Radium Girls, female factory workers exposed to radium poisoning without their knowledge, were even encouraged to lick radium paintbrushes Strangeness
The year 1816, the “Year Without a Summer,” saw floods, food riots, gorgeous sunsets, and “Frankenstein” News Strangeness
During the California Gold Rush, an English would-be prospector published and sold 100,000 copies of his satirical Miners’ Ten Commandments Strangeness
The Yakhchāl was an ancient Persian “refrigerator” that stored food and even ice long before electricity was invented Interiors Strangeness
Fantastic fossil find: a dinosaur with swan-like neck and crocodile teeth that walked like a duck and swam like a penguin Strangeness Archeology News
The Antikythera mechanism, an ancient analog “computer”, said to be “more valuable than the Mona Lisa” News Strangeness
Expert re-creates the shoes of 5,300-year-old Ötzi the Iceman, down to the bearskin soles and hay-stuffed lining Fashion Lifestyle Strangeness
Nan Madol: a mysterious city called Atlantis where underwater “platinum coffins” were supposedly discovered by the Japanese Abandoned Spaces Strangeness
Georges Méliès, the magic-minded dreamer who in 1902 filmed “The Trip to the Moon” and showed us what movies are capable of Lifestyle News Strangeness Vintage Hollywood
The Doll Family, four dwarf siblings who found success in Hollywood, not only in “The Wizard of Oz” but in another classic, “Freaks” Glamour Strangeness Vintage Hollywood