Dresses from the sky: WW2 wedding gowns made from silk and nylon parachutes News Battlefields Glamour Lifestyle Strangeness
War Plan Red: In a hypothetical war between the United States and Britain approved in 1930, the first step was to attack Canada Strangeness Battlefields
“Hanging coffins” are remnants of an extinct funeral ritual of Asia, intended to keep the dead safe News Interiors Strangeness
Strange but True: “The tree that owns itself” is a white oak in Athens, GA, which is widely assumed to legally own itself and the eight feet of land surrounding it News
Aubrey Beardsley and his “morbid imagination” was the most controversial artist of the Art Nouveau era News Lifestyle
Zhangjiajie National Forest Park in China inspired the floating Hallelujah Mountains of “Avatar,” though the Chinese had their problems with the film News Glamour Interiors
Grandma Gatewood continues to inspire as the first woman who solo hiked the 2,168-mile Appalachian Trail Lifestyle News Strangeness
Vinnie Ream won the competition to create a sculpture of Lincoln, but whispers and doubts shadowed her efforts at carving a “man of sorrow” Battlefields Lifestyle News Strangeness