In the 1973 novel The Princess Bride, Buttercup and Westley are taken by surprise when they are suddenly attacked by “rodents of unusual size,” or ROUS. The book describes the beasts as a “pure rat ...
Paul Kevin Curtis was an Elvis impersonator from Tupelo, Mississippi who was known by locals for his eccentric personality and bizarre conspiracy theories about the city hospital's involvement in ...
As French troops prepared to face Ottoman forces in Rosetta, Egypt, in July 1799, they stumbled upon a chunk of carved stone. Stuck into the wall of a fort, it displayed three languages — and soon ...
These monumental discoveries left even the experts stunned. The world of archaeology is not always as exciting as it is portrayed in films like Indiana Jones. But while researchers are rarely risking ...