No matter how interested you are in history , you probably have still heard a lot about the Da... ...Stevenj [Wikipedia]For those of you that are into history , I’m sure you know plenty more myths about...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/02/29/five-common-misconceptions-about-the-middle-ages/Natural disasters aren’t typically a cause for celebration. But after the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, Chinese immigrants were feeling some good vibrations. Turns out, the same great quake that set fire to so much...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/02/24/the-torn-identity-how-an-earthquake-spawned-one-of-the-greatest-immigration-fraud-schemes-in-history/I don't know about you guys, but I always thought that most street name endings were pretty much assigned at random. As it turns out, there is a distinct difference between roads, avenues, boulevards, ways and streets....
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/02/21/whats-the-difference-between-a-road-a-street-and-the-rest/The following is an article from the book Uncle Jo... ..."My people need no special defense, for the past history of this country proves them to be the equal of an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/02/15/the-first-black-american-sea-captain/Bonnie & Clyde, Napoleon & Josephine and Louis XV & Madame de Pompadour...they're all great love stories -on paper at least. But when you actually learn the whole story for all of these romances, they're...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/02/14/5-great-love-stories-that-actually-kind-of-suck/When we heard of the death of Florence Green, the... ...about the old people who are our living links to history . Robert Krulwich at NPR has a list of people and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/02/09/rasputin-was-my-neighbor-and-other-true-tales-of-time-travel/Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedi... ...1865. He died the next day. Okay, what is this, a history class? Everybody knows that! But who shot Lincoln... ...little-known men who had a part in United States history . Let's look at the strange life of Boston Corbett...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/02/09/the-man-who-shot-john-wilkes-booth/Image Via allspice1 [Flickr]If you didn’t al... ...“thank you” to your mail carrier.The HistoryAmerica got its first postal service in 1692 when King Wi... ...our handwriting. Now that you know more about the history of mail delivery, don’t forget to find your...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/02/06/its-never-too-late-to-thank-your-mail-carrier/Is giving a cow whiskey the secret to ensuring it will live a long healthy life? It might sound silly, but if Bertha, the world's longest-living cow had a few shots every year before staring in the St. Patrick's Day para...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/02/03/6-animals-that-lived-unbelievably-long-lives/After all the impressive additions they’ve given this world, it’s easy to think of famous inventors as brilliant creators who can simply do no wrong. But the reality is that no one is perfect and just because someone...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/02/02/5-terrible-inventions-from-otherwise-great-inventors/
