futility closet The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora induced a climate crisis and changed world history Futility Closet
futility closet The strange case of Henry Debosnys, who murdered a wealthy widow in New York in 1882 Futility Closet
futility closet A 69-year-old shoemaker came to the Battle of Gettysburg to "shoot the damned rebels" Futility Closet
futility closet In 1769, a Peruvian noblewoman found herself lost and alone in the Amazon rain forest Futility Closet
futility closet One of the worst scientific feuds in history arose between two paleontologists in the 1870s Futility Closet
futility closet A group of African slaves spent 15 years shipwrecked on this tiny island Futility Closet
futility closet Catalina de Erauso fled a convent, dressed as a man, and became a soldier in the New World Futility Closet
futility closet In 1902, a "poison squad" tested dubious food additives by eating them Futility Closet
futility closet The story of one man's obsessive search for the lost treasure of Cocos Island Futility Closet
futility closet In 1869 14 German polar explorers were stranded on an ice floe for six months Futility Closet
futility closet How a brutal 1883 blizzard turned an unlucky fisherman into "the fingerless navigator" Futility Closet
futility closet In November 1961, the two-masted ketch Bluebelle sailed out of the Bahamas and toward a dramatic fate Futility Closet
futility closet Explorer Auguste Piccard conquered both the stratosphere and the deep ocean Futility Closet
futility closet New Zealander Nancy Wake became an intrepid leader in the French resistance against the Nazis Futility Closet
futility closet In the 1810s Mary Anning begin to unearth strange creatures near her English seaside town Futility Closet
