Two Kings Spent Millions To Throw Themselves A Party For Over Two Weeks (Cool Weird Awesome 1254)
Today in 1520 the beginning of what may have been the biggest, most expensive party of all time, involving two kings, 18 days and $19 million.
Today in 1520 the beginning of what may have been the biggest, most expensive party of all time, involving two kings, 18 days and $19 million.
It wasn't an actual war, but in the 1980s France and Spain were in a pretty serious dispute over stop signs placed on a road between a little Spanish enclave in southwestern France and the rest of Spain.
There's a newspaper in France that’s only published every four years: the leap day paper known as La Bougie du sapeur.
It's been called “the most ridiculous duel in history": two guys in France apparently decided to duel while they were flying hot air balloons.
Sometime on this night in 1920 the president of France fell out of a moving train. And the story got weirder from there.
Today in 2021, the BBC reported on a very unusual happening: a farmer in Belgium accidentally redrew the country’s border with France.
It's known as the House in the Loire, and it's a popular sight for those on Loire River boat tours. But it's not a house on a formerly dry site that later flooded; nor does anyone live there.
In Rambouillet, France, a startup is developing street lights that are bioluminescent - they’re powered by bacteria that glow.
Change is in the air in the border region between Spain and France. A small island there called Pheasant Island is about to change countries, as it does twice a year.
And in France, there's a robot on a sugar high looking to break into soda machines