This gallery contains 2 photos.
When I was growing up, my family was deeply religious, and they had some interesting beliefs. We had a book at our house, for example, entitled “Dinosaurs and the Bible”. I was surprised recently to find this strange book is … Continue reading
This gallery contains 8 photos.
This is a GoogleMaps picture of a farm near Goldsboro in North Carolina (map). The two salami-colored ponds on either side are lagoons, but not the kind where you want to swim. They’re open basins full of feces. To get … Continue reading
This gallery contains 3 photos.
You know someone’s thinking too hard when it takes them thirty years to make up their mind. But when it takes them thirty years to make up their mind and to top it off they make a bad decision — … Continue reading
This gallery contains 4 photos.
The year 1900 marks the birth of an organization that now plays a prominent role in British politics — the UK Labor Party. Their first manifesto is a curious document. Read about a quarter way down the page and you find … Continue reading
Summer in Hong Kong is often a time of high heat and torrential rain. It was no different in 1894, when colonial doctor Alexandre Yersin first arrived; a monsoon storm greeted his ship the day it docked. For Yersin, however, … Continue reading
In October of 1924, about a fortnight before Halloween, 39-year old Lucena Samarano started coughing up blood. Her family grew worried; not only was Lucena six months pregnant, but her condition quickly deteriorated, and her sickness was not the first … Continue reading
