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In 1671, an Irish adventurer named Thomas Blood pulled off one of the boldest almost-robberies in British history: he tried to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. Blood disguised himself as a…
In 897, Rome witnessed one of the strangest courtroom scenes in history: a dead pope was dug up, dressed in papal robes, and put on trial. The defendant was Pope Formosus, who had been dead for months. His…
In 1814, London was hit by one of history’s strangest industrial disasters: a flood of beer. At the Horse Shoe Brewery near St. Giles, a huge wooden vat filled with porter suddenly burst. The rupture triggered…