Teti’aroa: The wondrous atoll in the Pacific widely known for having been purchased by Marlon Brando in the 1960s
An ancient grave of two lovers holding hands unearthed in Siberia
The bizarre story of how a railroad worker survived an iron rod which went through his skull
An enormous amount of knowledge and effort went to waste when the Library of Alexandria was destroyed
Alice Austen portrayed ordinary Victorian-era New Yorkers in photographs that saved her after she became penniless and homeless
Anyway – the bizarre sport of wife carrying where the winner takes home his wife’s weight in beer
A Roman Charioteer; if he had lived today he would have been worth $15 billion-the highest paid athlete ever
Inspired by Star Trek: Martin Cooper invented the mobile phone in 1973
Four Denver newsmen started the 1899 hoax declaring that the Great Wall of China was to be dismantled
The anti-war symbolism of Bertolt Brecht’s play “Mother Courage and Her Children” was initially misunderstood
