The Last "King" in Ireland
Toraigh Island is small. It's got less than 150 inhabitants, one paved road, one church, one grocery store, one hotel and – still – one king. Pat...
Toraigh Island is small. It's got less than 150 inhabitants, one paved road, one church, one grocery store, one hotel and – still – one king. Pat...
For hundreds of years, Native Americans have used eagle feathers for religious practices and cultural purposes. In recognition of the significance of...
For almost two centuries, powdered wigs were all the rage. But the chic hairpiece would have never taken off if it hadn't been for a venereal disease....
So, may I see you home? In the late 19th century, Americans exchanged cheeky personalized cards to start a romance. Call them the ink-and-paper...
When something is inexplicably outlandish - ridiculously unfeasible - the idea is said to have “a snowball’s chance in hell.” But what if you could...
Everyone knows that walls can’t talk. But what if they could listen and help us share? What if one of history’s most famous barriers—the Berlin Wall—...
Nylon stockings hit the market after the World's Fair in 1935 and people couldn't get enough of them. But during World War II, panty hose disappeared...
Liquid Ass was the brainchild of a prankster named Allen Wittman. A whiff is said to smell of “butt crack and sewer.” Lovely. We put on a brave fac...
Imagine arriving at a door the same time as another stranger. You’re both trying to be polite and neither of you wants to enter first, but you c...
She's been threatened with voodoo and death threats, but U.S. customs supervisor Ellie Scaffa doesn't let that stop her. Scaffa's job is to dispose of...
Ralph Morse was a stormtrooper in Star Wars episodes V and IV. He tells us what it was like to don the emblematic white armor and all of the...
Emmanuel Heilbronner, a.k.a. “Dr. Bronner” invented the magic soaps we’ve come to know and love. Originally from Germany, the idiosyncratic soap maker...