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A lone wolf almost killed Hitler
In November 1939, a bomb ripped through a crowded Munich beer hall moments after its target walked out the door. The target was Adolf Hitler and he m…
10 hours ago
The lost shipwreck that started a navy
A warship born from panic. A cannon that was never fired. A shipwreck that's been lost for over a century. And one man determined to find it.
Dr Jame…
1 week ago
Fake names and forbidden love at sea
In 1766, a "man" named Jean boarded a French naval ship as a botanist's valet. But Jean was hiding a secret. For years, that secret sailed around the…
2 weeks ago
Jon Ronson, the Manosphere and a Castle
A castle sits in the streets of American suburbia and from the outside it looks bizarre. But what’s on the inside is even weirder...
A dog named Cerb…
3 weeks ago
Australia's secret slave trade
From the mid-1800s, more than 62,000 Pacific Islanders were kidnapped, tricked or coerced into labour on Queensland's sugar and cotton plantations.
Ry…
4 weeks ago
The Pastry War: Half-baked diplomacy
A ransacked bakery. A wildly inflated bill. A demand so absurd it should have been laughed out of the room. Instead it triggered warships.
In 1838, F…
1 month ago
The Pig War: Hogging the border
A pig trots over an invisible border, wandering into a potato farmer's garden. It's not the first time it's trespassed but it is the last.
The farmer…
1 month, 1 week ago
The mythical football war
It’s called The Football War and raged for just 100 hours. It’s a catchy name for a conflict supposedly sparked by a World Cup qualifier game.
But be…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Birds 1 - Humans 0
In 1932 Australia sent soldiers with machine guns to stop 20,000 emus rampaging through wheat fields.
What followed was a national embarrassment and …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The man who gave the gods new faces
Their faces are everywhere: on calendars, incense packets, and soap packaging. But how did the Hindu deities' faces go beyond temples and shrines?
In…
2 months ago