(I Will Become the Pirate King t-shirt on sale at...  ...arian, it has been 30 years since the collapse of civilization in some mysterious apocalyptic event. Kuzuya, a s...  ...e empire on their way to take the officers' exam. War is coming and they're prepared to fight. But none...  ...o go there.The Lost Villa...

The following article is from the book Uncle John&...  ...For more than a century, Australians have been at war against what they call the “mouse plague.&r...  ...ly 10,000 years ago. And as human agriculture and civilization spread across the globe, the house mice spread to...  ...t true.(Image credit: Iw...

Over the years we’ve relied on talking sheep...  ...oversial. Some considered it akin to voodoo. But Americans had no such qualms: By 1860, 500 weather stations...  ...Washington.When that network crumbled during the Civil War , a frustrated astronomer named Cleveland Ab...

Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedi...  ...”Flowers were placed on the graves of Greek warriors . It was believed that if the flowers took root an...  ...oot and blossomed on the graves, the souls of the warriors were sending a message that they had found happin...  ...the tradition began in...

AMERICAN LAGER by Fernando SalaDo you enjoy the taste of f...  ...your life? Then you need to grab a case of Cap's American Lager, with the star spangled smoothness and gold...  ...good ol' U.S. of A. When you sip on the Captain's American Lager you're sipping on history, and p...

The following article is from Uncle John’s F...  ...rsquo;s Factastic Bathroom Reader.During the U.S. Civil War , New York printer $am Upham crippled the Confeder...  ...o;s economy and hindered its ability to fight the war . Yet he was never officially honored, and is al...

The following article is from Uncle John’s F...  ...ader.Historians often disagree on whether certain wars should be considered one continuing conflict or a...  ...d one continuing conflict or a series of separate wars . But that doesn’t stop them from compiling...  ...o;t stop them from compiling li...

(Photo via Jenny Pancakes)Robert E. Lee Elementary School in Austin, Texas is named after the famous Confederate general with that name. As the Confederate States of America was founded for the explicit purpose of preser...

This increasingly famous portrait from the US Civil War is of two men. On the left is Andrew Chandler, Co...  ...lave, Silas Chandler, who accompanied Andrew into war . Was Silas a Confederate soldier? The question ha...  ...for a hundred years, and more recently, groups of...

What would you think if you heard that three busin...  ...e? Barnum’s first museum was Barnum’s American Museum in Manhattan, which opened in 1842. But th...  ...emise of his first museum. “Right after the Civil War , the American...