History Idiot carves his and his girlfriend's initials into the Roman Colosseum (video) David Pescovitz
Culture Watch people in the 1980s resisting laws against drinking and driving: "Pretty soon, it's gonna be a communist country." Mark Frauenfelder
History Peek at the party inside a real Prohibition Era speakeasy in this 1920s film clip (video) David Pescovitz
music The brilliance of Miles Davis's "live score" for the 1958 film Elevator To The Gallows Elías Villoro
History List of historic Quaker names goes viral: Meet Love Beer, Plant Fry, and more Rusty Blazenhoff
books "Who Would Believe a Prisoner?" chronicles America's first separate prison for women Elías Villoro
History Ancient Egyptian tablet is an "attendance sheet" listing excuses for missing work Ruben Bolling