This year marks the 150th anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg, which took place on July 1 – 3, 1863. Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, which is one of the most famous speeches in American history, was delivered on November 18, 1863,… Read More
The mother of Abraham Lincoln died in 1818 of “milk sick,” a disease contracted from drinking the milk of cows that had grazed on white snakeroot.… Read More
Have you ever wondered why almost no one smiles in old-fashioned photographs?
In 1839, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre invented a way to create a permanent image, using a camera. The first daguerreotypes required the subject to remain still for fifteen to thirty… Read More
Ancient Mayans elongated the heads of young children of the wealthy and powerful by squeezing them between two boards and wrapping the heads tightly. Children's skulls grew to resemble the shape of an ear of corn. Later the Huns would do the same.