Stories

In July 1518, in Strasbourg, a woman stepped into the street and began dancing uncontrollably. Within days, between 50 and 400 people joined her, dancing day and night.

There, in the gutter, he found a delirious man dressed in ragged clothes. It was Edgar Allan Poe.

In July 2013, 28-year-old Bernardo Leónidas Quirós left with his wife Alejandra, their two daughters, and their German shepherd Talero for a trip across southern Argentina.

When Jeanne Calment was born in 1875, Alexander Graham Bell had just invented the telephone.

In early 20th-century Washington State, Linda Hazzard operated Wilderness Heights, a sanitarium where patients came seeking health through extreme fasting.

In the early 20th century, Serge Voronoff, a French surgeon of Russian origin, made headlines across Europe. Having trained under Nobel Prize-winning scientist Alexis Carrel, Voronoff specialized in transplants—but not just any kind.

In 1963, a group of West German students in Berlin set out to dig a tunnel under the Berlin Wall.

Between the 13th and 18th centuries, courts across Europe tried animals for crimes.

Long before electricity reached the sea, ships faced a dangerous problem: how to light the decks below without risking fire.

In July 1951, Sweden watched in amazement as 66-year-old Nils Gustaf Håkansson cycled the entire Sverigeloppet, a grueling 1,764 km (1,096 miles) race from Haparanda to Ystad.