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
futility closet In 1901, two English academics came to believe they'd passed through a memory of Marie Antoinette Futility Closet
futility closet Some New Englanders in the 1800s believed that tuberculosis symptoms were caused by the dead Futility Closet
futility closet In the 1800s, France, England, and the United States each undertook to move a massive Egyptian obelisk Futility Closet
futility closet The first Black American military pilot led a stunning career in wartime France Futility Closet
futility closet In 1932, two German airmen became stranded in the Kimberley region of northwestern Australia Futility Closet
