Locations for the Garden of Eden
The locations of the Garden of Eden are claimed to be in Iraq, China and Japan as Tony McMahon discovers
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The rat that was executed for murder!
Tsar Peter III of Russia is remembered as the man who executed a rat for murder – well, chewing the head off one of his toy soldiers
How a horse became a Roman senator!
The emperor Caligula made his favourite horse Incitatus a Roman senator but was it an act of madness or a political statement?
The shortest war in history – just 40 minutes!
The shortest war in history was between the British Empire and the sultanate of Zanzibar lasting just 40 minutes
The woman who gave birth to rabbits
Mary Toft was a woman who claimed to have given birth to rabbits so how did she fool so many people in 18th century England?