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Hi everyone. It’s Elizabeth, and I am taking a momentary break from our dark and depressing past. For a bit of fun, I went to…

Hammurabi was a Babylonian king who ruled from 1792 to 1750 B.C. The king put together a written set of legal code that contained 282…

Was alchemy an early form of a get rich quick scheme? With so much focus on changing base metals into gold, it certainly appears as…

Executed by guillotine on February 25, 1922, at the age of 52, Henri Landru was known as the  French Bluebeard. He was a serial killer…

It was 9 am, March 4, 1908, and the children of Lakeview School in Collinwood, Ohio were sitting in their classrooms when the fire alarm…

While the article below about the rocking stone in Truckee, California was originally published in 1895, the rocking stone is still around and can be…

While researching the Leyden jar, I found these instructions for constructing a Leyden jar out of common household materials. The instructions were originally published in…

The following 1895 article discusses the possibility that the Ark of the Covenant was actually a battery or an early form of the leyden jar….

The following article, originally published in 1921, tells how people were making wishes during that time. Beliefs About Wishes Bride’s Home Make a wish on…

Why is the number seven supposed to be lucky? How is the number connected to religions across the world? The article below, originally published in…