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
futility closet In 1817, a young woman claiming to be a kidnapped Eastern princess appeared in an English village Futility Closet
futility closet Linda Burfield Hazzard's "fasting cure" killed multiple patients in the early 20th century Futility Closet
futility closet In the early 1900s, two young brothers made several daring trips across the United States Futility Closet
futility closet In 1944, an English pointer gave heart to an Allied prison camp in Sumatra Futility Closet
futility closet In 1977, a German tourist spent three days in Bangor, Maine, thinking it was San Francisco Futility Closet
