History

In North America, we get stuck thinking that there are only about a dozen “normal” fruits because those are what are accessible to us. We grab bananas, apples, oranges, grapes, berries, melon – maybe a pineapple or a mango once in a while, or a kiwi, but that’s about as wild as we get. There...

Rules are funny things, I think. Some people relish playing by them, others love to flaunt them at every opportunity, and others kind of walk the line, picking and choosing which apply to them based on the moment. As long as you’re not the first person, you’re open to exploring loopholes in society where you...

A lot of men and women from the past have had their names dragged through the mud after they’ve passed on. Some obviously deserve every bad word that was ever printed about them, but some people have been unfairly judged by history…until today. Because these folks are gonna set the record straight! AskReddit users talked...

They say that history is written by the victors and boy, ain’t that the truth? And yes, a lot of history’s “bad guys” have that reputation because they were terrible people, but there are some men and women from the past who have gotten a raw deal in the history books. What “bad guys” from...

Any fan of Outlander can tell you the value of a good stone circle or megalith. They are an incredible feat of engineering that evokes imagery of giants and druids and ancient gods and ancient humans overcoming extraordinary limitations (and doing math!) in the service of those gods. There is something magical about such places,...

If you’re a person of a certain age – a person who was using Microsoft Office’s suite of products back in the aught’s, for example – you might remember the little paper clip that would pop up offering to give you tips or answer any “help” type questions you might have. You could hide him,...

Who doesn’t love the idea of going about our business on any given day and stumbling across something super cool, a little slice of life that makes us feel connected to the people around us – or those who came before us? I know I do, and I’m always on the lookout for stuff like...

If you’re a history nerd like me, you probably dream about stumbling upon something totally cool, some artifact of life gone by, in an attic or a basement or in one of those thrift shops no one understands why you just have to check out. You get it, right? If you know, you know –...