Plain Cigarette Packaging, by Jennifer Noon and Sarah Shaw, late of Loughborough University in the U.K., is a design concept that turns sexy cigarette packs into disgusting, fumbly, puke-brown boxes.

Henry Box Brown escaped enslavement in Richmond, Virginia by mailing himself in a box 3 feet long 2 1/2 ft. deep and 2 ft wide. shipped via Adams Express.

Henry “Box” Brown pulled off one of the great escapes from slavery when he shipped himself in a box to gain freedom.

Henry “Box” Brown’s idea to ship his way to freedom might have been the most successful disappearing act of all time. In 1849, the formerly enslaved man embarked on a 27-hour journey from a ...