Both historians and contemporaries note a couple o... ...ehind this one?”Later, in the depths of the Civil War , Lincoln's humor offended some of his advisors, b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/02/13/If-I-Couldnt-Tell-These-Stories-I-Would-Die-Lincoln-and-Laughter/<p>One of the earliest scientific fa... ...anford University researchers looked at data from Civil War soldiers and veterans and two more recent cohorts...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/01/20/Human-Body-Temperatures-Dropped-Over-The-Past-150-Years/Soon after the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Ha... ...ave to remind myself that in the time between the Civil War and World War II, Americans were still making many things by ha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/04/The-Art-of-Dignity-Making-Beauty-Amid-the-Ugliness-of-WWII-Japanese-American-Camps/The ancient city of Babylon, also called Babel, li... ...raqi forces were suffering from a long, drawn-out war with Iran, the Iraqi ruler decided to rebuild Bab... ...d; the ceilings are painted with symbols of Iraqi civilization , ranging from Babylonian lions to towers that Sad...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/12/03/Inside-the-Abandoned-Babylon-That-Saddam-Hussein-Built/Abraham Lincoln's inauguration in 1861 was not the... ...e recorded some of the most lasting images of the Civil War and he photographed Lincoln’s second inaugu... ...o;Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book of the War ,” he might not be mentioned at all.But Wood...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/11/26/The-Mystery-of-Lincolns-First-Inauguration-Photograph/Mental Floss has an article about why we eat pumpk... ...th and the South that developed leading up to the Civil War . “Thanksgiving was, above all, a New Englan...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/11/20/When-Thanksgiving-was-a-Fighting-Word/Manly men eat steak, barbecue, and bacon -just ask... ...asn't always been that way. Up until at least the Civil War , there was no notion of gender-specific foods. Fa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/10/25/How-Steak-Became-Manly-and-Salads-Became-Feminine/Machias Seal Island off the coast of Maine is the... ...by Tall Barney Beal, who lived there to avoid the Civil War draft. Tall Barney bequeathed the island to the f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/10/01/The-Man-Who-Went-to-War-With-Canada/The United States, while ostensibly welcoming immi... ...mmigrants from -of all places- Canada. During the Civil War , shipments of cotton from the South ceased and Ne... ...nd mills shut down. As business resumed after the war , nearly a million French-Canadian workers arrived...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/08/26/When-an-Influx-of-French-Canadian-Immigrants-Struck-Fear-Into-Americans/<p>“Cleanliness is next to god... ...ious terms.</p><blockquote>Before the Civil War , the authors explain, a kind of “cleanlines...
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