At one appointed minute, Sweden stopped, shifted, and restarted on the other side of the road.

Tambora did not erase the season; it loaded the stratosphere with a sun-dimming veil that made summer behave badly far from Indonesia.

Krakatau's eruption traveled around the planet as particles that kept catching sunlight after local dusk.

For a revolutionary interval, noon moved to five and the day became a decimal fraction.

Victorian London once put the post on tiny rails and let air pressure do the pulling.

Victor Lustig posed as a government official and persuaded a scrap dealer that the Eiffel Tower was secretly for sale.

An 1859 dispute over a shot pig escalated into an armed confrontation on San Juan Island without a battle between the two forces.

In 1876, pieces of tissue fell over a farm in Bath County, Kentucky, prompting competing scientific explanations.

Open a richly decorated European manuscript from the 13th or 14th century and the margins may stage a battle nobody requested: an armored knight jousting with a giant snail.