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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…

Published in 1962, this short list of low cost beauty tips is a glimpse into the life of a teenager during the sixties. Low Cost…

For something a little different, I decided to visit Trove, an Australian newspaper archive created by the National Library of Australia. (https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/) So, of course,…

Hay wagons may seem like part of a quaint past time, but in reality hay wagons were dangerous. In fact, a quick search through the…