Measuring 8 ft 11 inches, Robert Pershing Wadlow, the tallest man in recorded history, surpassed his father by age 8 Strangeness
Vikings who may have served as elite guard of Byzantine emperor left runic inscriptions in the Hagia Sophia News Strangeness
Chillingham Castle in Northumberland: a centuries-old witness of wars, deaths, and tortures Strangeness
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Powerful storm exposes the hull of Revolutionary War-era ship in Maine and tears apart one of George Washington’s trees in Virginia News
A mysterious castle found at the bottom of Turkey’s Lake Van causing debate over whether it was occupied by 3,000-year-old Urartu kingdom or a medieval society News
Plaza de España in Seville enthralls visitors and adorns film sets, standing in for Planet Naboo in “Star Wars” movie Lifestyle
Jimi Hendrix chose the U.S. Army over a jail term for auto theft, played his guitar endlessly at Fort Campbell News