I don’t know about you but I now have a whole new appreciation for these famous people in history who at one point or another, snapped the best burns and comebacks of all time.
The Hindenburg was a behemoth German passenger airship that caught fire, crashed and burned to the ground. This original footage from the British Pathe archive shows impressive shots of the Hindenburg taking its famous flight on May 6, 1937, and during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey, when it … Read more
Dogs are magic, and it’s not just us regular folks who think so. Even America’s most powerful leaders had dogs in the White House that helped them woof the worries away. President John F. Kennedy owned several dogs. He’s seen here with Charlie, a Welsh Terrier. www.terrierman.com President Franklin D. Roosevelt photographed with Falla, … Read more
Madame de Florian was 23 when she fled Paris, France, to escape the Nazi raid in 1942. She locked up her apartment home and never returned. She died at the age of 91. Her family discovered that she’d been paying the rent and upkeep on the apartment for her entire life. They hired an auctioneer … Read more
For Victorians ladies, hair is a woman’s crowning glory, and they liked to flaunt it in many of their photos. During the Victorian era, a girl until the age of 16 wore her hair in braids. When she became a young lady at the age of 16 her hair went up while her hem length … Read more
In 1796 an English doctor named Edward Jenner took incredible risks to get rid of smallpox. His remarkable work is said to have “saved more lives than the work of any other human.” Because of his work and later developments from his endeavors, millions of more lives have been saved. This infographic below is based … Read more