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Cedar is a slow growing evergreen tree that produces an aromatic wood. People have long used cedar wood as a natural way to deter moths….

Even today, so little is really known about the Etruscans and discoveries are still being made. In this newspaper article from 1915, the Etruscan language…

Art history has shown us that artists were willing to use a wide variety of strange pigments for their paints. One of those pigments came…

Desperate to believe that the spirit of her father was still with her, one woman decided to dedicate her entire home to ghosts who wished…

This newspaper article, published in 1912, covers some of the ways Halloween was celebrated in the recent past. While some of the info on the…

Left handed and left side superstitions are everywhere and are deeply imbedded in the world’s cultures. Lefties are an unusual bunch and only make up…

Leprosy is an infectious disease that has long frightened people, and for good reason. It can be transmitted from droplets from the mouth and nose…

The following dandruff cure comes from a newspaper published in 1912. I have never attempted a head massage as a way to get rid of…

I have never massaged a bruise, but apparently some people believe that it works to get rid of bruising. The article below comes from 1894….

Think you have heard it all? Guess again. According to the head doctors in the early 1900s, dodging fast moving cars could give the nerves…