WEIRD HISTORY
KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images – By Elizabeth Yuko 2021 Aug 22 – Felines served a useful purpose in ancient Egyptian households and were eventually associated with deities. Along with hieroglyphics, obelisks and geometric patterns, cats feature prominently in ancient Egyptian art, reflecting …
There was a top secret plan during World War II to seal a group of soldiers inside the rock. – Inside a gallery on the Rock of Gibraltar, engraved by Joseph Constantine Stadler by Rev. Cooper Willyams – Entrance to the Prince’s …
Ashura in Syria. Tasnim News Agency, CC BY-SA – By Noorzehra Zaidi, Assistant Professor of HIstory, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Originally posted 2019 Sep 06 – Thousands of Shiite Muslims from around the world will visit Iraq this month to see the …
On the 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest, people from Mexico’s smallest state Tlaxcala say their ancestors were liberators – Dancers celebrate the anniversary of the founding of Tenochtitlán, the Mexica capital, on 26 July. Photograph: Luis Barron/Eyepix Group/Pacific Press/REX/Shutterstock – David Agren …
Archaeologist and paleoenvironmental researcher Isaac Hart of the University of Utah surveys a melting ice patch in western Mongolia. Peter Bittner, CC BY-ND – William Taylor, Assistant Professor and Curator of Archaeology, University of Colorado Boulder 2021 Aug 11 – In the world’s …
– By Kenneth Loiselle Originally published in the May/June issue of California Freemason. Read the digital magazine here! It takes a strong institution to abide for more than 300 years. But it takes a remarkable one to endure through 300 years of social …
The modern Olympics share many things with the ancient games. Odd Andersen/AFP via Getty Images – By Joel Christensen, Professor of Classical Studies, Brandeis University 2021 Jul 28 – The 2020 Tokyo Olympics started on July 23, 2021, amid a few different controversies. …
The Little Ice Age brought some bitter extremes. Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565 – By Dagomar Degroot, Associate Professor of Environmental History, Georgetown University 2021 Jul 27 – In recent weeks, catastrophic floods overwhelmed towns in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, inundated subway …
Eddie Braun launches toward immortality in his 10,000 horsepower steam rocket, the Evel Spirit. Loz Blain/New Atlas View 29 Images – By Loz Blain 2021 Jul 25 – Nearly five years ago, in a vastly different world, Eddie Braun completed the stunt that famously …
Emmy Noether made significant contributions to theoretical mathematics. Konrad Jacobs, Erlangen/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA – By Tamar Lichter Blanks, PhD Candidate in Mathematics, Rutgers University 2021 Jul 15 – When Albert Einstein wrote an obituary for Emmy Noether in 1935, he described her …
