She wears a size 879 shoe
She was tweaked! The Statue of Liberty was originally destined for Egypt. Sculptor Frederic Bartholdi was inspired by the Sphinx and wanted to construct a lighthouse twice its size. Egypt went…
A toy is born!
Brooklyn inventor and designer George Lerner came up with a revolutionary idea in 1949: a toy that children could design themselves. It came as a set of plastic body…
A Copycat Cookie?
HYDROX cookies, which hit the market in 1908, were actually the real thing. The OREO, made in 1912, was the copycat. The cookie wars began in the 1890’s. The OREO…
A blog with sound effects
If we had dinner with a young Elagabalus, 219CE, Rome, we might see a familiar gag. He used a pig bladder filled air and placed it under an unsuspecting guest.…