[Categories] > History
San Francisco's Terra Infirma (June 3, 2004)
Ship to shore
Most Recent Common Ancestors (June 25, 2004)
Eve, Charlemagne, and you
Absinthe (July 12, 2004)
The tale of the Green Fairy
The Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers (August 2, 2004)
How a Paris abbey became a science museum
The Story of Phineas Gage (August 5, 2004)
Brain damage and personality
Rise of the Bagel (August 6, 2004)
The hole truth
Neuschwanstein Castle (August 16, 2004)
King Ludwig II's tribute to Wagner
Herrenchiemsee Castle (August 18, 2004)
King Ludwig II's island retreat
Body-Based Units of Measurement (August 23, 2004)
Size matters in more ways than one
Decimal Time (August 25, 2004)
Solutions for people who need 100 hours in a day
The Equation of Time (August 27, 2004)
When what you mean is not apparent
The Handshake (September 3, 2004)
Coming to grips with gestures of greeting
Bahasa Indonesia (September 17, 2004)
The complex story of a simple language
The Globe Theatre (September 19, 2004)
Shakespeare's ideal venue, then and now
The Story of Doughnuts (September 21, 2004)
The truth, the hole truth…
Demosthenes' Stones (September 26, 2004)
Improving your diction, Athenian style
Piñatas (October 1, 2004)
History of a breakthrough
Pastrami (October 2, 2004)
Cure for the common deli
The Great Clock of Westminster (October 27, 2004)
Big Ben and beyond
Sarlat La Canéda (November 1, 2004)
Time travel, French style
Bodie, California (November 2, 2004)
The liveliest ghost town in the West
Oradour-sur-Glane (November 3, 2004)
Ghost of a massacred French village
Foucault's Pendulum (November 8, 2004)
Low-tech proof of Earth's rotation
Charlie and His Orchestra (November 10, 2004)
Swing music as Nazi propaganda
The Trapeze (November 12, 2004)
How Jules Léotard revolutionized the circus
The Yo-Yo (November 13, 2004)
Giving an old toy a new spin
New Orleans Walking Tours (November 16, 2004)
Ghosts, vampires, and history
Salzbergwerk Berchtesgaden (November 28, 2004)
Mining salt in Bavaria
The Color Purple (November 29, 2004)
Shades of royalty and mythology
The Wieliczka Salt Mine (December 3, 2004)
Underground city of salt
Halcyon Days (December 14, 2004)
Why tranquility is for the birds
Mincemeat (December 20, 2004)
The dessert that eats like a meal
Folk Etymology (December 22, 2004)
Lazing your way to a bigger vocabulary
Hymir's Cauldron (December 27, 2004)
Thor's goblet-throwing prize
The Invention of the Wheel (December 30, 2004)
The best thing until sliced bread
Cleopatra's Wager (December 31, 2004)
The most expensive meal in history
Origin of the Trophy Cup (January 1, 2005)
Handing it to the winner
The Tunnels of Moose Jaw (January 8, 2005)
Underground legends
Sutro Baths (January 16, 2005)
Diving into the past
The Thinker (January 18, 2005)
The story behind Rodin's famous sculpture
Palacio Barolo (January 19, 2005)
The divine office building
The Battle of Dunkirk (January 21, 2005)
Triumph of His Majesty's Bathtub Navy
Introduction to Patagonia (January 23, 2005)
The great southern frontier
The Legend of Deolinda Correa (January 26, 2005)
Unofficial saint of the desert
Groundhog Day (February 2, 2005)
The strange ritual of marmot meteorology
Saint Bernards (February 3, 2005)
Rescuing the rescuers
New Orleans Cemeteries (February 7, 2005)
Cities of the dead
Legends of Tierra del Fuego (February 22, 2005)
The incredible shrinking southern continent
Extinction of the Yámana (February 24, 2005)
The end of the race at the end of the world
Cueva de las Manos (February 25, 2005)
Ancient spray-painted art in Patagonia
The Stone Balls of Costa Rica (March 8, 2005)
Mystery spheres as lawn ornaments
Alcatraz (March 9, 2005)
Fact and fiction on The Rock
Petra (March 10, 2005)
The city of stone
Anabaptism (March 13, 2005)
The third way of Christianity
Père-Lachaise Cemetery (March 15, 2005)
Final resting place of Paris's rich and famous
Mouth Music (March 16, 2005)
Music without instruments
St. Patrick (March 17, 2005)
The man and the myths
The Sinking City of Venice (March 21, 2005)
Atlantis redux
The Oak Island Mystery (March 23, 2005)
Nova Scotia's notorious money pit
Weather Station Kurt (March 27, 2005)
Nazi weather forecasts from Canada
Raku (April 6, 2005)
Zen and the art of tea bowls
Murano Glass (April 8, 2005)
The mirror of Venice
The Toast (April 13, 2005)
Here's to the ritual of raised glasses
The Bavarian Purity Law (April 14, 2005)
Beer and tradition
The Voynich Manuscript (April 17, 2005)
Cryptography's holy grail
Dead Media (April 19, 2005)
Preserving past communication for the future
Mail Recovery Centers (April 21, 2005)
Undead letter offices
Optical Telegraphs (April 22, 2005)
18th century wireless telecommunications
Safety Coffins (April 23, 2005)
The fact and fiction of dead ringers
Clepsydras (April 26, 2005)
Watching time flow with water clocks
The Longitude Problem (April 27, 2005)
Finding your way around the world with a watch
The Antikythera Mechanism (April 28, 2005)
Computer from ancient Greece
Leap Seconds (April 29, 2005)
Time keeps on slippin'
The Crypt of Civilization (April 30, 2005)
Museum in a time capsule
The Paperclip (May 1, 2005)
The twisted tale of paper's best friend
Bakelite (May 2, 2005)
The Plastic Age
House of the Future (May 3, 2005)
Disneyland's 1957 all-plastic house
The Wet Collodion Process (May 6, 2005)
Developing a better negative
The Story of Toilet Paper (May 7, 2005)
What goes around, comes around
The Pont d'Avignon (May 8, 2005)
Miracle bridge to nowhere
The Autogyro (May 10, 2005)
Taking the proto-helicopter for a spin
The 1715 Spanish Plate Fleet (May 11, 2005)
Disaster on the Treasure Coast
Leonardo's Robots (May 12, 2005)
Renaissance man meets mechanical man
Passenger Pigeons (May 13, 2005)
The great American extinction
Tableware Taboos (May 20, 2005)
Civilizing Mealtime
Optical Painters' Aids (May 21, 2005)
A matter of perspective
Emperor Norton (May 26, 2005)
Monarch of San Francisco
Highgate Cemetery (June 2, 2006)
Toto, I don't think we're in London anymore
Llívia (June 12, 2006)
A little piece of Spain in France
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct (June 21, 2006)
Engineering marvel of the Canal Age
Project Habakkuk (June 26, 2006)
Building aircraft carriers out of ice
The Nazca Lines (July 5, 2006)
Peru's mysterious geoglyphs
Radio Call Letters (July 10, 2006)
Minding your K's and W's
E Clampus Vitus (August 2, 2006)
Brotherhood of the absurd
Saint-Pierre & Miquelon (August 7, 2006)
France’s North American territory
Polywater (August 9, 2006)
The new form of water that almost was
Doble Steam Cars (September 1, 2006)
The steam engine's last stand
The Swedish Ship Götheborg (September 13, 2006)
Rebuilding history
Micronations (September 20, 2006)
Starting your own country
The Dalahäst (September 25, 2006)
Symbol of Sweden
Teatro La Fenice (October 2, 2006)
The phoenix of Venice
Guédelon Castle (October 25, 2006)
History in the making
Sears Modern Homes (November 13, 2006)
Ordering houses by mail
Skara Brae (November 20, 2006)
House of sand and rock
Mystery Park (December 1, 2006)
The theme park that aliens built
Pitcairn Island (December 4, 2006)
Haven for homeless mutineers
Portmeirion (December 15, 2006)
The Folly of Sir Clough Williams-Ellis
Ethogeology (February 13, 2007)
Animals as seismographs
The Wallace Line (February 23, 2007)
Evolution and continental drift
Tulipomania (April 6, 2007)
The quest for the perfect tulip
The Woodwose (April 18, 2007)
Bigfoot's European cousin
The Discovery of Radium (January 30, 2008)
Marie Curie's miracle cure
The Unknown Woman of the Seine (March 19, 2008)
Breathing new life into a mystery
