Santa Cruz de Rodes, Catalonia: The martyr church that survived the black plague and pirates
Meet the real-life pirates of the Caribbean – not a Jack Sparrow among them
American doctors earned $40 million for whiskey prescriptions during the prohibition
Young Picasso had to burn his own paintings for warmth in his freezing Paris apartment
Hoop Rolling: A popular children’s pursuit since Ancient Greece, in the 1840s there was a movement to ban it
Thomas Lyle Williams created the first Maybelline mascara using petroleum jelly, coal dust, and ashes of a burnt cork
Built in the wrong place, this Australian lighthouse caused more than 20 shipwrecks
All King Eric did was cause conflicts and create enemies, and when he was about to be deposed, he fled the kingdom and became a pirate
Two mummies in the British Museum reveal some of the world’s oldest known tattoos, including that of a bull
Herman Kahn: The physicist, nuclear-war strategist, and Cold War “scenario planner” who inspired Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove”
