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Photograph of visitors at a window of the Philadelphia Mint in 1888

Why the Penny Lasted 232 Years, and Why the Mint Finally Stopped Making It

Priya Raman · October 22, 2026

Photograph of the twelfth-century Lewis chessmen, carved from walrus ivory, set out on a red and white board in the British Museum

Why We Say Checkmate: A Persian Phrase That Followed Chess Out of India

Eleanor Whitcombe · October 22, 2026

Black and white aerial photograph of the colliery spoil tips on the hillside above Aberfan, with the terraced streets of the village along the left edge, from the 1967 tribunal of inquiry report

Aberfan at 60: The Coal Tip That Buried a School After Ignored Warnings

Marcus Delacroix · October 21, 2026

Photograph of Joshua Norton, self-proclaimed Emperor Norton I, seated with a cane, in a military style coat with epaulettes and a plumed cap, taken before 1880

World Figureheads

Emperor Norton: The Bankrupt Who Ruled San Francisco for Twenty-One Years

Tomás Ferreira · October 21, 2026

An Amish horse and buggy on a country road in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Fascinating Facts About the Amish That Few People Know

Priya Raman · October 21, 2026

Four Halloween guisers in skull and wrestling masks, one holding a toy guitar, sitting on a sofa in Baltasound, Shetland

How Trick-or-Treating Began, From Soul Cakes to a 1927 Alberta Newspaper

Hannah Lindqvist · October 21, 2026

Portrait of the young King Charles II of Spain, the last Spanish Habsburg

Strange History

Incredible Individuals With Unique Genetic Traits

Jonah Okafor · October 21, 2026

Imre Nagy, in glasses and a dark suit, seated at a table between József Darvas and Júlia Rajk at a reunion in the Kossuth Club, Budapest, 13 October 1956

World Figureheads

Seventy Years On, Hungary Still Cannot Decide Where to Put Imre Nagy

Tomás Ferreira · October 20, 2026

The Eiffel Tower lit up at night during the 1925 Exposition des Arts Décoratifs, on a tinted postcard

Strange History

The Con Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower for Scrap, Then Tried It Again

Jonah Okafor · October 20, 2026

Annie Edson Taylor standing beside her oak barrel, which is labelled 'Annie Edson Taylor / Heroine of Niagara Falls / Oct 24 1901', in a formal black dress

Strange History

The Schoolteacher Who Went Over Niagara Falls in a Barrel on Her 63rd Birthday

Hannah Lindqvist · October 20, 2026

Illustration of a Pony Express rider galloping past a relay station with a stagecoach and mountains behind

165 Years Ago This Week, One Telegraph Wire Killed the Pony Express in Two Days

Priya Raman · October 20, 2026

Fragments of the Fasti Antiates Maiores, the pre-Julian Roman calendar painted on plaster, showing the columns of months with festival names

Why October Is the Tenth Month, and Why Two Emperors Could Not Rename It

Eleanor Whitcombe · October 20, 2026

A 1918 American poster showing Uncle Sam shaking hands with a boy with a clock for a head, announcing that daylight saving ends on Sunday 27 October

Why We Still Change the Clocks: A Wartime Coal Measure That Never Went Away

Marcus Delacroix · October 20, 2026

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Around the World in Sculptures

History All Day Staff

X-ray of a pacemaker inside a human chest/Fingers holding an illustration of DNA/Birth control pills from the 1960s

World Figureheads

The Most Important Inventions Which Have Transformed Our World Since the 1950s

Lauren Folkas

A German WWII military tank recovered from the Czarna Nida River

'It's Worth a Fortune': Missing Bergepanther Used by Nazi Germany During World War II Discovered

Carissa Moore

A historical X-craft midget submarine displayed in a museum

These Tiny Submarines Changed the Course of the War at Normandy

Georgia McKoy

The Colosseum in Rome

Discover What Living in Ancient Rome Was Really Like

Alyssa Miller

Man is surprised to hear about what unfolded during the recent F1 Grand Prix of Monaco

Historical Facts That Sound Fake But Are Completely True

Georgia McKoy

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Strange History

Scan Reveals Mummy Hidden in A 1000-Year-Old Buddha Statue

Lisa Lee

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Mother Of Eight Becomes Unlikely Hero After Rescuing Shipwrecked Sailors in Scotland

Lydia Iseh

The crowd at the Woodstock festival in August 1969

Woodstock 1969: The Farm Festival That Ran Out of Everything but People

Hannah Lindqvist · Updated October 20, 2026

Strange History

Getting Some Answers About the Mysterious Prehistoric City That Has Left Scientists Baffled for Years

History All Day Staff

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Archeologists Discover an Ancient Mayan City in the Forest That's Been Hidden for 2,000 Years

Lindsey Charleston