The Women’s Battalion of Death were the last guards of the Winter Palace during the Bolshevik Revolution
Florence Foster Jenkins: The world’s worst singer who sold out Carnegie Hall in just two hours
Joseph Black: another great Scot who discovered magnesium, latent heat, specific heat and carbon dioxide
In ancient Rome during funerals, a person called an Archimime would walk behind the deceased and imitate the person as if they were still alive
The Radium Ore Revigator was a pseudo-scientific medical device used to infuse drinking water with radium
Saint Anthony’s Chapel in Pittsburgh is the home of the largest collection of Catholic relics in the world outside of the Vatican
JFK’s sister Rosemary was given one of the first lobotomies
The Alfred Jewel: One of the most famous and mysterious treasures from Anglo-Saxon England
Aldous Huxley was George Orwell’s French teacher at Eton College
Prohibition and speakeasies in the US
