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On the 21st of April 1922, the curtain fell on a centuries-old Western musical tradition with the passing of Alessandro Moreschi, the...

Dr. Young's Ideal Rectal Dilators, marketed in the United States from the late 19th century through at least the 1940s, were part of the...

At a time when circuses and exhibitions reigned supreme, offering people a glimpse into the exotic and the unknown, London was visited by...

In the heart of Portland, Oregon, amidst the eclectic mix of vintage stores and artisanal shops, resides a woman whose life story is as...

In the 1980s and 1990s, African artists were commissioned to create Hollywood movie posters that aimed to exude maximum excitement, often...

Nestled within the lush expanse of Kenya's highlands, a peculiar slice of colonial history unfolded in the early 20th century. This tale,...

Good news for fans of delectable Chinese cuisine: the individual behind the infamous "democracy manifest" is still among us, (he isn't a...

On the evening of 28th February 1986, Sweden’s prime minister Olof Palme and his wife, Lisbet, were making their way home through central...

Born in 1896, Lavinia Schulz possessed an innate talent that defied convention. Alongside her husband, Walter Holdt, born in 1899, she...

Every once in a while this 2010 clip surfaces again online. What is seemingly a school play, thankfully isn't! The video was originally...

On December the 12th 1910, the heiress to a perfume empire Dorothy Arnold vanished without a trace while shopping for an evening dress at...

During the early 20th century, a distinctive and movable type of housing surfaced, known as mobile wooden homes. These structures,...

Forget serene woodland scenes or snapshots of a family decorating a tree beside a roaring fire. Victorian Christmas cards were a...

In the freewheeling world of Hollywood in the late 1960s and early 1970s, where experimentation and rebellion were the norm, few...

Alice Cooper has been well-known since the late 1960s and he seems to have been friends with people from all corners of the entertainment...

I was born in 1899 in the village of Pokrovskoe in the county of Tobolsk. My parents are peasants, simple people. Our family consists of:...

Roy Cleveland Sullivan was not just any American park ranger; he was a man whose life defied the laws of probability. Working in...

Victor Lustig was a master of deception, infamous for his bold scams that spanned Europe and the United States in the early 20th century....

In 1929, Margaret Gibb, one half of the famed Siamese twins, got engaged to Carlos Daniel Josefe, a gentleman from Mexico City whom she...

In pre-war Germany, during the 1930s, there was no shortage of wild ideas when it came to transportation, especially when rockets were...

The mass suicide of 39 members of the Heaven’s Gate cult in March 1997 remains one of the most chilling and enigmatic episodes in modern...

The Berberov family’s story is a peculiar and tragic chapter in the history of Soviet Baku (modern-day Azerbaijan), where an architect’s...

James Ricalton, born in 1844, was an intrepid American photographer and educator whose career was marked by a relentless pursuit of...

Throughout history few stories are as harrowing and cautionary as that of Eben Byers, a wealthy industrialist whose life was forever...