It happens sometimes that an important discovery is result of something random or a stroke of luck. Extremely lucky was Michael Richardson, librarian of the Special Collection from Bristol University, who was…
Charles Ebbets: the Photographer/Equilibrist who photographed the building of the Rockefeller Center
If the picture right below was recent, probably it would be an edited pic, hence we would end up noticing the details: the two tone shoes, so old fashioned; the position of…
In 1784 Marie Anne Smythe Fitzherbert was already a two times widowed woman, and she was just 27 years old. Woman with some far noble kinship, Mary is still a common person,…
The persimmons seeds, scientifically known as Diospyros kaki, are little seeds of a few cm length but in their inside they keep a very interesting secret. Despite it is hard nowadays to…
182 km (113 miles) divide the city of Bristol and Marlborough, in Southern England. It is a distance that, nowadays, can be covered in a short time by car or train. In…
Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) was an American photographer with German heritage, become popular in history of photography for his reports about Chinatown in San Francisco before the terrible earthquake which wiped out the…
in Recent times a team of Polish archaeologists discovered a Medieval sword and a series of other artifacts on the floor of a Polish lake. The sword and the other objects dates…
During the excavation for a new airport around Mexico city a cemetery with the remains of 60 mammoth has been found, ancient proof of a natural event which exterminated the examples in…
The 15th of June 1215 is a historical date: John King of England signed the Magna Carta, a document that, although in the form of a concession, it would recognise some limitation…
It was supposed to be a simple conservation cleaning and it ended up into a disaster. The last artistic blasphemy of the restoration of an artwork took place in Spain, Valencia to…