Historical connections between “Game of Thrones” Braavos and its assassins guild and Venice and its Council of Ten
Corpses found in bogs unusually well preserved, and sometimes yield clues of ritual sacrifice and punishment
The recording of “Bohemian Rhapsody” took three weeks and featured 180 overdubs of vocals and instruments, including a Chinese gong
The Sri Shambulingeshwara Swamy temple to be dismantled and moved, to prevent being swamped again
In the 1930s, financial guru Sylvia Porter hid her female identity with the byline “S. F. Porter”
Salt’s value to mankind precedes recorded history–it has served as currency and cause of war
Gertrude Käsebier left her unhappy marriage, became a photographer at the age of 40, and was one of the greatest at her time
The perfect pets: An ancient-DNA study shows how cats domesticated themselves
The Dymaxion car: Buckminister Fuller’s incredible “zoom-mobile” that never took flight
The real-life wiseguys behind Scorsese’s “GoodFellas,” who pulled off the multi-million Lufthansa heist
