Category: Culture

Phonographs are taking over the planet and one day records will be sent out weekly to everyone who owns a player. While certainly dated (1920),…

Newspapers from the late 1800s and early 1900s have numerous accounts of indigenous people from all over the world. This particular article covers the domestic…

Gypsies who work? Can we get any more insulting? The Romani were a subject of fascination in the early 20th century. There were numerous article…

If you think that people pamper their dogs now, you haven’t heard about the custom made shoes for dogs back in 1912. In a time…

Pirating has been a fascination with many of us since childhood, but little is said of the buccaneers. This short little article published in 1912…

What do you plan on doing Halloween night? Why not try out one of these old charms and divinations? Personally, I like the dry bread…

People once believed that cats could tell the future on Halloween night. What is your cat trying to tell you? Watch and find out!

The berserkers were fierce Viking warriors who dressed in either bear or wolf skins to strike fear in their enemies. It was not just their…

Called Tommyknockers in the U.S., the German miners claimed that gnomes infested metal mines and could cause all sorts of trouble and even death. The…

Rain making used to be a fairly profitable industry back in the day. Men and a few women would claim that they could make the…