From the THG Archive: When a Greek peasant found a sculpture on the island of Milos, France saw a chance to regain lost glory. The History Guy remembers how the ghost of Napoleon helped to turn the armless beauty called the Venus de Milo into one of the most recognized sculptures on earth.
The “Murder at the Regatta” was a story of jealousy, passion, and some say even madness that shocked and fascinated the nation, and changed the very nature of how murder was seen and prosecuted in the United States.