WEIRD HISTORY
An 1801 poll list from Somerset County, New Jersey, held by the New Jersey State Archives in Trenton. At least 46 of the 343 voters on the list appear to be women. Michelle Gustafson for The New York Times. By Jennifer Schuessler …
By Anthony Wood – The road, part of which is seen from above in this image, may have been created as two great ancient powers prepared to square off against one another. Traci Ardren/University of Miami. – Archaeologists have used laser technology to map …
A cave in France contains man’s earliest-known structures that had to be built by Neanderthals who were believed to be incapable of such things. By Robby Berman – Image source: yannvdb/Wikimedia Commons – In a French cave deep underground, scientists have discovered what …
A few traditions in the Roman Catholic Church can be traced back to pagan cults, rites, and deities. By Molly Hanson – Photo by Josh Applegate / Unsplash – The Catholic rite of Holy Communion parallels pre-Christian Greco-Roman and Egyptian rituals that involved …
by Eric Foner – Elected 150 years ago, Hiram Revels was the first. – A few days ago, 300 people gathered in the Old State Capitol in Jackson, Miss., to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the election of Hiram Revels as the nation’s …
Discovered on the island of Lindisfarne, the artifact was likely once part of a Hnefatafl board game set. A piece of worked glass unearthed from the English island of Lindisfarne that researchers suspect may have once been a Viking game piece (Jeff Veitch). …
By Dr. Christopher Binetti – a political scientist, historian, and adjunct professor at Middlesex county College in Edison, New Jersey. – Spain is facing an existential crisis. Catalonia, one of its seventeen constituent regions, has a government supported by a small majority that …
These puzzling holes in the arid valleys of southern Perú tell us there was once a flourishing, sophisticated society here. BBC Future | By William Park – In one of the most arid regions in the world a series of carefully constructed, spiraling …
How a killer flu spread from western Kansas to the world. By Beccy Tanner, The Wichita Eagle, February 19, 2018 – Ground Zero in one of the world’s deadliest influenza pandemics started quietly, inconspicuously. It was winter, 100 years ago. And it was …
By Mike Hanlon – Coachbuilt survivors from the Art Deco era. Artcurial, Bonhams & RM-Sotheby’s. – The automotive heritage industry relocates across the Atlantic Ocean this week, as Paris prepares to become the center of the automotive world once more with the staging of …
