Alice Guy-Blache: The story of the first female cinema pioneer and film director
A dance to die for: The mysterious phenomenon of Medieval Europe that drove people to dance until collapse …
J. R. R. Tolkien named the kind and protective hobbit Samwise Gamgee after a pioneering British surgeon
Peter Freuchen, a Danish explorer, writer, and Nazi Resistance fighter who amputated his frostbitten toes himself without anesthesia
In WWII, the 20-year-old George H. W. Bush was only one of group of nine airmen who escaped fate worse than death
The tragedy of Elizabeth Shoumatoff’s unfinished portrait of President Franklin Roosevelt
The truth about that Indian maharaja who used Rolls-Royces for garbage collection
Remarkable invention: fore-edge, the “disappearing painting” on the edge of a book, now an endangered art form
New scientific findings from Antarctica a game-changer in how we perceive conditions needed to support life, not just on Earth but on other planets
Kings and queens of ancient world buried in “beehive tombs,” including Trojan conqueror Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, the wife whom legend has it murdered him
