The Navy tug USS Conestoga is discovered only 30 miles off the coast of San Francisco, 90 years after it left the U.S. west coast and failed to reach Pearl Harbor
The Arms of Skanderbeg: the only remaining belongings of the Albanian national hero Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg
Copper mining remnants discovered in Timna Valley, Israel may hold the key to the history behind Bible accounts of Solomon’s mines and King David’s military conflicts
The Lafayette Theater in Harlem became the first major theater which did not segregate African-American audiences in New York
Monopoly boards with maps hidden inside helped British POWs escape the Nazis
The oldest tree in the world was alive when Stonehenge was under construction and around the time humans developed their first writing system
There was a secret society for Catholics called “The Order of the Pug.” Novices were initiated wearing a dog collar and had to scratch at the door to get in
Thomas Hooker: preacher, populist, and founder of the Connecticut Colony
Coastal erosion has caused the Medieval town of Dunwich to lie 10 meters underwater and 2,000 meters away from the present-day shoreline
Japanese train station built around a giant 700-year-old camphor tree
