1847 Scientific American wants to tell you about the romantic and tragic story of a lovelorn gazelle's suicide.
Fun with digitized magazine archives
A stolen slice of watermelon sparked a deadly 1856 riot in Panama
On the evening of April 15, 1856, an American named Jack Oliver took a slice of watermelon from a Panama City vendor, José Manuel Luna, and refused to pay the… READ THE REST
How a businessman's hunch became New Age gospel
Alfred Watkins was driving across the hills near Blackwardine, in Herefordshire, when he looked out at the landscape and thought he saw a pattern. Ancient mounds, hilltop beacons, old churches,… READ THE REST
Her wedding necklace cost $75,000. She died guarding a worthless mine
In March 1935, Sue Bonnie pushed through three feet of snow to her friend's cabin on Fryer Hill outside Leadville, Colorado. She and Tom French broke a window and found… READ THE REST
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