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There were plenty of strange lights and objects seen in the sky in the early 1900s. Sometimes they were left a mystery, but other times…

A Greek shower vase? Given how intelligent and innovative the ancient Greeks were, it is little wonder that they created a shower vase. The article…

Propaganda and fake news stories played a huge part of the Great War and the German people were often stuck at the sharp end of…

You might not think much of the lowly wooden toothpick, but over a hundred years ago, the toothpick was a hotly debated topic in newspapers…

The Morris roller boat, pictured below, is a tube-like boat invented in 1902. It was hoped that the shape of the boat would make it…

The origin of Valentine’s Days comes to us from the ancient Roman festival, Lupercalia. The article below was originally published in 1911 and tells us…

Getting fatally stabbed by a pitchfork does not only happen in B-rated horror movies. In fact, pitchfork deaths were once fairly common throughout Europe, and…

In the old days, they wore stockings instead of socks, but the superstitions remained the same. Socks, like all articles of clothing, had their own…

The early 1900s saw a lot of experimentation with coffins, including glass coffins that were vacuum sealed. The following article was published in 1909 and…

The following article and image is about a suit for the victims of a shipwreck. The way it was designed not only made people look…