WEIRD HISTORY
Historian Camilla Townsend separates fact from fiction, as a new documentary premieres about the American Indian princess. Pocahontas wasn’t even a teenager when John Smith claims she saved him from execution. Whether the story happened the way Smith tells it—or even at all—is …
“I knew they’d get one of us, I thought it would be me.” Robert F. Kennedy Wikimedia/Public Domain – IrishCentral Staff @IrishCentral 2018 Nov 20 – Robert F. Kennedy had his own suspicions regarding the assassination of his brother, President John F Kennedy, …
Nazca Lines: Archaeologists discover 2,000-year-old cat figure in Perú. Credit: Jhony Islas/AP – Written by Oscar Holland, CNN Published 2020 Oct 19 – A huge feline figure carved into an arid hillside over 2,000 years ago has been discovered in southern Perú, according …
The East India House, 1928. From ‘A History of Lloyd’s,’ by Charles Wright and C. Ernest Fayle. Macmillan and Company Limited, London, 1928. Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images – By Nicole Kay Peterson, Assistant Professor, Iowa State University 2020 Oct 15 – …
Father of robotics? Al Jazari was an Arab Muslim scholar, inventor, and mechanical engineer during the Islamic Golden Age (Middle Ages) – Iowa State University University Library 2007 Oct 10 News Newsletter – Do you know who is considered to be the “father …
The Indus Valley Civilization flourished alongside Mesopotamia and Egypt, but the early society remains shrouded in mystery. Mohenjo Daro, or “Mound of the Dead” is an ancient Indus Valley Civilization city that was abandoned in the 19th century BCE as the Indus Valley …
The National Archives has scanned more than 300 agreements between the United States and Indigenous tribes. Ratified Indian Treaty 37: Eel River, Wyandot, Piankashaw, Kaskaskia, and Kickapoo—Vincennes, Indiana Territory, August 7, 1803 (Courtesy of the National Archives) – By Nora McGreevy SmithsonianMag.Com 2020 …
Prehistoric tracks detail a moment when mammoths, sloths and humans crossed paths. The footprints found at White Sands National Park are more than 10,000 years old. (Courtesy of the National Park Service) – By Livia Gershon SmithsonianMag.Com 2020 Oct 14 – A small …
The King’s Grave in Sweden ( CC by SA 3.0 ) – By Caleb Strom – In 1748, two farmers stumbled upon an ancient stone tomb near the village of Kivik in southern Sweden while digging in a quarry. The tomb, now known …
The Ilopango mega-eruption in 431 AD must have looked like this but no one understood just how much this single event effected the global climate, especially in the Southern Hemisphere. Source: Catmando / Adobe Stock – By Ashley Cowie 2020 Oct 01 …
