That Time Harvard and Yale Took Naked Photos of All Their Freshmen Students
Somewhere out there is a naked photograph of Hillary Clinton… Between the 1940s and the…
Category Obscure history
The 1970s Political Activist Who Invented Penis Pants
Introducing Eldridge Clever, Presidential candidate, writer, political activist, a prominent early leader of the Black…
Ladies’ Smoker Night, 1941
I think I need to step up my ladies’ night game– these gals I found filed away…
Inside the Paris Brothels of the Belle Époque
Behind the number 12, rue Chabanais, a typical building on a typical back street not…
All Aboard the 1970s Sex Raft Experiment: the Best Reality TV Show That Never Was
Five men, six women and one 101-day, sex-starved ocean adventure. Has a catchy ring to…
The Bittersweet Story of the World’s First Motel
It’s as American as Apple Pie in all its neon-lit glory, evoking our collective cultural memory…
How a Mechanical Chess-Playing Turk gave Birth to the AI Debate 250 Years Ago
As we traverse the world of modern digital technology from smart phones to artificial intelligence,…
A Boat Trip through the Paris Sewer
Forget boat rides down the Seine, if you were a tourist in Paris in the…
The Louvre’s Secret Apartments
The Louvre; or, as we’ve prefer to call it, Paris’ most exhaustingly gorgeous tourist trap. In…
Haunting Postcards of Parisian Homicide
Note: Some of the images below contain disturbing content. Alphonse Bertillon was bad at a…
The World’s First Sex Therapist and his Temple of Hymen
Self-styled Scottish ‘doctor’ James Graham may not have been the original snake oil salesman but…
We went on a Picnic in a Parisian Nazi Bunker
I‘ve been on some adventures in my lifetime, but none of them ended with a…