The original song ‘The House of the Rising Sun’ is older than New Orleans
Roald Dahl, the writer of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” was given a Viking funeral, and was buried with wine, snooker cues, pencils and a power saw
Lady Jane Grey – the monarch with the shortest reign in British history
Several Deaths Could Have Been Prevented During the Battle of the Alamo
Ancestors from the 1st century, buried beneath pottery, are believed to hold key to our past
Inaugural address of just 135 words, dead birds and diarrhea: some of the strangest inaugurations in U.S. history
Shake, rattle, and roll: Bronze age rattle found in Siberia
When Streamlines died, maybe rail design imagination died with them. Aerotrain’s failure in the eye’s of the American public.
Sutton Hoo: 7th-century ship burial mound holds a rare ‘tar’ material find
One of the great executive toys of the European Renaissance, the Mechanical Galleon is a masterpiece of both technological skill and high artistic decoration
