Reenactment, Atomic Gardening, and Toe Wrestling
Aspiring Generalist
A volcanic eruption indirectly led to the invention of the bicycle.
What it takes to be a Revolutionary War reenactor.
Atomic gardening.
Inside the grit and glory of British toe wrestling:
Disneyland of the dead.
Marcel Heijnen captures loving portraits of feisty, feral felines in ‘City Cats of Istanbul’.
The radical 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet and left thousands of children unable to spell.
Mapping New York Chinatown:
The spooky (and sweet) history of fake blood.
Paris had a moving sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison film captured it in action.
Escapee pregnancy test frogs colonised Wales for 50 years.
One William Woods was telling the truth. The other was living his life.




