We had a story about military doctor James Bar... ...queraded as a male Confederate soldier during the Civil War : Link | More info in Wikipedia.
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/24/the-cuban-woman-soldier-of-the-us-civil-war/Avid I Met a Possum readers (Hi mom and Jennifer!)... ...ts doors in 1874, many of its first patients were Civil War veterans suffering from post traumatic stress dis... ...aret Schilling disappeared from one of the active wards . They found her body more than a month later in t... ...body more than a month l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/22/five-hospitals-you-dont-want-to-check-into/The following is reprinted from Bathroom Rea... ...at a public auction. Surely not, you cry! Not in civilized old England. Thomas Hardy must have made it all u... ...risingly, this bargain sparked a frenzied bidding war among the locality's lonely farmers, and Mary eve... ...to celebrate the successful transa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/19/the-golden-age-of-wife-selling-better-than-a-divorce/Thousands of Robert Capa's negatives, taken during... ...Robert Capa's negatives, taken during the Spanish Civil War and thought to be lost forever, have been found -... ...s that Robert Capa, one of the pioneers of modern war photography, took during the Spanish Civil War be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/27/capas-negatives-found/The history of computing spans thousands of years... ...ool. The 20,000-year-old bone revealed that early civilization had mastered arithmetic series and even the conce... ...be and Colossus: Cracking Nazi Codes During World War IIDuring World War II, Nazi Germany used an ele...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/25/the-wonderful-world-of-early-computing/"You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/12/quote-will-rogers-on-the-advancement-of-civilization/In 1942, Gardner Dane wrote an article about how t... ...1975. Gardner predicted that a devastating World War III would force people to move underground in ord... ...erground in order to survive.Though obviously the war didn't happen, some of Gardner's predictions came... ...has more: http://www.paleofuture.c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/10/1945-article-about-the-then-future-1975-will-war-drive-civilization-underground/Every year, the Edge Foundation, an organization f... .... I decided that no online community could remain civil after it grew too large, and gave up on that aspe... ...t the importance of the atom bomb in ending World War IIWhen facts change your mind, that's not always... ...ar bombings of Hiroshima and Nag...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/06/edge-foundation-what-have-you-changed-your-mind-about-and-why/After 35 years and $500 billion, according to Ben... ...wrong? Here's an article on how America lost the war on drugs:But after Escobar was killed in 1993 - a... ...would work and what wouldn't. The tragedy of the War on Drugs is that this knowledge hasn't been heede... ...s are responsible. In the course of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/05/how-america-lost-the-war-on-drugs/After he retired, Bob Brewer embarked on an advent... ...lden Circle of the late 1800s to finance a second Civil War .Everyone thought Bob was bonkers ... until he fou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/12/man-found-some-of-the-confederate-gold/
