In 2017, a woman browsing a thrift store in Manchester, New Hampshire, picked up a framed painting from a pile of art stacked against a wall.

Bubbles was born in 1983 at a primate research facility in Austin, Texas. Michael Jackson acquired him as an infant in the mid 1980s through animal trainer Bob Dunn.

In the early 1980s, parts of Glasgow’s East End saw ice cream vans used as moving fronts for drugs and stolen goods.

In the 1970s, Dutch architect Piet Blom decided to turn architecture on its head—literally. He imagined homes as cubes tilted 45 degrees and raised above the ground on hexagonal pylons.

In 1703, Londoners were captivated by a pale-skinned man claiming to be the first visitor from a distant island called Formosa, now known as Taiwan.

On the morning of August 6, 1945, Streetcar No. 651 of the Hiroshima Electric Railway Company was running its usual route near Chuden-mae station. At 8:15 a.m., the atomic bomb exploded just 700 meters away.

In the chaos of World War II, a bear cub found on a roadside in Iran became one of the most unusual soldiers to serve in the Allied forces.

When astronaut John Glenn refused to launch without her calculations confirmed, the name Katherine Johnson quietly entered space history.

In the early 1990s, British parents were gripped by fear. Reports spread of strangers posing as social workers, arriving unannounced at homes, and taking children “for evaluation,” never to be seen again.

On January 14, 2025, inside Padua’s Palaindoor track, Emma Maria Mazzenga crossed the finish line in 54.47 seconds, setting a new world record in the indoor 200 meters for the W90 category.