What one small city in Belgium can teach the world about mental illness.Wikimedia CommonsSt. Dymphna Church in Geel, Belgium
The city of Geel, Belgium, has a popular saying: “Half of Geel is crazy, and the rest is half crazy.”
The 35,000-person city is quaint — about an hour east of Antwerp, and an hour south of Belgium’s border with the Netherlands — and has all the charm of a weathered European city. Read More...
What happened on this day in history: Volleyball is invented, Ted Bundy marries Carole Ann Boone during his murder trial, and more events from February 9th.1773: William Henry Harrison Is Born Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesWilliam Henry Harrison died just a month after his inauguration in 1841.
William Henry Harrison is born at Berkeley Plantation in Charles City County, Virginia. A war hero who became the ninth president of the United States in 1841, Harrison holds the dubious honor of serving the shortest amount of time in office. Read More...
The winged hussars originated in the early 16th century when a group of exiled warriors from Serbia banded together as mercenaries in Poland — and within a century, they had become one of the most fearsome cavalries in world history.Public DomainA depiction of a winged hussar from 1912.
In 1694, a group of winged hussars gathered to face an enemy army near the village of Hodów. The battle seemed hopeless. The Polish forces numbered about 400; their rivals had at least 100 times as many soldiers. Read More...
