The Voynich Manuscript is the most mysterious manuscript in the world
The Derringer: the smallest hand gun which is best known for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
1715 treasure fleet gold coins valued at $1 million are about to go on sale
Edinburgh Castle is the most besieged place in Great Britain and one of the most attacked in the world
Lester B. Pearson – the Canadian who introduced the publicly funded system of universal health care and the Maple Leaf flag
The Lobster War – When Brazil and France argued whether lobsters crawl or swim
When Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud met for the first time, they talked for thirteen hours, virtually without stopping
Walter Freeman, who championed lobotomy in the US, was touring with his “lobotomobile” demonstrating the procedure
“For sale: baby shoes, never worn” – Did or did not Hemingway wrote the shortest, saddest story of six words
Purchased as a gift for Empress Catherine the Great, the Peacock Clock is the only large example of 18th century robotics to have survived unaltered into the 21st century
