All this little monkey was missing was corduroy britches. “Jack was the pet and assistant of double leg amputee signalman James Wide, who worked for the Cape Town–Port Elizabeth Railway service. James “Jumper” Wide had been known for jumping between railcars until an accident where he fell and lost both […]
Sadly not a story about history’s strongest man, but lifting an entire city fourteen feet with jackscrews is still pretty interesting! “During the 1850s and 1860s, engineers carried out a piecemeal raising of the level of central Chicago. Streets, sidewalks, and buildings were physically raised on jackscrews. The work was […]
Who was Kaspar Hauser? His life is a complete mystery, probably lost to time forever. Only a small portion of his life is known for a fact, so let’s take a look. “Kaspar Hauser (1812? – 17 December 1833) was a German youth who claimed to have grown up in […]
