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An ice cream war
The Turkish flag flown, and rifles used, by Mullah Abdullah and Gool Mohammed in their two-man war against the British empire launched at Broken Hill, New South Wales, on 1 January 1915 The war seemed...
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The mystery of the five wounds
St Francis receives the stigmata. From a foil plaque on a 13th- century reliquary. On September 14, 1224, a Saturday, Francis of Assisi—noted ascetic and holy man, future saint—was preparing to enter...
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Murder in the Potala
The Potala Palace, Lhasa: home to nine successive Dalai Lamas, a number of them suspiciously short-lived. Few buildings inspire awe in quite the way that the Potala Palace does. Set high on the great...
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A visit to the underworld: the unsolved mystery of the tunnels at Baia
Baia and the Bay of Naples, painted by J.M.W. Turner in 1823, well before modernisation of the area obliterated most traces of its Roman past. Image: Wikicommons. Now revised and updated to September...
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Lost in the Taiga
The Siberian taiga in the Abakan district. Six members of the Lykov family lived in this remote wilderness for more than 40 years–utterly isolated and more than 150 miles from the nearest human...
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The child murder that gave voodoo its bad name
This engraving–probably made from a contemporary photograph–shows the eight Haitian “voodoo” devotees found guilty in February 1864 of the murder and cannibalism of a 12-year-old child. From Harper’s...
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