Stories for REMORANDOM

  German engineer Ernst Walter Hoffmeister designed and patented an amusement park attraction in 1948 that would earn him fame … and a modest amou...

  "Typhoid Mary" is the nickname given to Mary Mallon, a woman who became infamous in the early 20th century for spreading typhoid fever, a deadly...

  Some stories are just too good not to be embraced and embellished. And so it was for the story of how a 1938 radio dramatisation of an alien inv...

  The Industrial Revolution brought about significant changes to UK society, including a proliferation of coal mines, factories and the need for a...

  “Game changer” has become an overused turn of phrase, but few would argue that it doesn’t apply to "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band”, a gr...

  The peace symbol started life as a symbol for the British anti-nuclear movement in 1958. It was designed by Gerald Holtom (1914–1985) and presen...