When Paris Printers Went After the Cats
In 1730s Paris a crew of low-paid printing apprentices literally held mock funerals and massacred neighborhood cats as a dark, theatrical protest - and a historian smelled a story worth savoring.Read More 
They Almost Floated an Aircraft Carrier Made of Ice and I Love It
In WWII Britain briefly tried to build unsinkable floating airbases from 'pykrete'-a frozen mix of ice and wood pulp-because history enjoys a laugh.Read More 
Cadaver Synod: They Put a Pope on Trial
In 897 Rome literally dug up Pope Formosus, sat his corpse on a throne, and humiliated him in the most bureaucratic of ways.Read More 