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Fleeting Wonders: New Pants For a Naked Statue in China
The Changchun statue's new look. (Photo: HRColin/Weibo)Last week, Rome's Capitoline Museum drew sniggers when it decided to completely cover ancient nude statues and sculptures ahead of Iranian...
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How the Birth Certificate Became a Ticket to Society
This sign would be more useful in Somalia than in California. (Photo: Public Domain/WikiCommons)Whether the advent of your birthday each year is a happy or sad occasion, it’s hard to forget the date....
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Plovdiv Roman Theater in Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Hey, quick: where is the world's best-preserved ancient Roman theater located? Nope. Wrong. Sorry. The correct answer is "Bulgaria."Plovdiv, Bulgaria is one of Europe's oldest continuously inhabited...
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Camlann Village in Carnation, Washington
This living history museum strives to offer the sights, sounds, and smells of Medieval England in the wilds of rural Washington.Tucked in a scenic clearing in the forest, Camlann Medieval Village is a...
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Meet the Brain Banker Who Keeps Thousands of Brains In His Lab In the Bronx
Brain scans at a research facility. (Photo: Tushchakorn/shutterstock.com)Dr. Vahram Haroutunian opened the plastic tupperware with a careful, rigid pop. Inside are over a dozen pink, carefully...
View ArticleBack When Monday Night Football Was Like a Groovy '70s Detective Show
As anticipation grows for Sunday night's Super Bowl 50, we bring you an NFL promo from 1970 that you don't have to be a football fan to appreciate. The minute-long spot essentially looks like the...
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Could Naked Mole-Rats Hold the Key to Everlasting Life?
The key to longevity? (Photo: Justin/flickr)The naked mole-rat—as its name fairly shouts—is not a comely animal. It looks like a wrinkled potato with pinhole eyes, a wet, pink divot for a nose and two...
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Windmills of Lasithi Plateau in Lasithi Plateau, Greece
Located on the island of Crete, the Lasithi Plateau holds a small rural community that was once reliant on over ten thousand identical windmills. While the use and number of the windmills has dwindled,...
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U Bein Bridge in Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma)
Stretching across Taungthaman Lake in Myanmar, the U Bein Bridge might look like just another rickety wooden crossing (which it is), but this historic span is actually made of the remains of a royal...
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Greek Ship in Kish, Iran
Sitting in the shallow waters off the coast of Iran's Kish Island is the ghostly husk of a dead steamship that has not left its spot since 1966, and probably isn't leaving any time soon. Nicknamed the...
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FOUND: An Incredibly Well Preserved Egyptian Funeral Boat From 4,500 Years Ago
That was a boat, 4,500 years ago (Photo: Czech Institute of Egyptology/V. Dulikova)In the desert sand of Abusir, an archaeological site south of Cairo, archaeologists from the Czech Republic have...
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Object of Intrigue: Ancient Persian Water Clocks
It's like looking down at your watch. (Photo: Public Domain/WikiCommons)The word for an ancient water clock sounds like a name of a Greek goddess: Clepsydra. These age-old time-keeping devices are...
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Astronomical Clocks Are the Most Beautiful Way to Track Hours, Years, and...
The beauty of astronomical clocks cannot be counted. (Photo: Didier B/Wikipedia)As analog clocks give way to lightweight digital timepieces, it seems increasingly amazing that mechanical clocks once...
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Homestead Crater in Midway, Utah
Yes, that's right – Mother Nature has spent over 10,000 years building this gigantic private hot tub, just for you.Even after driving around for a while, one would be forgiven for not giving Midland,...
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Why England Was A Year Behind Belgium, Spain and Italy for 170 Years
William Hogarth's satirical painting, "An Election Entertainment" (1755), includes the words "Give us back our eleven days!" (Photo: Public Domain/WikiCommons)In 1584 a violent, angry crowd ransacked...
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Fleeting Wonders: Punxsutawney Phil's Greatest Hits
A 1915 cartoon demonstrating how Phil's image has been co-opted for various rhetorical purposes. (Image: Jena Fuller/Flickr)This morning, Punxsutawney Phil, America's most beloved forecasting...
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Ellis Island's Forgotten Final Act as a Cold War Detention Center
A group of immigrants wave goodbye as they are deported, 1952. (Photo: Library of Congress)On November 17, 1950 famed Hungarian-born violinist Joseph Szigeti arrived in New York City to begin an...
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Gennett Walk of Fame in Richmond, Indiana
The small city of Richmond in eastern Indiana is an unlikely place to find a deep and rich history of jazz, blues, gospel, country, revival, and other early recordings. And the source of those...
View ArticleVideo Wonder: Sydney Men Narrowly Avoid Lightning Strike
"Dude, don't go outside." Those were very nearly the famous last words of two Sydney men who narrowly escaped being struck by lightning during a storm in the city's Oyster Bay last weekend. The two...
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Carroll Avenue in Chicago, Illinois
At the mouth of the north branch of the Chicago River, the Kinzie Street Bridge stands as a relic of Chicago's industrial past. It also marks the western end of Carroll Avenue, an old freight corridor...
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