Articles by Dan Lewis

In the summer of 1959, a group of fishermen made their way to the Galapagos Islands, specifically the tiny [...]

In June of 2012, a 22-year-old man was arrested in the Washington, D.C. area, for trying to rob a bank. If [...]

In the early 1950s, the predecessor to the California Department of Transportation (colloquially [...]

  Most famous pieces of stolen art are stolen because they’re famous. But the picture above — a [...]

If you’ve ever taken a subway in a major city — or if you’ve been anywhere else that large numbers [...]

In the late 1800s, a man named John Harvey Kellogg invented the cereal now known as Corn Flakes, and a few [...]

The video above is a bit more than 30 seconds long. It features a young woman carrying a gold foil bag of [...]

English author Mary Shelley first published “Frankenstein” in 1818, the story of a mad scientist (Victor [...]

For centuries, the smallpox disease claimed the lives of huge numbers of people around the world. In the [...]

  In 1982, Tommy Tutone came out with the song “867-5309/Jenny,” the music video of which [...]