Shot and blinded, a pigeon named Cher Ami continued her flight and saved 197 American soldiers at the end of World War I
Glenn Gould was an eccentric virtuoso who insisted on his childhood piano chair throughout his entire career and hummed loudly while playing
In Ancient Rome, suicide was allowed as a form of euthanasia except if you were a soldier or a slave
Surviving examples of vintage household products manufactured during WWI
After Umberto Eco was invited to submit a short detective story to a magazine, he instead wrote his first novel, “The Name of the Rose”
Taliban blowing up 4th-century statues of Buddha leads to caves filled with 5th-century artwork
The Pirate Cemetery of Madagascar was the off-season home for an estimated 1,000 pirates
The heads of Easter Island have bodies which have been covered up by landslides
The beautiful GM Futurliner – only nine survive & one sold for $4 million
Haeneyo: The last generation of Korea’s real-life mermaids
