The mustache cup: The special tea cup used by the Victorian men to protect their mustache from getting dunked into their tea Strangeness
‘fragging’ is the deliberate killing of a senior ranking military officer, usually with a frag grenade. Over 700 cases during the Vietnam war Featured News
Ruins of the Clifden Castle witness the first Gothic Revival building in Ireland News Abandoned Spaces
There once was a “beard tax” in England (and in Russia), those who payed the tax were given a token News Strangeness
The last emperor of Mexico was offered a chance to escape execution, but he felt that shaving his beard to avoid recognition would ruin his dignity News