Overlooked History Around the Web
1871: Giant Firestorm Incinerates Wisconsin Town
Posted 2 years, 3 months ago
People Seek Shelter in the Peshtigo River (From an 1871 Harpers Weekly illustration)
On this night in 1871, long before Smokey the Bear, before the National Park Service, back before you, and only you, could prevent forest…
KEEP READING »The Great Dinosaur Stamp Controversy
Posted 2 years, 3 months ago
More than kittens, more than baseball, more, even—yes, I know—than sandwiches, there are two things that all Americans can get behind. Those two are, of coruse, (1) bitching about malicious forces ruining children’s young minds (cf. this or this), and (2) dinosaurs.
It is this crucial fact…
A Man Who Liked Invading
Posted 2 years, 4 months ago
Harald in the middle of his life, complete with awesome beard. Courtesy of (and rights to) Mitch Brewer.
Today in 1066, the Viking King Harald Hardrada launched his invasion of England with a crushing victory over the militia of…
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