It may sound like the name of a 70s progressive rock band, but The Prince Philip Movement is actually a religious cult from Vanuatu in the South Pacific. Unbelievable as it may seem, there are some villagers on the island of Tanna who really believe that Prince Philip...
At home, I’m always finding out-of-place objects, but they’re usually fairly mundane – a CD in the wrong case, a spoon in the fork tray, that sort of thing. In archaeological terms, however, out of place artefacts (or OOPArts, as some people insist on...
Centralia sounds like the name of a fictional capital city, perhaps one protected by a superhero, but no superheroes live in the real Centralia – in fact, hardly anyone lives there anymore. The town, in Pennsylvania, USA, used to be home to over two thousand people...
Father Christmas is a global figure; one of the world’s most recognisable celebrities. He may go by various different names – Santa Claus, Papa Noël, Ông Già Nô-en – but his appearance and present delivery methods are always the same. (And why wouldn’t they be?...
As human beings, we’re not very well suited to low temperatures: we shiver, bits of us shrivel up and, in extreme cases, we can even die from the cold. Luckily, as a species, we’ve found ways to cope with our biological shortcomings – if our skin...
