Harriet, the Galapagos tortoise, lived to be 175 and was reportedly collected by Charles Darwin in 1835
Mengenlehreuhr: the Berlin Clock that shows time with the help of light signals and a mathematical theory
The Stanley Hotel served as a model for the fictional Overlook Hotel in Stephen King’s novel “The Shining”
Claude Monet’s cataract surgery might have influenced his later paintings
Isadora Duncan – The inventor of American modern dance died tragically when her long scarf became entangled around the rear axle of the car she was riding in
The Monumental Cemetery: An extraordinary open-air museum and one of the largest cemeteries in Milan
Louis Armstrong popularized scat singing after he dropped the lyric sheet while recording the song “Heebie Jeebies” and started improvising syllables
The remarkable sights of the Thikse Monastery
Room 101, the torture chamber in George Orwell’s 1984, was named after a conference room at the BBC where Orwell would have to sit through tortuously boring meetings
Gorgon myth imagery appears on coins and artwork from Ancient Greece to modern day
