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From ancient Rome to the Aztecs, funeral customs were unique, yet familiar, events that marked the passage from life to death. 1. Burial and Dirt…

Ancient Athens, a city-state of ancient Greece, may have been the birthplace of democracy, but it was a far cry different from democratic societies of…

Jesse Pomeroy was Boston’s infamous teenage fiend and murderer. His crimes, committed in the late 1800s, were so shocking that they landed the teenage boy…

Icepicks are deadly weapons and were rather popular in the early half of the 1900s. In fact, many assaults were committed by people who would…

Tar and feathering was a popular method of intimidation, torture, and vigilanteism in the early 1900s. There were numerous reports of tar and feather parties…

The disappearing coin trick has probably been around since the invention of coins. Below is a 1902 tutorial on how to perform the coin trick….

Cats, women, and the moon are symbolically linked together. In the following article, originally published in 1914, the writer connects these three magical symbols together,…

In the early 1900s, newspapers were publishing the “secret” hobo code for people to recognize and understand whenever they saw the strange “Cabalistic” drawings. Here…

The people who lived in the early 1900s loved their cats just as much as we do today. And instead of reading cat memes, they…

Men had some strange fears when it came to giving women the right to vote. Both Republican and Democratic men shook with fear at the…