On July 17, 1999, a beachcomber at Philbin Beach in Martha’s Vineyard came across an unusual find: a business card for a Morgan Stanley financial executive named Lauren Bessette. The name almost ...
Paul Kevin Curtis was an Elvis impersonator from Tupelo, Mississippi who was known by locals for his eccentric personality and bizarre conspiracy theories about the city hospital's involvement in ...
Tickling may seem like a harmless and playful act, but it actually has a long and complex history that stretches across different cultures and eras. Its ability to immobilize and cause discomfort has ...
Genevieve Carlton earned a Ph.D in history from Northwestern University with a focus on early modern Europe and the history of science and medicine before becoming a history professor at the ...
In the 1973 novel The Princess Bride, Buttercup and Westley are taken by surprise when they are suddenly attacked by “rodents of unusual size,” or ROUS. The book describes the beasts as a “pure rat ...
As French troops prepared to face Ottoman forces in Rosetta, Egypt, in July 1799, they stumbled upon a chunk of carved stone. Stuck into the wall of a fort, it displayed three languages — and soon ...