11 Jul 10
Some time around 1000BC the teenage girls of Greece lost all self-control. Mothers and fathers could not control their daughters actions; they were being driven by the pulsating rhythm of the music that came from the lyre of the greatest cultural phenomenon to ever affect music. The baby-faced, twenty-year-old heart-throb named Apollo was a hip-shaking musical prodigy like no one had ever seen before. Civilization would not meet such a influential musician again until the ancient version of Ray Charles, Homer, would lay down some tracks of his own around 850BC.
The game typically involves young males forcefully punching or tapping one another in the groin area in hopes of causing severe pain. After in-depth review our crack team of researchers here at The History Bluff has concluded that it was Englishman T.E. Lawrence, known as Lawrence of Arabia, who is responsible for bringing this game to where it is today.
On May 27, 1851 President Millard Fillmore made the boldest move of his auspicious presidency after coming into the office as a result of President Zachary Taylor's untimely death.
A team of archaeologists from The History Bluff recently unearthed what appears to be a dog training manual once printed around 1612 - one year after the first official print of the King James Version of the Bible. The manual shows how little dog training has changed along over the years.
One would think that maternity leave is a fairly new concept brought about by the liberated woman of the 20th century. A quick study shows that maternity leave was extremely common even in colonial America. In fact, records show that some maternity absences in the colonies and among pioneering women stretched on for close to a year.
Recent documents have been found in a Tombstone, AZ courtroom that give us a look at interviews performed soon after the Gunfight at the OK Corral that involved the legendary Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. The interviews were performed by local reporters and legal staffers with the friends, family, and neighbors of the shooting victims.
Nurse Edith McCrary had a disturbing effect among the wounded soldiers she cared for during the First World War.
One of our lead archivists had the nerve to question the origin of 4-H youth organization. Moments before he was almost handed the pink slip, he discovered a chilling connection between 4-H and the Hitler Youth.
Fig roll pastries have been with us for many years, going all the way back to the ancient Egyptians. Advances in baking allowed the fig roll pastry to have a longer shelf life and become popular in the Mediterranean region. Much can be said of the early sailors and traders who assisted in the popularity that the fig newton now enjoys, but we owe a debt of gratitude to a 16th century Jewish fig farmer named Moshe Nuhtan.
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