futility closet In the 1920s, painters of luminous watch dials began to fall mysteriously ill Futility Closet
futility closet A French spy, a transatlantic voyage, and the birth of the modern strawberry Futility Closet
futility closet In 1864, two ships were wrecked on the same remote island. Unaware of each other, their crews struggled to survive Futility Closet
futility closet In 1959, Marine pilot William Rankin parachuted through a violent thunderstorm Futility Closet
futility closet In 1850, a Nile hippo created a stir when it arrived at the London Zoo Futility Closet
futility closet In 1857, guests at Washington D.C.'s National Hotel began to come down with a mysterious illness Futility Closet
futility closet It's still uncertain who fired the shot that killed Manfred von Richthofen Futility Closet
futility closet In 1898 a Belgian ship was frozen into the ice off the coast of Antarctica Futility Closet
futility closet In 1838 Frenchwoman Henriette d'Angeville set out to climb Mont Blanc despite almost universal opposition Futility Closet
futility closet For nearly 50 years, Martin Couney ran a sideshow in which babies were displayed in incubators Futility Closet
futility closet In 1945, a group of American soldiers set out to rescue hundreds of horses from a Nazi farm in Czechoslovakia Futility Closet
futility closet In 1844, New Orleans slave Sally Miller claimed to be a free German immigrant pressed into bondage Futility Closet
futility closet Waldemar Haffkine is largely unremembered, despite developing vaccines against both cholera and bubonic plague Futility Closet
futility closet Fraudster James Reavis claimed to own 18,000 square miles of the American West in the 1880s Futility Closet
