Message Sticks: How Aboriginal Australia Sent Mail Without Writing
Message sticks: small carved wooden objects Aboriginal Australians used to send invitations and diplomacy acro...
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Two Cafes, One Cake: The Battle Over Vienna's Original Sachertorte
Vienna's Sachertorte has a legal saga behind it: Hotel Sacher vs Demel. Here's the story of the Original cake fight — and where to eat it.
Gadling · 13 Sep 2026 · Austria
From the American Plains to the Casino Floor: Why Buffalo Slots Conquered the World
Why the buffalo became casino gaming's most enduring symbol, how wildlife slots evolved since the early 2000s,...
Pigeon whistles, a lost typeface and England's secret Wild West: this week's most curious finds
Pigeon whistles in Beijing, a secret Wild West town in England, the Thames' lost typeface and the first robot...
Steyning: The Small West Sussex Market Town That Makes an Easy South Downs Escape
Why Steyning in West Sussex — a pretty market town under the South Downs an hour from London — makes a great d...
Sans-Souci: The Ruined Palace Where Haiti's Only King Played Versailles
Sans-Souci, Haiti's ruined royal palace at Milot: how former slave Henri Christophe crowned himself king, buil...
Vintage Cameras, a €1.48m Glass Loft and Josephine Baker's Broadway Bust: This Week's Best of the Weird Web
A glass loft in Montmartre for €1.48m, Josephine Baker's 1936 Broadway disaster and other travel-worthy finds...
Florence's Wine Windows: Tiny Renaissance Hatchets With a Surprisingly Modern Story
Florence's buchette del vino — tiny Renaissance wine windows built in 1559, forgotten for a century, then revi...
Kubizuka: The Tokyo Shrine Where a Warrior's Head Still (Allegedly) Glowers
Tokyo's kubizuka shrines hold the severed heads of executed samurai, meant to calm vengeful spirits. Masakado'...
Berthe Weill: the Paris dealer who made Picasso and Matisse — and finally gets her due
Berthe Weill, the forgotten Paris gallerist behind Picasso, Matisse and Modigliani's first shows — her story a...
Kenting's Sunny Shores Hide a Forgotten US Military Defeat
The 1867 Formosa Expedition: how 180 US Marines failed against Paiwan fighters near Cape Eluanbi, and what tha...
Unproductive: The Sci-Fi Comedy Short That Roasts Your To-Do List App
Unproductive, a sci-fi comedy short from Black Elk Films, stars Jason Farries as a man whose MOTIV AI assistan...