WEIRD HISTORY
Policemen keep a mob back as James Meredith, a Black student trying to enroll at the University of Mississippi, is driven away after being refused admittance to the all-White university in Oxford on 1962 Sep 25. AP Photo – By Joseph Daniel Ura, …
Tree rings can preserve a record of astrophysical events like solar flares. University of Queensland – By Michael Irving 2022 Oct 27 – Tree rings are not just a great record of a tree’s life, but they can preserve a snapshot of the Earth …
Sacheen Littlefeather speaks at the 45th Academy Awards. Bettmann/Getty Images – By Dina Gilio Whitaker, Lecturer on American Indian Studies, California State University San Marcos Published: 2022 Oct 28 – When Sacheen Littlefeather died on 2022 Oct 02, obituaries reflecting on the actress …
A pit bull is not an official breed – it’s an umbrella term for a type of dog. Barbara Rich via Getty Images – By Colin Dayan, Professor of English, Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities, and Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University …
Samples of the ancient bones from which the oldest human genomes in Britain were taken. University College London – By Michael Irving 2022 Oct 24 – Scientists have sequenced the genomes of two ancient skeletons, and found they constitute the oldest human DNA in …
How did Halloween get associated with the spooky? SolStock/Collection E+ via Getty Images – By Tok Thompson, Professor of Anthropology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Published: 2022 Oct 24 – As Halloween approaches, people get ready to celebrate the spooky, …
Halloween parade in New York. AP Photo/Andres Kudacki – By Regina Hansen, Senior Lecturer, Rhetoric, Boston University Published: 2017 Oct 25 – Over the past few decades, Halloween celebrations have gained in popularity, not only with children and families, but with all those …
In Westeros, Rhaenyra finds herself in a power struggle akin to that of the real-life Empress Matilda, who lived from 1102 to 1167. HBO – By David Routt, Adjunct Professor of History, University of Richmond Published: 2022 Oct 19 – In three decades …
Many elevators do not have a floor numbered 13 because of common superstitions about the number. Luís Álvarez/DigitalVision via Getty Images – By Barry Markovsky, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of South Carolina Published: 2022 Oct 21 – Would you think it …
Critics blame poor management of cemeteries in Italian city as collapse at Poggioreale cemetery exposes at least a dozen coffins. The city council ordered the Poggioreale Monumental Cemetery to be closed as a precaution on Tuesday, as coffins dangled precariously over the void. …
