Lionel Logue: The Australian speech therapist who helped an English king overcome his greatest fear
A ring picked up for $13 in the 1980s brought a woman $850,000 at Sotheby’s
Since the Cuban Missile Crisis, no U.S. president has been without the Nuclear Football
The chief justice at Salem witch trials accepted “spectral evidence.” Nine hangings later, he didn’t regret it.
Аircraft inventor Santos-Dumont believed air travel would bring world peace so he offered his designs free of charge
The baffling Piri Reis Map of 1513: It showed Antarctica centuries before discovery, but without its ice cap
Beautifully carved masks embody the spirits honored by the Yup’ik shamans
Hitler’s ultimate plan for Moscow: Kill everyone who lives there, replace it with a lake
Octavia Minor: Sister of Augustus, wife of Mark Antony, and great-grandmother of Caligula
Beatrix Potter, author of “Peter Rabbit,” never got over her first love
