Louis Cartier created the wristwatch so that aviator Santos-Dumont could check his performance while flying over Paris Glamour
Derinkuyu: the advanced underground city in Turkey using ventilation shafts that could date as far back as 15th century BC Abandoned Spaces
“Constructed” by freight trains, Ukraine’s Tunnel of Love is now an alluring form of green architecture Strangeness
The sandwich was named after an 18th century earl who didn’t want to take a break from gambling to eat News
Sir Anthony Hopkins won the Oscar for role of psychopath Hannibal Lecter with only 16 minutes of screen time and an unblinking stare Glamour
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