Mr Snuffleupagus was a tragic figure of American entertainment in the late 60s and 70s. Despite achieving a small cult following, Snuffy...

It's 1990 in Sydney, Australia. A petty criminal named Paul Charles Dozsa gets shoved into a police car. The confrontation, caught on...

Cheese Cutting was once a popular sport, but sadly, it no longer draws the raucous crowds for which it was once famed. Beginnings...

The sport of Competitive Absence was featured in the 1908 London Olympics, but not without controversy. The rules were simple: enter the...

The self-evident aphorisms of Haruki Fukashima have failed to increase in popularity in recent years, which is part of his appeal, among...

The Great Teddy Bear Scourge of the 1950s was a dark episode in post-Word-War-Two Japan. Unruly Teddies roamed the Japan in menacing...

In these troubling, modern-times, it's comforting to examine the words of wise Middle-Eastern chaps from two millennia past. The...

London's 18th century Floral and Horticultural Society was a hotbed of indecent behaviour, the details of which are best not mentioned....

Fishermen caught Samuel George Davis Jr off the coast of Long Island after he became entangled in a net with swordfish and tuna. He was...

Tommy 'Bucky' Hamilton is an all but forgotten comedian - which is part of his comic genius. Although few remember his name, his legacy...

Aside from being a prolific Non Stamp Collector, Hamish ‘H’ Smythe was a master at not appearing in photographs. He envisaged the...

Requiem in 3D was the last piece of music created by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Composing it killed him. It was unfinished at the time of...

Today few people have heard of the Austrian Physicist, Karl Heinz Lipzgraz, yet it was he who brought the Square to public attention....

Although not eating as an aid to not collecting stamps has a long tradition in Tibet, the practice is still considered radical among...

It’s commonly believed that as soon as man could rub two rocks together he created porn, however, it was Luigi Ug (457,671 BC to 457,635...