The first roller-skates were invented in 1760 by a man called John-Joseph Merlin
How The Beatles brought the Soviet Union down and destroyed communism
It is said that Cleopatra, Queen of Ancient Egypt, took baths in donkey milk to preserve her beauty and youth
The Benben stone is an obelisk-like stone that was symbolic of the primeval mound of creation in Heliopolis
Charles Frederick Worth – The father of the Haute Couture industry
Baroness Moura Budberg: the Mata Hari of Russia
“Heil Honey I’m Home” – A sitcom about Adolf Hitler was taken off the air after the first episode
The highly distinctive Clermont-Ferrand Cathedral in France is a Gothic cathedral built entirely in black lava stone
A 16th-century cathedral carved with contemporary symbols
Photos from the turn of the century show Bedouins, the “desert dwellers” of the Middle East
