The Day the Mona Lisa Disappeared
A painter named Louis Béroud walked into the Salon Carré of the Louvre to sketch the Mona Lisa on Tuesday morning, August 22, 1911. Instead, he found four iron ...
Tag: European History
The Statue of Liberty Comes to America
The statue that would become one of the most famous in the world arrived in New York Harbor on the morning of June 17, 1885. The ship that carried her, the Fren...
The Munich Agreement
The question was how to keep the peace. And British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain wanted peace. He had seen what war does. Had lost family to it. He knew t...
The First Official Postcard
The postcard is just a slight paper rectangle that travels naked in the world — no envelope, no seal, nothing to hide the writing from all the eyes along its jo...
Dr. Joseph Lister
On August 12, 1865, eleven-year-old James Greenlees was brought into the male accident ward of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary with his left shinbone protruding thr...