Wonders and Marvels

WE MISS YOU! Wonders & Marvels has been magnificently redesigned. You can still find us at http://www.wondersandmarvels.com But, you wi...

By Julia Clegson  My research for East of the Sun began when I was five years old and met a remarkable woman called Mrs. Smith Pearse.  ...

By Susan Holloway Scott A great many important historical events occurred during the reign of Charles II (1660-1685), including the last out...

Who can identify the edifice above? Send along your most interesting bit of lesser-known (and documented) trivia about it or a personal sto...

By Holly Tucker For your viewing pleasure: a classic illustration from Gaspare Tagliacozzi's De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem (1597...

By Peter C. Mancall On April 17, 1610, the English sea captain Henry Hudson maneuvered his small ship called Discovery out of St. Katherine...

History has often been marked contrasts, "before's," and "after's." BC/AD, Medieval/Renaissance, pre-industri...

Do Mandrakes Really Scream? This was a question that the National Library of Medicine posed in their magnificent "Magic and Medicine ...

By David Farley When I first heard about the Holy Foreskin, I thought—like a lot of people—it was a joke , either the title of a foreskin fe...

What time is it, you say? If you were living before the 18th century, you would not look at your wrist watch. No, you'd slip a portable ...