Category: History

Did witchcraft play a part in the downfall of Adolf Hitler? This 1943 newspaper article tells of a death-doll trend taking place before Hitler was…

Over the span of two years, blackbirds attacked two people in Pennsylvania. One attack happened to a woman in 1908, and the second attacked happened…

Ancient Egyptians believed in numerous superstitions and beliefs about cats. Cats were considered magical creatures that provided people with innumerable benefits. Not surprisingly, the ancient…

In 1922, an 85-year-old woman was discovered in the cellar of a house. Located in a miner’s town, the cellar was dark, cold, and damp….

To introduce children, grades 5 to 6, to Classical Latin, Latin’s origins, basic pronunciations, history, and to provide exposure to Latin words and phrases. The…

The article below, originally published in 1917, quotes Nikola Tesla’s belief that electricity to the brain could cure the stupid out of the rest of…

I was going to write an article on people who fell down the stairs, but as I read the articles, I found that nearly all…

For this article, we are going begin with an execution and later end on the same topic, but with a slightly different twist. 1. Hanged…

For something a little different, I decided to visit Trove, an Australian newspaper archive created by the National Library of Australia. (https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/) So, of course,…

Hay wagons may seem like part of a quaint past time, but in reality hay wagons were dangerous. In fact, a quick search through the…