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Welcome to the land of strange science, where the “modern” men of 1922 came up with ideas that would normally be reserved for science fiction…

Often mysterious figures in Medieval Japan, ninjas were the assassins and secret agents of the time. They could almost be considered the special forces of…

This hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, Mother Goose paper puzzle was originally published in the Evening Star newspaper, July 18, 1909. The…

The following article on testing diamonds was published in 1905 and discusses the methods regular people could use to try and figure out if a…

You hear very few references to the Man on the Moon these days, at least compared to when I was a kid in the 1970s….

Spiders have long been considered lucky in parts of Europe and in the United States. In Japan, the opposite is true and spiders are often…

It was WWI and everyone was doing their part to support the war. There were even recipes published, such as the boiled pork recipe, for…

In the United States, Halloween marks off the start of the holiday season as, after trick-or-treating, we slide right into Thanksgiving and then the Christmas…

Where was the origin of men? Most of us subscribe to the theory that mankind originated in Africa, possibly parts of Asia. Some people believe…

Scare tactics and end of the world predictions are nothing new to our time. In 1912, a newspaper published this story, claiming that our planet…