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historical-nonfiction: Many traditions for the holidays of Christmas, Easter, and Halloween/All Saints’ Day were created between the 300s and 600s CE, as the Christian faith spread through the Roman Empire and used its newfound legitimacy to compete
historical-nonfiction: Meet Patria, Minerva, or María Teresa Mirabal – Dominican sisters who courageously opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo in the 1950s. The three sisters, along with their husbands, participated in constant underground
historical-nonfiction: Around 600 B.C.E., a Greek athlete named Protiselaus threw a discus 152 feet from a standing position, a record not exceeded for over 2,500 years, until Clarence Houser threw a discus 155 feet in 1928.
historical-nonfiction: Filled with Chinese characters and occasional annotations in Latin, this map of China shows 18 routes used for trade and travel. All of the routes point to the southern Chinese emporium of Quanzhou, a melting pot of goods
historical-nonfiction: 6,000 year old footprints baked into the volcanic mud in a quiet corner of Managua, the capital of Nicaragua. They are known as “huellas de acahualinca.” And they hold the title of oldest human footprints in the Americas.
historical-nonfiction: The first confirmed depiction of the Trojan Horse. It is the Mykonos Vase, which dates to 670 BCE. The vase was found on the island of the same name off the coast of Greece.
historical-nonfiction: This brooch, from Asia Minor, is minorly (in)famous. Its story spans three continents, two museums, and one long legal fight
historical-nonfiction: The Steppe Geoglyphs of Kazakhstan were accidentally discovered by Dmitriy Dey, an archaeology enthusiast, while he was using Google Earth to look for pyramids. The Steppe Geoglyphs consist of more than 200 rings, squares, and
historical-nonfiction: President James Buchanan (1791-1868) quietly but consistently bought slaves in Washington, D.C., and then set them free in Pennsylvania.
historical-nonfiction: The surprising history behind 9 extremely common foods.
historical-nonfiction: In 1795, the French military under Napoleon offered a prize of 12,000 francs to the person who could develop a better way of preserving food. Fifteen years later, French confectioner Nicolas Appert claimed that prize by agreeing
historical-nonfiction: Fashionable bathing outfits for ladies, from the 1920s.
historical-nonfiction: Su Xiaoxiao (482 - 501 CE) was a Chinese courtesan and poet who lived during the Southern Qi Dynasty and was well-regarded for both her beauty and intellect. She was best known for her poetry, not her profession. Su died at the
historical-nonfiction: Cracking the Coldest Case: How Lucy (Might Have) Died
historical-nonfiction: Eva Ekeblad was a Swedish noble and scientist in the 1700s. She discovered how to make flour, booze, and face powder out of potatoes! She saved scarce grain for food and helped her countrymen avoid starvation.
historical-nonfiction: Have you heard about the Wright brothers’ sister? You should have – among other things, she is one of a small number of American women to have been award the French Legion D’Honneur. Read more about this forgotten sister
historical-nonfiction: Roman Emperor Hadrian was the first emperor to wear a full beard. He based his look on the ancient Greeks, and later emperors – and European monarchs – based their looks on Hadrian.
historical-nonfiction:A policeman stops traffic to let a mother cat carry her kitten across the road. Circa 1925.
historical-nonfiction: Alfred Stieglitz’s The Glow of Night - New York, 1897. Electric lights were still a new phenomenon: a test of 23 electric arc lamps first lit up a stretch of Broadway in Manhattan in 1880. Lamps to light streets and bridges
historical-nonfiction: Interesting hairstyles! December 1968
historical-nonfiction: While it is commonly thought that the ancient Egyptians were the first to domesticate cats, the oldest known pet cat was recently found in a 9,500-year-old grave on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. This grave predates early
historical-nonfiction: Historians have just discovered the oldest reference to the mathematical concept of “zero” in India. The concept of zero as a number was revolutionary in mathematics. In Eurasia, the idea came from India (and the Mayans separately
historical-nonfiction: Born in Texas in 1892, to parents of African-American and Native American descent, Bessie Coleman moved to Chicago at twenty-three and worked as a manicurist. Somehow, Coleman began listening to and reading stories about World
historical-nonfiction: Hewlett-Packard made the first scientific pocket calculator in 1972. Introducing…the HP-35! The calculator used three AA batteries, was over five inches long, and cost 踫. That’s equivalent to Ū,262 in 2016.
historical-nonfiction: In 1898. Samuel Clemens signed a hotel register “S.L. Clemens. Profession: Mark Twain.”
historical-nonfiction: A new rock-cut chamber tomb has been found in central Greece, near the city of Orchomenos, which was the most important center in the region during the Mycenaean period. Uncovered in a cemetery filled with similar tombs, the new
historical-nonfiction: About 1,500 years ago, a man in his late forties lost his arm. It was often a death sentence at the time. People died from amputations quickly, from bloodloss, or slowly, from infection. We do not know how or why, but this lucky
historical-nonfiction: “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion
historical-nonfiction: Ritual axe decorated with skulls and crown motifs. The handle and axehead are glass, and the rest is gilded bronze. The axe was likely to cut through delusions or sever psychological attachments to the worldly life, allowing one
historical-nonfiction: See the date – this newspaper piece was published in 1912.
historical-nonfiction: This is the kujang, a sickle-shaped dagger believed to uphold the balance of the world. Once popular with Javanese kings, the kujang’s distinctly shaped blade was believed to have been inspired by a divine message proclaiming
historical-nonfiction: In 1987 boy named Diamond made a call to the Minneapolis police saying that his father was physically attacking his mother. This photograph, of one boy’s bravery, was hailed as one of the most influential photographs in the world
historical-nonfiction: Limestone hedgehog on its own wheeled vehicle. Found near the temple of Inshushinak cache in Susa, Iran, it dates to the Middle Elamite period, circa 1500-1200 BCE.
historical-nonfiction: People enjoying a picnic in the middle of a highway during the 1973 oil crisis.
historical-nonfiction:Girls racing sheep in Aberystwyth, Wales. 1965.
historical-nonfiction:Street vendor sells mummies in Egypt. 1865.
historical-nonfiction: A queen’s pet gazelle, mummified and buried with its owner. 945 BCE, Twenty-First Dynasty, Egypt
historical-nonfiction: The Great Pyramids of Giza, as you’ve never seen them before — at the edge of a sprawling metropolis and the vast desert.
historical-nonfiction: Two border patrol officers attempt to keep an American fugitive in America, while Mexican police try to keep him in Mexico.
historical-nonfiction: Haunting Photos of the Abandoned 1984 Winter Olympics Facilities (Sarajevo)
historical-nonfiction: Welsh woman helping her husband wash after his shift at a coal mine.
historical-nonfiction:Terracotta Warriors fresh from the earth, before their colors deteriorate from the exposure. Photograph from a 1974 excavation
historical-nonfiction: The first machine-made chocolate was produced in Barcelona, Spain, in 1780.
historical-nonfiction: In 1987 boy named Diamond made a call to the Minneapolis saying that his father was physically attacking his mother. This photograph, of one boy’s bravery, was hailed as one of the most influential photographs in the world by
historical-nonfiction: Early human migration patterns, based on genetic evidence from male y chromosomes and female mitochondrial DNA.
historical-nonfiction: There are only three original citrus fruits: the citron, the pummelo and the mandarin. All others are hybrids of these three.
historical-nonfiction: When James Harrison had chest surgery at age 13, he resolved to begin donating blood to help others in need. When he did so, doctors realized that he carries a rare immune globulin that can prevent unborn babies from suffering
historical-nonfiction: Concord’s Colonial Inn has one of the longest and most varieded histories of any hotel in America. The house was built in 1716 (though it wasn’t used as an inn until 1889). In 1775, of its original buildings was used to store
historical-nonfiction: The Old Calton Burial Ground, in Edinburgh, Scotland, houses a memorial to Scottish-American soldiers who died in the American Civil War. The memorial is also first statue of Abraham Lincoln erected outside of the United States.
historical-nonfiction: Bugs Bunny accidentally transformed the word nimrod into a synonym for idiot because nobody got a joke where he sarcastically compared Elmer Fudd to the Biblical figure Nimrod, a mighty hunter.
historical-nonfiction: This is a holloway, a sunken lane formed by traffic or erosion. Some in Europe date to the Iron Age!
historical-nonfiction: A policeman stops traffic to let a mother cat carry her kitten across the road. Circa 1925.
historical-nonfiction: In 1860′s San Francisco, two stray dogs who were best friends became local celebrities. Their exploits were cataloged in local papers, they were granted immunity from the city’s dog catchers, and when they died a plaque was
historical-nonfiction: The iconic Golden Gate Bridge, under construction in 1937.
historical-nonfiction: The Bang Pa-In Palace, in Thailand. Summer residence of the monarch and their family, it is an interesting mix of styles. The royal palace is Chinese; see the throne room above, with the distinctive red and gold decor. Smaller
historical-nonfiction: Horseshoe crabs are not crabs at all. They are not even crustaceans. Instead, they have their own separate class named Merostomata. They have hardly evolved since the age of the dinosaurs, and their closest living relatives are,
