Planet Curiosities

  The planet is full of wonders that defy logic, places where nature seems to bend its own rules and

  When the last commuter disappears into the glow of a closing train door and the evening crowds dissolve into

  If you believe lightning never strikes the same place twice, you haven’t met Roy Cleveland Sullivan—a U.S. park ranger

  In the winter of 1980, a young woman named Jean Hilliard was driving through rural Minnesota when her car

  In 1964, a young Welshman named Brian Robson found himself stranded in Australia. He had taken part in a

 In the shadowy corners of European history, the line between superstition and law was often blurred. People were tried for

  For centuries, King Richard III was a figure shrouded in controversy. Immortalized by Shakespeare as a twisted villain with

  In the spring of 1841, the United States was preparing to welcome its ninth president, William Henry Harrison. He

  In the annals of military history, few campaigns are as bizarre—or as humbling—as the Great Emu War of 1932.

  Some stories feel mythic. Too improbable to be real. And yet, they are. One such story belongs to Tsutomu