Meet Carl Pettersson – The Swedish sailor who became king of an island in Papua New Guinea after he was shipwrecked in 1904
In 1838, a 14 year old boy broke into Queen Victoria’s Buckingham Palace while disguised as a chimney sweep then ran off with her underwear
The first time the Japanese people heard the Emperor’s voice was when he announced Japan’s surrender in WWII
The Vikings essentially invented the rap-battle during the fifth century
Strange justice: the animals who went on trial in the Middle Ages
During Roman times, salt was worth its weight in gold and soldiers were sometimes paid in salt, hence the word “salary”
In the final days of WWII, German Wehrmacht soldiers fought alongside US Army troops to defend a medieval castle from the Waffen SS
The Love story of Gracie Allen & George Burns
The Skuldelev ships – The 5 original Viking ships recovered from the waterway of Peberrenden at Skuldelev in 1962
The Last King of Paradise – Kalākaua was the last reigning king of Hawai and the first king to travel around the world
