The Smithsonian Libraries / Biodiversity Heritage Library has digitised gorgeous Art Nouveau and Art Deco prints of beetles, butterflies and more by Emile-Allian Seguy. Developers have expanded on an app that lets you block your wife. After the Paris Exposition, London wanted its own tower to attract attention (apparently the Tower of London was not enough). The…
When the 11-year-old Willie Lincoln died in the White House in February of 1862, his parents were inconsolable. Lincoln did no official work for three weeks — a president in the midst of a civil war. Mary was deemed by some to have gone insane. While the president slowly began to accept that his son…
The Ouija board, in its current version, dates back to 1891 when three men decided to standardize the “talking board” and market it as a toy. But devices for communing with the spirits had been around for decades. The Fox sisters created their own contraptions for rapping and moaning. Spiritualists made tables float and made…