Having a belly was a good thing once. Men in Victorian time carried with pride and joy their bellies, since rounded stature was a synonym for wealth and good fortune. Even the men working in circus, lifting weight and dealing with wild animals were over weighed. Anyway, it was just one guy enough to enter [...]

Ashrita Furman, an American, grew up in Queens, was born in 1954, the very time when the first Book of Guinness World Records was published. It was published only in 1000 copies.

By Christmas that year, “Guinness” became the most selling book in UK. The publishers all over the world became interested in this book, so [...]

The story about Winchester House began with baby girl named Sarah born to Leonard and Sarah Pardee of New Haven, Connecticut in September 1839. Why she is important to this story, you will soon find out.
In the early 1860s, she met a man named William Wirth Winchester, who was the son of Oliver Winchester; the [...]