Tycho’s Moose

Made from obsidian and used for what he called “angelic communications”, John Dee’s mirror did no small amount of damage to his reputation.

Mao Zedong’s ‘Four Pests’ campaign in 1958 caused the near-extinction of the Eurasian Tree Sparrow which, in turn, contributed to 20m+…

In 1929, La Langouste Française hired 30 people to go lobster fishing in l’Île Saint Paul. For 7 of them, life would never be the same…

While Thomas Edison and/or the Lumiere brothers are popularly credited with the invention of the moving picture — something which Edison…

Running from Ocean City, Maryland on the U.S. east coast all the way to Sacramento in California, U.S. Route 50 cuts an impressive swathe…

In the Spring of 1860, a flock estimated at 3.7 billion Passenger Pigeons flew over Ontario. Eleven years later, some 136 million breeding…

It seems fitting that the most isolated spot on the planet should be an inhospitable, glacier-covered rock sitting smack in the path of the…

Since opening its doors to students in 1905, the Alfred Denny Zoology Museum at Sheffield University remained a largely unknown cabinet of…

Boulevard du Temple was taken in Paris in 1838/1839 by Louis Daguerre, inventor of the daguerrotype process – the first commercially…