The macaron craze: From Venetian monasteries and Catherine de’ Medici to two Carmelite nuns in the French Revolution News
Napoleon, who favored the royal residence of Fontainebleau more than some of the kings of France, signed his abdication papers there Interiors
The Aztec macuahuitl, a sword with obsidian blades, was sharp enough to decapitate a horse News Archeology Battlefields Strangeness
The French founder of L’Oreal, world’s largest cosmetics company, admired Hitler and befriended Nazi leaders Strangeness Battlefields News
Boris Karloff, a terrifying Frankenstein’s Monster and a grumpy Grinch, every year gave presents to kids with disabilities Glamour Strangeness Vintage Hollywood
Zellige tiles, the lovely traditional Moroccan art form, used geometric shapes because Islam forbade human or animal figures Interiors
Million Dollar Point – A Fortune of US Military Gear Dumped into the Pacific Abandoned Spaces Battlefields
The Sentinelese tribe living on an island in the Indian Ocean have rejected outsider contact for centuries and still greet visitors with arrow attack Strangeness