The Night Billy Idol Had to Be Tranquilized in Bangkok
(And Why It’s Still the Greatest Rock ’n’ Roll Escape Story Ever Told) Picture this: it’s 1989. “White Wedding” and “Rebel Yell” are still on …
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New documentary explores mystery of Titanic’s ‘Unknown Child’
Days after the Titanic hit an iceberg, a Canadian morgue ship was dispatched to the North Atlantic where sailors were confronted with a grisly sight: …
The king of the jungle: Archive pictures from George V’s hunting trip in India in 1911 show him posing alongside the tigers and rhinos he had killed
These remarkable photos of King George V hunting show just how much social attitudes can change in 100 years. The King’s hunting party killed 60 …
Filled with feces and mistreated: the terrible case of the young woman locked in her room for 25 years by her family
Humanity went through a very difficult 2020 amid a pandemic that killed more than 360,000 people worldwide and forced a highly complex measure: lockdowns for …
Eisenhower at Ohrdruf: The Day a Soldier Became History’s Witness
April 12, 1945 –Ohrdruf-Nord, sub-camp of Buchenwald, Germany The wind carried the smell first: sweet-rot, lime, and smoke that would not wash out of uniforms …
I Was Born in Bondage: The Voice of Preely Coleman, 1935
In the summer of 1935, an 85-year-old man named Preely Coleman sat on a porch in Tyler, Texas, and did something almost no one born …
Fort Tolukko, Indonesia’s Phallic Fortress
As architectural conventions fade and engineering reaches unprecedented heights, unusual design choices are more common than ever before. Perhaps the most extreme epitome of this …
The Real Reason Those Viral Fetal MRI Photos Look So Creepy (And Why It’s Not What You Think)
You’ve probably seen them: those haunting black-and-white images of fetuses floating in the womb, wide-eyed, pale, and staring straight into the camera like tiny ghosts …
The Waifs of the Deep: Titanic Survivors
Two brothers who survived the Titanic after being put on the last lifeboat by their father who drowned had been kidnapped by him from their …
The Girl Who Refused to Sell Her Soul
The True Story of Sixteen-Year-Old Maggie Hogan in Abilene, Kansas, 1883 In the cattle-dust streets of Abilene, Kansas, in the fall of 1883, a sixteen-year-old …