The con artist who led an army to rob a city
Meet the shoemaker and con artist who led an army to rob a city. Wilhelm Voigt, from Tilsit, Prussia (now Sovetsk, Russia), was happy to find employment as a shoemaker. He had just settled in Berlin after serving a 15-year sentence for a failed burglary attempt. It was not his first prison term, and it […]
Mental disorders in the Hundred Acre Wood
Each character in Winnie-the-Pooh represents a mental disorder. Which one are you? Winnie-the-Pooh, the anthropomorphic teddy bear and protagonist of A.A. Milne’s iconic children’s book just turned 96. The book was released on October 14, 1926, as a collection of stories set in the fictionalized Hundred Acre Wood. Appealing to children and young adults, the […]
Cartier Santos-Dumont
The picture shows a Cartier Santos-Dumont, the first men’s watch ever built. Relaunched by the legendary jeweler in 2020, this iconic timepiece dates back to the dawn of aviation. It is named after flight pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont who pulled off an unprecedented feat: being the first to fly from Parc Saint Cloud to the Eiffel […]
How do You Do That?!
The conference opens with an address in a foreign language. The speaker launches headlong into a highly complex subject at breakneck speed. The talk is replete with terms whose spelling I can only guess, most of which encoded in the alphabet soup of acronyms. To make matters worse, he insists on cracking jokes as culturally-specific […]