The Luxury That Killed Millions: How the Silk Road Spread the Black Death
The Luxury That Killed Millions: How the Silk Road Spread the Black Death In 1347, the European obsession with Eastern...
Bizarre History
The Dresden Codex: How a Maya Astronomical Computer Survived Two Catastrophes
The Dresden Codex: How a Maya Astronomical Computer Survived Two Catastrophes On the night of February 13, 1945, as Allied...
The Cadaver Synod: The Dead Pope Who Stood Trial
The Cadaver Synod: The Dead Pope Who Stood Trial In the annals of history, few events are as macabre as...
Centralia: The Pennsylvania Town Burning From Within Since 1962
Centralia: The Pennsylvania Town Burning From Within Since 1962 Deep in the forests of Pennsylvania lies a ghost town unlike...
Bullet Ant Ritual: The Sateré-Mawé Rite of Passage
Bullet Ant Ritual: The Sateré-Mawé Rite of Passage Deep within the Amazon rainforest, the Sateré-Mawé tribe practices one of the...
Urban Engineering: Is Your City Designed to Control You?
Urban Engineering: Is Your City Designed to Control You? Look at the vast square in your city. While it may...
Post-Mortem Photography: The Victorian Tradition of Remembering the Dead
Post-Mortem Photography: The Victorian Tradition of Remembering the Dead In the quiet, chemical-scented studios of the 19th century, a unique...
The 21-Gram Theory: Was Dr. MacDougall’s Soul Experiment a Hoax?
The 21-Gram Theory: Was Dr. MacDougall’s Soul Experiment a Hoax? In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall set out to prove that...
The Walls of Constantinople: Engineering an Impregnable Fortress
The Walls of Constantinople: Engineering an Impregnable Fortress Constantinople was not merely a capital; it was the most vital strategic...
The 1904 St. Louis Marathon: A Deadly Human Experiment
The 1904 St. Louis Marathon: A Deadly Human Experiment The 1904 St. Louis Olympic marathon is remembered not as a...
