In the short movie Not Just a Bowl of Fruit, the 84-year-old British life model Diana Mukuma reflects on her ageing body while posing.

On R. Frost's book “The Ripper’s Victims in Print" and how the study of history not only tells us about the past, but also about ourselves.

Here are two women who can tell us what it was like to be a teenage girl in London in the late Victorian era. How amazing is that!

Some years ago, I witnessed an interesting happening at the local gym which made me think about the - difficult - act of giving.

...So asks Joy Wiltenburg, professor emerita of history at Rowan University. Hint: it has to do with money, business and competition.

I once bought a book named "The No Diet Diet". It’s a book that tells you how to lose weight, however, not by counting calories though.

Sitting down at my desk and starting to write can sometimes be hard to overcome. Do you know the feeling?

When the Titanic sank, about 700 passengers were rescued. Among them were six Chinese sailors. Their stories have remained untold, until now

Some years ago, I stopped by the Cinema Museum in London...Once [it] was the home of Charlie Chaplin, although only for a short period.

I accidentally stumbled upon this webpage dedicated to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - and oh my! Was he a productive fellow or what!

I sometimes travel using Google Street View. Have you tried that?

Ruth Harkness, American explorer and the first Westerner to capture and bring back a giant panda from China.

“Curiosity killed the cat” the saying goes. I don’t believe that. Actually, I think it is quite the opposite.

In 1971 photographer Claudia Andujar began documenting the lives of a remote indigenous tribe in the Brazilian Amazon jungle.

A weird or mysterious creature, a monster or fantastic being. Meet the Japanese monsters, the Yokais.

William Hope used to work as a carpenter. But in 1905, after capturing an image of a ghost on a photo, he became a spirit photographer.

During the early years of the Cultural Revolution in China, all European music was banned. That didn’t stop Jindong Cai from listening to it

In September 1900, L. Frank Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” sold nearly 15,000 copies - not least because of its illustrations.

In a typical western-thinking mind, the point of a game is to win. In Japan, however, it's about making people feel that they are winners.

Gloria Gaynor's hit "I Will Survive" has had a long journey from the B-side of a record to receiving a Grammy Award a couple of years later.