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historical-nonfiction: A Pythagorean cup looks like a normal drinking cup, except that the bowl has a central column in it. It was supposedly invented by Pythagoras of Samos (yes, that one). It allows the user to fill the cup with wine up to a certain
historical-nonfiction: Welcome to Derinkuyu, an underground city that once housed up to 20,000 people. In the Cappadocia region, famous for its cave dwellings and underground villages, Derinkuyu stands out for sheer size and complexity. Locals began
historical-nonfiction: This man helped create analytic philosophy and was one of the 1900s’ premier logicians, and you probably don’t know who he is. Meet Bertrand Russell, a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, socialist, pacifist
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historical-nonfiction: I have heard about the Cuban Missile Crisis. It was described in history classes as “when the Cold War almost got hot.” But our curriculum never covered much more than that. This concise summary was very helpful in understanding
historical-nonfiction:Watch humans conquer the world. In the grand scheme of things, it did not take very long – just 200,000 years or so. Slow down, people.
historical-nonfiction: The High Altitude Research Project was supposed to create a massive gun capable of launching things into space. A joint venture between Canada and the US, multiple guns were built including in Vermont and Bermuda (see gallery
historical-nonfiction: gelana78: historical-nonfiction: Divided into four large sites across Senegal and Gambia, the Senegambian Stone Circles cover an area of approximately 18,500 square miles (30,000 square kilometers). Constructed somewhere betwee
historical-nonfiction: Pele is the Hawaiian goddess of fire and volcanoes. She was thought to live in the crater of the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii. She is said to have a terrible temper and will throw lava at anyone who angers her. Some people have been
historical-nonfiction: MGM studio placed their 16-year-old star Judy Garland on a diet of chicken soup, black coffee, and cigarettes to keep her small. For energy to shoot scenes, Garland was given barbituates and amphetamines. Holy crap.
historical-nonfiction: Construction workers at a railway tunnel site in the Netherlands stumbled upon a shiny object that appeared to be old. Cool, call in the archaeologists. When they arrived, the historians were amazed to find that it was an old can
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: historical-nonfiction: The turkey, the bird native in the Americas, is named after the country Turkey. That’s just in English; the story gets weirder. In Arabic, the turkey bird is called “dik rumi” or “Roman chicken.”
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. The equally
historical-nonfiction: American World War II General George Patton went to the Olympics in 1912, and placed fifth in the pentathlon!
historical-nonfiction: The principle of habeas corpus (Latin for “having the body” — ie you had to show that a murder or orther crime had been committed), is a fundamental guarantee of personal liberty that states that no-one can be imprisoned
historical-nonfiction: This is a young, hip Alex Trebek at age 23. He’s on a tv show called Music Hop in 1963 on the CBC in Canada.
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historical-nonfiction: The Duke of York, later King George VI of Great Britain, on a slide at the Wembley exhibition, 1925
historical-nonfiction: The Ford Nucleon (1958) imagined a future in which cars would run on the same concept as nuclear submarines. There would be nuclear powering stations on every corner, and a minireactor on the car.There was never a working prototype
historical-nonfiction: When Fredrick Henry Royce purchased his first two-cylinder car (a French Decauville) he was very dissatisfied with its performance. He decided to build a car of his own by “taking an existing part and making it better and eventuall
historical-nonfiction: This man is the only known American who fought for both the American army and the Soviet army during World War II. Joseph Beyrle landed as a paratrooper on D-day, but was too low and got separated from his fellows after crash landi
historical-nonfiction: Crew members of the Apollo 1 rehearsing their water landing, in 1966
historical-nonfiction: Photographer Rebecca Litchfield traveled through the former Soviet Union and took these stunning photos of abandoned buildings
historical-nonfiction: Children dancing on the streets of New York City, 1940.
historical-nonfiction: In 1988 the Soviet Union admitted that, for the previous 50 years, all of their maps had been faked. Rivers and streets were misplaced, boundaries were distorted, and sometimes things were just left off — a mountain here, a village
historical-nonfiction: The Eiffel Tower was originally supposed to be in Barcelona, Spain, but the project was rejected. Here’s some more fun facts: The height of the Eiffel Tower varies by 5.9 inches (15 cm) due to temperature changes. A woman named
historical-nonfiction: Jeffrey Hudson was born, amusingly, in the smallest county in England -Rutland County- on June 14, 1619. His parents were ordinary stock, as were all his brothers and sisters. But Jeffrey simply did not grow. At seven he stood
historical-nonfiction: the Citadel of Qaitbay is considered one of the most important defensive strongholds. It was built in 1477 CE by Sultan Al-Ashraf Sayf al-Din Qa’it Bay (hence the name). It protected Egypt well first under the Mamelukes and
historical-nonfiction: A vision of 2000, drawn by Jean-Marc Côté and other French artists to be used on cigar boxes and postcards, for the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris. It’s actually kind of sad how little of this we have. Who wouldn’t want to
historical-nonfiction: When informed of the accession of Peter III of Russia in 1762, George III said, “Well, there are now nine of us in Europe the third of our respective names”: George III, King of England Charles III, King of Spain Augustus III,
historical-nonfiction: An amazing recent fossil discovery: a whole school of fish! A single slab of limestone from the Green River Formation in North America contained 259 fish of the extinct Erismatopterus levatus species. They lived between 56 to 34
historical-nonfiction: The largest snake fossil ever found is the Titanoboa. It lived over 60 million years ago and reached over 50 feet (over 15 meters) long. It weighed more than 20 people and ate crocodiles and giant tortoises.
historical-nonfiction: Louise Brooks, silent and talking film actress, most famous for three racy films made in Europe around 1929, and whose career was unofficially blacklisted in Hollywood because of it. Louise went through a series of careers (and
historical-nonfiction: In 1927, two German gynecologists Zondek and Aschheim developed the rabbit test. They injected a woman’s urine into a female rabbit. The rabbit was then examined over the next couple days. (Read: killed and surgically examined.)
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: Eighty percent of Soviet males born in 1923 didn’t survive WWII.
historical-nonfiction: How the famous pictures were smuggled out of China: Charlie Cole was on assignment for Newsweek and was standing on the balcony of the Beijing Hotel when he started snapping Tank Man. His actions didn’t go unnoticed - the Public
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historical-nonfiction: An alternative-history map — what Africa might have looked like if it was never colonized by Europeans. Drawn with south as up, to reverse the Eurocentric bias of north-is-up maps, it was compiled using historical, linguistic,
historical-nonfiction: Eighty percent of Soviet males born in 1923 didn’t survive WWII. Historical Non-fiction: Sometimes brief. Sometimes lengthy. Always interesting.
