War Plan Red: In a hypothetical war between the United States and Britain approved in 1930, the first step was to attack Canada
Clark Gable never recovered from the tragic death of his wife, Carole Lombard, in a plane crash
The legendary Edinburgh Castle occupies the site of a 350-million-year-old plug of an extinct volcano
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
