Chillifrog

Pennsylvania

Jan 6th

Droll

When Father Tim Jones advised his poorest parishioners in York that they should shoplift in...

Jan 6th

South Bronx 1980

Jan 6th

George S. Kaufman

the notorious wit of George S. Kaufman (1889-1961), one of America’s most prolific and...

Jan 6th

The Hallway

Jan 6th

10 places you can't go

10 Mezhgorye Mezhgorye is a closed town in Russia which is believed to house people working on...

Jan 6th

French aerobatic team

Jan 6th

Words

Toffee-nosed Meaning Snobbish; supercilious; stuck-up. Origin Judging by the queries at ...

Jan 6th

Jan 6th

Paul Shaffer & Sammy Davis Jr

Paul Shaffer frantically tries to reach Sammy Davis, Jr., to select a song and schedule rehearsal...

Jan 6th

Total eclipse of the sun, 1878.

Jan 6th

Zoos

Zoos, or at least animal menageries, have been around since at least Roman times when exotic animals...

Jan 6th

Kabul

Jan 4th

In remembrance of a decade

If their deaths came in the first decade of the 21st century, their lives helped define the 20th....

Jan 4th

Jan 4th

Population

The combined populations of Europe, the United States, and Canada (often referred to simply as...

Jan 4th

Jan 4th

Houdini & Arthur Conan Doyle

It seems strange that a man best known for creating the quintessential detective, who based his...

Jan 4th

Chinese parents sleep in auditorium at Wuhan after taking...

Jan 3rd

Buzzwords of 2009

Jan 3rd

Jan 3rd

Oil

In the late 1990s, even as the major U.S. oil companies merged to get larger, their influence waned...

Jan 3rd

Jan 3rd

Photos of decade

Jan 3rd

Jan 3rd

Charlie Brown

In December 1965 came A Charlie Brown Christmas, the most successful special in television history....

Jan 3rd

Mark Twain in Nicola Tesla’s laboratory, 1894

Jan 3rd

Stalin's son

Stalin’s son, Jakov Djugashvili Stalin was an engineer by profession, During the Second World War,...

Jan 3rd

Herman Melville

Jan 3rd

Dickens

At the end of the 19th century, Charles Dickens’ short novel, A Christmas Carol, had...

Jan 3rd

France, Fischetti, 1949

Jan 3rd

Dreadnoughts

On February 7th, 1910, one Herbert Cholmondesly of HMFO demanded a special train from London’s...

Jan 3rd

Places

Jan 3rd

Then & now

1 First Men to South Magnetic Pole January 16, 1909 In 1907 the famous Anglo-Irish explorer Henry...

Jan 3rd

Victoria

Jan 3rd

10 protests

10 Louis Armstrong refuses to go to the Soviet Union ‘The way they are treating my people in the...

Jan 3rd

Jan 3rd

Mummies

10 Elmer McCurdy Elmer McCurdy (January 1880 – October 7th 1911) was an outlaw killed in a...

Jan 3rd

Miscellaneous

Jan 3rd

10 genuises

10 Imhotep 2650 – 2600 BC Imhotep, an Egyptian polymath, is the first physician, architect and...

Jan 3rd

Places

Jan 3rd

Bizarre Christmas facts

10 Incest, Corpses, and Jesus What Do Incest, An Embalmed Corpse, And The Baby Jesus Have In...

Jan 3rd

Places

Jan 3rd

10 urban legends

10 Rainbow Parties A rainbow party is a type of sexual party, said to be popular among...

Jan 3rd

Places

Jan 3rd

10 famous ghosts

10 Kate Morgan Hotel del Coronado The Hotel del Coronado is a stunning Victorian beachfront...

Jan 3rd

Dumped taxis in China

Jan 3rd

Mysteries of outer space

10 Simulacrum in Eagle Nebula One of the strangest photos that has ever been taken of space is...

Jan 3rd

China

Jan 3rd

10 savages

10 Lope de Aguirre Aguirre stands out as one of the most ruthless of the Spanish conquistadors....

Jan 3rd

2009 pictures

Jan 2nd

Mysteries of outer space

Since the beginning of life, man has looked to the stars with a sense of wonder. Between then and...

Jan 2nd

New Year’s Eve

Jan 2nd

Sinatra & women

“Another [Sinatra] trademark: He adored openly and gave not a damn who saw. In the middle of...

Jan 2nd

Fischetti, NYC, 1948

Jan 2nd

Rites of passage

Rites of passage in adolescence are a cross-cultural phenomenon. They have existed throughout human...

Jan 2nd

Algae-filled Chaohu Lake, China

Jan 2nd

Words

Full to the gunwales Meaning Full to the brim; packed tight. Origin ‘Gunwales’ is...

Jan 2nd

Maryborough

Jan 2nd

Alan Jay Lerner

One of our favorite excerpts from the dazzlingly talented Alan Jay Lerner, partner and co-writer...

Jan 2nd

Jan 2nd

Defining moments of the decade

Having reached the end of the first decade of the new millennium, it’s time to look back at all the...

Jan 2nd

Jan 2nd

A celebration of writers who died in the...

A celebration of the great writers who died in the past decade JG Ballard (1930-2009) by Michael...

Jan 2nd