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Ancient Egyptians believed in numerous superstitions and beliefs about cats. Cats were considered magical creatures that provided people with innumerable benefits. Not surprisingly, the ancient…

In 1922, an 85-year-old woman was discovered in the cellar of a house. Located in a miner’s town, the cellar was dark, cold, and damp….

To introduce children, grades 5 to 6, to Classical Latin, Latin’s origins, basic pronunciations, history, and to provide exposure to Latin words and phrases. The…

An unusual burial occurred in 1897 when a Kentucky man requested that he be buried in whiskey. Here is the original article: Buried in Whiskey…

From the time I was little, I’ve heard people say that marriages lasted in the “old days.” And, “People made their marriages work.” After spending…

The article below, originally published in 1917, quotes Nikola Tesla’s belief that electricity to the brain could cure the stupid out of the rest of…

Original Barley Broth war recipe. Numerous recipes, called war recipes, were published in newspapers during World War I. The reasoning behind this was to help…

I was going to write an article on people who fell down the stairs, but as I read the articles, I found that nearly all…

It was 1903 and a woman’s body had just been found inside a sewer pipe. While we will discover who did it and why, let’s…

For this article, we are going begin with an execution and later end on the same topic, but with a slightly different twist. 1. Hanged…