Whiskey on Fire: Dublin’s Bizarre 1875 Disaster That Turned Streets Into a Deadly River of Booze
— April 21, 2026On the warm evening of 18 June 1875 residents of Dublin’s Liberties district heard…
An Israeli woman’s luck made a turn for the worse when she accidentally swallowed a cockroach while cleaning her home. In a futile attempt to remove the bug using a fork, she somehow managed to accidentally swallow that as well. Although details were not available, we suspect the fork was removed intact and the cockroach was probably not quite so lucky.
On the warm evening of 18 June 1875 residents of Dublin’s Liberties district heard…
In the mid-12th century, during the tumultuous reign of King Stephen of England, the…
In the dead of winter 897, inside Rome’s Basilica of St. John Lateran, one…
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