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Why is Shakespeare Still So Popular? For the Same Reason Tolstoy Hated Him
Richard Burton as Henry V. (Photo: Maurice Ambler/Getty Images)Among the First Folios and rare quartos and historic theatre costumes at the British Library’s recently opened exhibition, Shakespeare in...
View ArticleWorkplace Safety Videos Got Pretty Horrific in the '80s
Workplace safety in the '80s was no joke—in fact, it was more like a horror movie. At least that's how the above video makes it seem. The short film was made to show factory workers that unsafe working...
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8 Places From Shakespeare That You Can Actually Visit
Juliet's Balcony in Verona. (Photo: Spencer Wright/CC BY 2.0)Ah, the Bard! While Shakespeare is known for his iconic characters and poetic dialogue, he was also a master of establishing place. From...
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Artist's Drive in Furnace Creek, California
Death Valley conjures images of a rugged, desolate, monochromatic landscape of sun-blasted mountains and blistering, arid valleys. Artist's Drive, however, is a meandering road along the face of the...
View ArticleFirefighters Yank Fake Horse Out Of The Mud
Passers-by in Soccoro, New Mexico faced an unusual sight yesterday—an enormous fake horse, sunk up to its shoulders in a pit of mud.But this was not the work of a mannequin mobster, or a hater of...
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Audubon Made Up At Least 28 Fake Species To Prank A Rival
A page from Rafinesque's field notebook. (Image: Smithsonian Institution Archives/SIA2012-6095)Pranks are meant to be discovered—what’s the point in fooling someone if they never notice they’ve been...
View ArticleBought: A Billboard Pleading For Old Star Wars Stories
Good afternoon Lucasfilm. The fans would like a word! Please continue the #SWEU and #GiveUsLegendsThank you! pic.twitter.com/1ekEFvfgsC— Give Us Legends (@GiveUsLegends) April 18, 2016 For better or...
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Do You Like Dialect Quizzes? You Have a French Bicyclist To Thank
A 1900s-era bicycle—Edmond Edmont's tool of the trade. (Image: Public Domain)Back in 2013, millions of Americans spent a few minutes clicking through this dialect survey. They threw their lots in with...
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The Hidden Vaults With $248 Billion in Gold Underneath London
(Photo: Bullion Vault/CC BY-ND 2.0)Around one-fifth of all the gold held by governments is beneath the streets of London, in hidden vaults that have been storing the gold in bars for decades. The...
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Grave of a Man and his Horse Killed by a Train in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas
Nearly a century of drivers have enjoyed Arkansas' State Highway system for its lush fields, punctuated by the occasional rolling hill and outcropping of trees. But before the smooth pavement proved...
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Entomological Museum of Volos in Volos, Greece
Doctor Athanasios Koutroumpas has had a lifelong preoccupation with the collection of insects. It seemed only proper, then, that a lifetime of beautiful, systematic hoarding should result in a museum...
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After 59 Years, Sewage Will Finally Stop Flowing Into Florida Bay
(Photo: Google Maps)Since 1957, sewage from the toilets at the Pensacola Library flowed directly into nearby Pensacola Bay via the city's stormwater drains. That's the year the library was built. A...
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Bangkok Airplane Graveyard in Bangkok, Thailand
Next to an autobody shop, off of Ramkhamhaeng Road in Bangkok, an abandoned 747 and two smaller MD-82 planes sit derelict and lying in pieces. Besides the oddity of seeing huge planes lying by the side...
View ArticleInscription on Newly Found 2,400-Year-Old Mosaic: 'Be Cheerful, Enjoy Your Life'
2,400 year-old mosaic found in southern Turkey says ‘be cheerful, enjoy your life’https://t.co/auebGUbXOCpic.twitter.com/9YYBvxGsik— DAILY SABAH (@DailySabah) April 22, 2016Look. It's been a long week....
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Brock's Monument in Queenston, Canada
On the morning of October 13, 1812, Major General Sir Isaac Brock was killed while leading a charge against American forces at the Battle of Queenston Heights, during the War of 1812.The Canadians and...
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German City Experiments with Ground Lighting for Smartphone-Fixated Pedestrians
Flashing LED lights in the ground are intended to identify red lights to smartphone users at the pedestrian crossing for the Haunstetter street tram stop. (Photo: swa/Thomas Hosemann)Hardly a day...
View ArticleSold: Some of the Original 'Laws of Base Ball,' For Over $3 Million
$3,263,246: Final price realized for coveted 'Laws of Base Ball' at @SCPAuctions tonight! #MLB#auction#baseballpic.twitter.com/XT7XvXmqcW— SCP Auctions (@SCPAuctions) April 24, 2016In a home run for...
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A 19th-Century Map of Our 'Square and Stationary' Earth
(Image: Library of Congress/2011594831)According to Orlando Ferguson we are not living on a globe but in a giant donut mold.In 1893, Ferguson, of Hot Springs, South Dakota, published his Map of the...
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Found: A 1994 Computer Game Starring Prince
Enter Prince's world. (Image: Screenshot)Everyone needs to mourn Prince in their own way. At Mashable, Adam Rosenberg tracked a 22-year-old CD-ROM game called Prince Interactive, which contains the...
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The Strange Pocket of Modern Houses in Virginia that Were Considered Communist
A house designed by Charles M Goodman in Hollin Hills, Virginia. (Photo: Clarissa Peterson/CC BY-SA 3.0)“Virginia is for Lovers” reads the sign as you head south across the Potomac River from...
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