The sandwich was named after an 18th century earl who didn’t want to take a break from gambling to eat
Sir Anthony Hopkins won the Oscar for role of psychopath Hannibal Lecter with only 16 minutes of screen time and an unblinking stare
Trademark of a culture: The horse-drawn Vardo wagons used by the Romani people of Britain
Hattie McDaniel of “Gone With the Wind,” the first African-American to win an Oscar, battled discrimination even at the Academy Awards ceremony
La Peregrina, the famous pearl discovered on an island near Panama and worn first by Mary I of England
A new study finds the earliest traces of wine-making in country of Georgia in roughly 6000 BC
Barbed wire made possible America’s original social network, when news traveled throughout the countryside on a telephone party line
UFOs aside, 50 years later, “The Lead Masks Case” is still one of the most bizzare unsolved cases in the world
The Unlucky Mummy: The artifact once believed to have been the cause of Titanic’s sinking
Wacko: “It’s raining cats and dogs” So where did the expression come from anyway
