Florence Foster Jenkins: The world’s worst opera singer who sold out Carnegie Hall weeks in advance
In 1620s Rome, the best parties by far were thrown at the Villa Borghese
Leeds Castle was the beautiful residence for the queens of England for three centuries, until boy king Edward VI gave it away
For Shelley Duvall, “The Shining” was a personal horror story because of director Stanley Kubrick
The Lobster War: When Brazil and France argued over whether lobsters crawl or swim
Study shows the Amazon River is three times older than previously thought
In WWII, Soviet partisans hid in the Odessa Catacombs, which stretch for thousands of miles below the city
Edith Head, Hollywood’s legendary costume designer, created dresses for everyone from Barbara Stanwyck to Grace Kelly
Nightingale floors: the Japanese flooring system used for alerting castle lords to nighttime attacks by ninja assassins
Before the Cultural Revolution, many Iranian women followed fashion trends, wore makeup, and favored elaborate hair styles
