Trademark of a culture: The horse-drawn Vardo wagons used by the Romani people of Britain Self-Propelled
Hattie McDaniel of “Gone With the Wind,” the first African-American to win an Oscar, battled discrimination even at the Academy Awards ceremony News
La Peregrina, the famous pearl discovered on an island near Panama and worn first by Mary I of England Fashion
Barbed wire made possible America’s original social network, when news traveled throughout the countryside on a telephone party line Lifestyle
UFOs aside, 50 years later, “The Lead Masks Case” is still one of the most bizzare unsolved cases in the world Strangeness
The Unlucky Mummy: The artifact once believed to have been the cause of Titanic’s sinking Strangeness
“It’s raining cats and dogs” may be a bizarre way to describe a heavy downpour, but it’s better than “It’s raining old women with clubs” Strangeness
The Wild West era, a period of myth-making cowboys, gunslingers, and saloon madames, actually lasted only 30 years Strangeness
A crazy if unconsummated 1965 love triangle starring Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, and Bob Dylan ended tragically Glamour
Holly Golightly would be “divinely and utterly happy,” because now, finally, it’s possible to have breakfast at Tiffany’s Glamour