The many lives of Fridtjof Nansen: From North Pole explorer and champion ice skater to diplomat Lifestyle Strangeness
Greenland sharks considered the world’s oldest vertebrate, with a new study dating one at up to 512 years old News Strangeness
Bats act as pest control at the library of the Palace of Mafra in Portugal News Interiors Strangeness
Jimmie Nicol: The drummer who replaced Ringo Starr and lived as a Beatle for two weeks in 1964 Glamour News
Chaps, the story of the traditional leather protective gear that no cowboy could do without News Strangeness
Castle Combe: a picturesque medieval village in England once center of a thriving wool trade Interiors News
Icelandic turf houses: eco-friendly homes, built on lava stones, date back more than a thousand years Interiors News Strangeness
“Hell on Wheels” created to describe brothels, saloons, and casinos that followed workers building the railroad Strangeness Glamour News
Millvina Dean, last survivor of the Titanic, was forced to sell her Titanic memorabilia to pay health bills at 96 News Self-Propelled Strangeness
Walter Freeman, who championed lobotomy in the U.S., toured with his “lobotomobile,” demonstrating the procedure News Strangeness