In 1854, London inaugurated a rather odd railway track aimed at carrying dead bodies to…
Author: Nicolas
Ingrédients : 30% d'anecdotes insolites, 25% de livres poussiéreux, et le reste de curiosité névrosée. Rédacteur en chef adjoint chez Histoire & Conséquences, auteur du livre Les hasards qui ont fait l'Histoire (2020).
In October 1962, the world was on the verge of nuclear collapse. Both the US…
“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness,” Aristotle wrote. Mental decay…
The history of piracy conveys chaotic images: beardy buccaneers squandering the day’s loot in rhum…
Bat bombs, inflatable tanks, human torpedoes… Secret services or military headquarters happen to have some…
