed responsible for 65,000-year-old paintings in Spain, which leads to new thinking about Neanderthals’ sophistication
“Blind Tom” – Born a Slave, at Age 10 Became the Highest Paid Pianist of his Time
How Sequoyah, inspired by “talking leaves,” invented the Cherokee writing system
Monks with expertise: Lindores Abbey in Scotland is the spiritual cradle of whisky
Archaeologists who were real-life Indiana Jones
Chloroform, arsenic, and suspicious family doctors: Lady poisoners of the Victorian era
