WEIRD HISTORY
An undated photo of abolitionist and women’s rights activist Lucy Stone. Corbis—Getty Images. – During Women’s History Month the work of pioneering women’s rights activists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony will surely be debated and discussed in classrooms and newsrooms around the …
Stephan Roget – – The real Pocahontas was nothing like the Pocahontas depicted in Disney’s 1995 animated classic. There are a multitude of ways that Disney lies about, or at the very least exaggerates, the life of Pocahontas, but they’re not the only culprits …
It was a sprawling civilization. By Matt Davis – – Near modern-day St. Louis, Missouri, you can find towering mounds of earth that were once the product of a vast North American culture. Cahokia was the largest city built by this Native American …
By Kellen Perry – 1.4M views 10 items – Googling “mysterious ancient discoveries” or “unexplained ancient inventions” leads to dozens of sites listing artifacts supposedly so baffling the only possible answer could be aliens, time travel, the paranormal, the Iluminati, or aliens. Wait – did …
Her discovery of nuclear fission led the way to nuclear power—and the Cold War A version of this story originally appeared on The Conversation By Timothy J. Jorgensen, Public Health, Radiation Biology, and Cancer Epidemiology – Georgetown University – – Nuclear fission …
The same 32 symbols show up in prehistoric European cave art. By Frank Jacobs – – Many of these symbols are found in caves in Africa, Asia, Australia and America as well. At least 40,000 years old, the set of symbols may have …
A new book finds that Hitler relied on a number of drugs to rule Germany, including “crystal meth.” By Philip Perry – Hitler’s charisma, demagoguery, and ability to mobilize Germany behind him have been much written about and discussed. His failed attempt to …
Christmas has many pagan and secular traditions that early Christians incorporated into this new holiday. Mike Colagrossi – – Saturnalia (1783) by Antoine Callet, showing his interpretation of what the Saturnalia might have looked like. Christmas was heavily influenced by the Roman festival …
Michael Irving – Researchers have traced back the evolutionary history of the cocoa tree to a single domestication event 3,600 years ago (Credit: studioM/Depositphotos). It’s kind of hard to imagine life today without chocolate, and now we have a better idea of who …
Big birds hungry for human flesh have been a problem for thousands of years. By Sarah Sloat – In 2012, a video depicting a golden eagle snatching a toddler in Montreal went mega-viral. It proved to be a doctored hoax, but it was …
