The Cost of Giving Birth: A Look Back at 1956 vs. Today
Imagine paying just $107.55 for a hospital birth today. Sounds impossible, right? Yet, that’s exactly what a mother in Indiana, USA, shelled out in 1956, …
Category: International
Soaring Through the Skies: A 1949 Thanksgiving Feast on a Pan Am Stratocruiser
Imagine, if you will, the crisp autumn air of 1949. Instead of the usual bustling kitchen, the scent of roasting turkey wafts through the cabin …
Undercover in a Miniskirt: The NYPD’s Bold 1969 Decoy Operation
In the gritty, neon-lit streets of 1960s New York City, where crime rates were climbing and urban unrest simmered, the NYPD rolled out an audacious …
Dig this man: Archaeologists are excavating at the Woodstock site of the legendary 1969 hippy music festival in upstate New York
Archaeologists scouring the grassy hillside famously trampled during the 1969 Woodstock music festival carefully sifted through the dirt from a time of peace, love, protest …
Flying high! Striking image of four bald eagles battling it out for a spot on a perch wins National Geographic’s Pictures of the Year contest – as stunning snaps of desert owl with severed gecko in its beak and erupting volcano also make the cut
A striking image showing two bald eagles in mid flight has won National Geographic’s 2023 Pictures of the Year contest. The image, titled ‘Dance of …
The fascinating story of Sumela Monastery
Located on the slopes of Altındere Valley in the Maçka district of Trabzon, the Sumela Monastery enchants visitors with its magnificent structure. So, what is …
America was supposed to be Art Deco.
America was supposed to be Art Deco. Here’s how an age of optimism sparked a golden age of design. And why it’s coming back… (thread) …
The US Army Needs Some Help Destroying 15,000 Battleship Shells
That’s a lot of explosives. The U.S. Army is looking for someone to deactivate 15,000 obsolete artillery shells. These shells, which were ammunition for the …
Yuri Gagarin: Commemorating the 60th anniversary of his reaching the Stars
From the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Republic of South Africa: On 12 April we celebrate a very special occasion – on that …
Shrunken heads
Until 2020, the cabinet in the Pitt Rivers Museum labelled ‘Treatment of Dead Enemies’ held tsantsa, or shrunken heads, which were displayed with many other human …