WEIRD HISTORY
While on a routine patrol, Greg Francek came across bone fragments from prehistoric animals that existed millions of years before humans. Ranger Greg Francek uncovers a gomphothere fossil. Photograph: East Bay Municipal Utility District – By Erin McCormick 2021 May 26 – Imagine …
The author, known as the “Lord of Misrule,” had the audacity to erect a maypole in Massachusetts. Circa 1620, American colonist and leader of the Plymouth Colony Myles Standish (1584 – 1656) and a colony of English settlers follow a Native American scout. …
Confederate currency had images of enslaved people, historical figures and mythical deities. elycefeliz/Flickr, CC BY-ND – By Robert Gudmestad, Professor and Chair of History Department, Colorado State University 2021 May 03 – Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If …
Against all odds, 28 percent of Scottish people still use it. How the English Failed to Stamp Out the Scots Language – by Dan Nosowitz 2018 Sep 28 – Over the past few decades, as efforts to save endangered languages have become governmental …
An illustration from the November 20, 1880, issue of Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper depicts an anti-Chinese riot in Denver, Colorado. Violence against Chinese immigrants was widespread in the American West. Courtesy of the Chinese American Museum/Dylan and Phoenix Wong – SOURCE: National Geographic …
The billion-year-old multicellular microfossil was found at Loch Torridon in the Scottish Highlands. grafxart/Depositphotos – By Michael Irving 2021 May 02 – Scientists have discovered the fossil of what may be the earliest multicellular animal ever found. Dating back a billion years, the microscopic …
The Puritans saw May Day celebrations as a test from God. Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images – By Peter C. Mancall, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences 2021 Apr 29 – …
Financial bubbles are frequently depicted as manias. Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images – By Gayle Rogers, Professor and chair of English, University of Pittsburgh 2021 Apr 30 – In the late 1990s, America experienced a dot-com mania. In the 2000s, the housing …
The newly rehabilitated Kozlowski’s Trading Post at Pecos NHP. Photo is NPS IMG_2930.JPG – Pecos, NM: Pecos National Historical Park recently completed rehabilitation of the historic Kozlowski’s Trading Post along Highway 63 in Pecos, NM. The $4 million dollar project, which began in …
Archeologists excavate Bacho Kiro Cave in Bulgaria, where three modern human specimens were found to have recent Neanderthal DNA. MPI-EVA/ Nikolay Zaheriev – By Michael Irving 2021 Apr 11 – Two new genetic studies have shed light on just how often our ancestors got …
