John Denver may have seemed like a wholesome country boy—but there was a disturbing side to him that the public never saw.
Lady Ursula d’Abo didn’t technically come from royalty, but she lived a life just as posh. Sadly, her story is proof that all that glitters isn’t gold.
Today, sending a message takes just a few taps on a screen. But for most of human history, staying in touch required a lot more imagination. Here are some of the strangest and most fascinating ways people communicated before modern technology changed everything.
From his horrifying childhood to his brutal wars and scandalous secrets, too few people know the dark history of Frederick the Great.
After the outlaw Jesse James was killed, his brother Frank made a life-changing decision to go give up his life of crime.
Wingsuit flying is basically what happens when skydivers look at freefall and think, “Great, but what if I could steer across the sky like a flying squirrel?” Athletes wear special suits with fabric wings between the arms and legs, which help create lift after they jump from an aircraft. It is still gravity doing most of the talking, but the suit lets pilots glide, turn, and stretch the flight into something that looks almost unreal.
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