The Erdapfel, the oldest surviving terrestrial globe, does not show the Americas but it does include the mythical Saint Brendan’s Island Strangeness News
Batman’s real name fused Scottish royalty with an American Revolutionary War hero Strangeness Glamour Lifestyle News
The Orphan Train Movement: a 19th century foster-home program that sent 200,000 homeless children from the East Coast to the Midwest Lifestyle Strangeness
When a photographer bought a 1929 camera at second-hand store, he discovered 70-year-old film inside and was able to develop it News Lifestyle
One of the most intriguing nautical mysteries: the Carroll A. Deering “ghost ship” News Self-Propelled Strangeness
An artist established his own micro-nation of Ladonia in Sweden, including a flag, motto, and departments like Ministry of Procrastination News Interiors Lifestyle Strangeness
Poisonings, drowning, a nunnery, or exile: Life as one of Ivan the Terrible’s eight wives Strangeness News
Roald Dahl, obsessed with Roma culture, worked in a traditional wagon turned writing shed News Glamour Interiors Vintage Hollywood