The extremely elegant kite-drawn carriages called Charvolants
The first gold rush in the United States happened in North Carolina
“The House of the Rising Sun” predates New Orleans, it begins with 16th century bawdy houses fatal to young men
The character of Chewbacca was inspired by George Lucas’ tall hairy Alaskan Malamute
In WWII, the 20-year-old George H. W. Bush was only one of group of nine airmen who escaped fate worse than death
“Babe would understand” Stan Laurel was too ill to attend the funeral of his best buddy Oliver Hardy
Bea Arthur: The former US Marine WWII truck driver who became a “Golden Girl”
Arthur Rimbaud: a sensitive 19th century poet turned mercenary & gun runner in Ethiopia
Turkish women had a legal right to divorce if their husbands forbade them from going to hammams, the traditional steam baths
When Julius Caesar brought the first giraffe to Europe, the perplexed Romans called it a “cameleopard”
