HISTORY

At a 1928 dinner party in Paris, Fitzgerald kneeled before the Ulysses author, “kissed his hand, and declared: ‘How does it feel to be a great genius, Sir? I am so excited at seeing you, Sir, that I could weep.’”

The title page of this guide to the world's fauna rightly boasts "13 coloured plates and numerous illustrations in the text." The illustrations are the best part.

After George Parkman mysteriously disappeared on November 23, 1849, an unusual suspect emerged.

During the Prohibition Era, moonshiners had to be pretty crafty to keep their activities under wraps.

The infamous family feud lasted decades, and claimed the lives of 13 people. But what caused it in the first place?

While the official song of the organization proclaimed that the motto of the players was “Do or Die,” the rules of of conduct weren’t quite so tough.

Particle physicists Carl Haber and Vitaliy Fadeyev have discovered a way to use Large Hadron Collider technology to preserve historic audio.

He drafted the Declaration of Independence on this portable lap desk.

Her rule has spanned 63 years—but it could have all been undone by one 17-year-old.

Acclimatization societies imported the yellowhammer to get rid of pests—and then it became a pest itself.

Here's the story behind the seemingly arbitrary gendering of buttons.