All good things came out at the Columbian Expo – Hershey chocolate, Juicy Fruit gum, Pabst Blue Ribbon… you name it! Featured Glamour
Emperor Nero’s Golden Palace had a room with a rotating ceiling that dropped perfume and rose petals down on its inhabitants Strangeness
Cash in the Attica: Archaeologists discover ancient Athens stored all of its money in the ROOF of the Parthenon Featured News
Back to the future – In 1880 Alexander Graham Bell invented the photophone, the world’s first device for wireless communications Administrative corner
Adrian Carton de Wiart – shot in the head, stomach, face, ankle, hip, leg and ear. He said he enjoyed the war! News Featured
The sad life of William Chester Minor – one of the largest contributors to the Oxford English Dictionary who was held in a lunatic asylum for murder at the time Administrative corner Featured
Sales tax tokens – during the Great Depression, people used small “coins” worth fractions of a cent to avoid paying too much extra sales tax on small purchases due to rounding Strangeness