Utterly interesting

Shellfish tips. Icebox picnics. A white bungalow by the Pacific. In the 1930s Cary Grant and Randolph Scott let fan magazines into their home, and a quiet love story slipped through. How their partnership shaped Grant’s on screen magic and what the clippings still whisper today.

Once the world’s largest women’s asylum, the Salpêtrière Hospital in 19th century Paris became a crucible of science, art, and spectacle. Under Dr. Charcot, thousands of women were studied, and often exploited, in the name of neurology. Their stories reveal how modern psychiatry was born from both progress and prejudice.

In 1944, Nazi troops executed 31 partisans in Bassano del Grappa, hanging them along a tree-lined street. Today, Viale dei Martiri remains a peaceful but powerful symbol of courage, resistance, and remembrance.