London is pretty densely packed with museums. Ask any visitor to London, and they can reel off ten museums that they’re hoping to visit….the Science Museum, the V&A, the British Museum. What most visitors don’t realise is that there’s a whole lot more museums that they may never have heard [...]
There are some books that hit the market and make a huge impact that fizzles out within a few years, and others that barely hit the market at all. Whether you read these books or not is a matter of personal taste and likely won’t make much of a difference [...]
Being a friend of a monarch used to be a dangerous occupation. You could gain riches and power, but you also ran the very real risk of ending up at in the Tower of London, with your head some distance away from your body. And there was no monarch more [...]
Have you ever looked at a baby and thought “Awww…it’s so cute! It’s the most beautiful baby I’ve ever seen” and then looked at the parents and thought “Huh? Where did the kid get his looks from?”. Well, maybe it’s just an advantage of being a baby. Baby things are [...]
Pro wrestling has been a staple of American entertainment since at least the early 1900’s. Origonally an off-shoot of carnival acts, pro wrestling, or staged ‘fixed’ wrestling matches, have long been part of the American entertainment spotlight. Early grapplers of dubious legitimacy included George Hackenshmidt and Lou Thesz who led [...]
Movies are an embedded part of American life. With our favorite stories, heroes and villains, adventures and romances all played on the big screen; we are able to live vicariously through actors who pretend to be what we always wanted to be ourselves. With movies that become cult hits and [...]
There are tons of times every day when something pops up and we wonder to ourselves, “why hasn’t anyone invented a way to do this easier yet?” Being in the day and age of computers so small you can put them in your pocket that are more powerful than ones [...]
The epitaph is the last word many put out into the world, and is the way that for centuries many have summed up their life, or death, in just a few short words. In some instances, the best epitaphs are written by those who knew the deceased well, and with [...]
All over the world, millions of people try to make their claim to fame through world records. While the major institution of record keeping, The Guinness Book, recognizes some strange records, there are more that even they haven’t seen yet. This is because every day, new records are being attained, [...]
Have you put much thought into where your body is going to end up after you die? Burial? Urn on the fireplace mantel? Compressed into a diamond to be worn as a pendant? Layered in a jar with glitter and Christmas lights so you can remain festive even in death? [...]
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Not much is generally known about serial killers aside from their crimes. It is widely believed, at least amongst experts,...
Leading internet sources will tell you that Paul McCartney, composer and bassist of the Beatles, lived 18 June 1942-present. But...
