Strangeness | Vintage News
Calico, in San Bernardino County: Miners, gunslingers, and brothel-keepers were all drawn there by the California Silver Rush
Los Angeles County sheriff’s investigators say Robert Wagner is a “person of interest” in the tragic death of Natalie Wood in 1981
Four shark killings in 1916 triggered a tsunami of hysteria that inspired Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster “Jaws”
Because Stanislav Petrov reported a computer malfunction in 1983, we know him today as “The man who saved the world”
In 1982, 150 Icelanders went to the NATO base in Keflavík to protest the treatment of Elves
How Hedy Lamarr, a Hollywood beauty of the Golden Age, became a first-class inventor, creating a visionary device that led to Wi-Fi and GPS
The sugar industry paid Harvard scientists $50,000 in the 1960s to blame fat for the nation’s heart-disease problems
Over his lifetime, President John F. Kennedy received last rites four times before his assassination in 1963
Riga draws attention as the city with the largest collection of Art Nouveau buildings in the world
A “Super Mercedes” that Hitler used receives a $7 million bid at auction, but that was not enough
