Carrie Fisher, who joked about her mental illness, got in one last laugh at her own memorial service
“Babe would understand” Stan Laurel was too ill to attend the funeral of his best buddy Oliver Hardy
The Angelmakers of Nagyrev: For years a group of Hungarian women used arsenic to poison husbands, elderly relatives, and other nuisances
One of Iceland’s last turf houses still has a summer resident
Bobby Leach, first man to survive Niagara Falls barrel plunge, died after slipping on orange peel
The Good Cemeterian: Мan spends his Sundays cleaning forgotten veterans’ tombstones
The eclipse that saved Christopher Columbus and his crew from starvation
The group photo of the Solvay Conference in 1927 is likely “the most intelligent” picture ever taken
Fantastic fossil find: a dinosaur with swan-like neck and crocodile teeth that walked like a duck and swam like a penguin
Bart the Bear, who appeared in several Oscar-winning films, was “the John Wayne of bears”
