Louis Cartier created the wristwatch so that aviator Santos-Dumont could check his performance while flying over Paris
Derinkuyu: the advanced underground city in Turkey using ventilation shafts that could date as far back as 15th century BC
The “lethal beauty” of Evelyn Nesbit and the very first “trial of the century”
“Constructed” by freight trains, Ukraine’s Tunnel of Love is now an alluring form of green architecture
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
