History

History Charles Dickens Had His Pet Raven Grip Stuffed for His Study and Replaced It With Another Raven of the Same Name October 29, 2026

History Rats Hid People's Belongings in Williamsburg's Walls. Historians Found a Silver Dinner Fork October 28, 2026

History In 1845, John Clark Charged a Shilling to Watch a Machine Write Latin Poetry October 22, 2026

History Madison Named the Plastic Pink Flamingo Its Official Bird to Honor a Student Prank October 18, 2026

History The U.S. Navy Sank Stone-Filled Whaling Ships to Block Charleston Harbor, but New Channels Formed Around Them October 16, 2026

History Ann Moore Claimed She Had Lived Without Food for Years. Investigators Put Her Bed on a Scale October 14, 2026

History Thomas Edison Tested Job Applicants on General Knowledge. His Own Son, an MIT Student, Failed October 14, 2026

History A Railroad Staged a Fatal Train Crash in 1896. It Fired the Organizer That Evening and Rehired Him the Next Day October 13, 2026

History Henry Cogswell Gave Cities Drinking Fountains to Encourage People to Drink Water Instead of Alcohol. Some Had Statues of Him That People Tore Down October 11, 2026

History James Reavis Used Forged Spanish Records to Claim Millions of Acres. Arizona Landowners Paid Him for Their Own Property October 11, 2026

History Two Tea Ships Raced From China to London for 99 Days, Finished Minutes Apart, and Shared the First-Arrival Prize October 10, 2026

History The First British Moby-Dick Left Out Ishmael's Survival, So Reviewers Thought Its Narrator Had Drowned September 17, 2026

History High Winds Threatened to Topple a Manhattan Skyscraper, So Crews Secretly Made Emergency Repairs at Night September 13, 2026

History In 2004, a Magazine Mailed 40,000 Subscribers a Satellite Photo of Their Own House September 10, 2026

History A 96-Pound Machinist Fixed a Runaway Airship With a Pocketknife While Dangling Over Boston September 10, 2026

History A Driverless Volvo Hit a Docked Swedish Submarine in 1961 August 29, 2026

History A 1600 Year Old Mummy Had Homer's Iliad Wrapped on Its Abdomen August 24, 2026

History A Washington Post Office Once Used a Hollow Cedar Stump as Its Main Room August 22, 2026

History Singapore Made Long-Haired Men Wait Last at Government Offices August 20, 2026