According to the news piece, plans are being drawn up for a “Doomsday ark” to be built on the moon by the European Space Agency.
If the original source story this is based on is true – and I've no reason to suppose it isn't – then it's great material for the basis of a number of stories and it could go pretty much any direction. Basically, for a lot of companies in China, recruiting fake businessmen or having foreigners [...]
In 1900, a sponge diver named Elias Stadiatos discovered the wreck of a Roman cargo ship located near to cape Glyfada in Potamakia, 60m undersea and 30m from the shore of the small island of Antikythera, near Crete, Greece. What made the greatest impression on him as he returned to the surface were the statues [...]
I loved this headline as soon as I saw it because the screenplay possibilities are almost endless. At the time that it first surfaced it was syndicated and referenced and copied all over the web, and although it has subsequently been unveiled as a satire courtesy of this fake USA website (which just goes to [...]
The criminal gangs of New York in the 1800s were predominantly made up of young men, but they also had female members, some of whom were notorious fighters. I came across this fascinating snippet at Ephemeral New York, and given all the hoop-la around Gangs Of New York when it came out, I can’t believe [...]
Inmates escape from a prison in Northern Germany using a home-made shotgun.
An oddly compelling image of female faces packaged supermarket-style like pre-packed meat.