Easter Island is tiny and bewilderingly remote. The island’s residents – the Rapa Nui – are most famous for their incredible stone heads. They’re also well-known for being part of a civilisation that crumbled due...
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Get an Atlas, open and point at random then check out the place that chance, or the Illuminati have directed you to. This time the game takes place within The Times Concise Atlas,...
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“Devil codex Gigas” by Kungl. biblioteket. Licensed under Attribution via Wikimedia Commons. I went through a phase of collecting antiquated books when I was younger. The binding, text and smell added to the...
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“Bb199” by Onfim of Novgorod, copy by http://www.gramoty.ru – http://gramoty.ru/prorisi/bb199.gif. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. History is often perceived to be a snooze-laden doom truck carrying snores all the way...
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“Palaeopropithecus ingens” by Smokeybjb – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Prehistoric times must’ve been terrifying. Dinosaurs, enormous hairy elephants and bumble bees the size of tanks. Well, maybe...
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“Dear Friend Hitler film poster” by Source. Licensed under Fair use via Wikipedia. On the 23rd July 1939, Europe was in a palpably tense state. The proverbial dog-doo was creeping dangerously close to...
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A fella called Nathan Chandler recently purchased a home that was built in 1956, for some reason the house had never been lived in. Maybe it was haunted or something? I dunno. Bit weird though isn’t it?...
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“Monument aux Martyrs” by prise par un touriste inconu – algerie. Licensed under CC BY 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons. As part of my long term project to write a short article on a...
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“Yes, I loved that pigeon, I loved her as a man loves a woman, and she loved me.” – Nikola Tesla Nikola Tesla, born in 1856, was for modern science what Sir Isaac...
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“Kewaunee River” by Chris Rand – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Iceland. Aurora Borealis, hot springs, twisted daylight hours and Bjork. Folklore is still pretty archaic there too....
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