AvatarMitraAvatarAvatar1 day agoThe 18th-Century Baron Who Lent His Name to Munchausen SyndromeSmithsonian Magazine - Rosemary CounterIn 1951, London physician Richard Asher wrote a journal article about “a common syndrome which most doctors have seen, but about which little has …
AvatarMitraFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo1 day agoThe True Story Of Edward John Smith, The Captain Of The Ill-Fated Titanicallthatsinteresting.com - Kaleena FragaEdward John Smith was a British sea captain and naval officer with the White Star Line before fatefully becoming the captain of the RMS Titanic in …
AvatarMitraFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo3 days agoThomas ‘Boston’ Corbett: the man who killed Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Boothhistoryextra.com - James OsborneThomas ‘Boston’ Corbett is a vital figure in the story of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the subsequent hunt for John Wilkes Booth – events …
AvatarMitraAvatarAvatar3 days agoThe Civil War raged and fortune-seekers hunted for gold. This era produced Arizona's abortion banAssociated Press - By CHRISTINE FERNANDOAs Union and Confederate armies clashed in a bloody fourth year of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln tasked one man to create the legal code for Arizona, almost 50 years before the territory became a state. New York judge William Thompson Howell wrote 500 pages that spanned provisions on …
AvatarMitraAvatarAvatar5 days agoOn This Day: White supremacists kill dozens in Colfax massacreUnited Press International - By UPI StaffApril 13 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1742, George Frideric Handel's "Messiah" made its world premiere. In 1873, a mob of former Confederate …
AvatarMitraAvatarAvatar5 days agoWhen an American president bought his mistress' silenceLe Monde in English - Arnaud LeparmentierOne hundred years ago, the Republican Party tried to use money to silence a mistress of Warren Harding, elected after the First World War. It was in …
AvatarMitraApr 11Mithridates: The Greco-Persian King Immune to Poisongreekreporter.com - Philip ChrysopoulosMithridates was an ambitious Greco-Persian king who left his mark in history as a result of his fierce war against the Romans and his immunity to …
AvatarMitraAvatarAvatarApr 11The archaic Comstock laws were named for a man who also fueled the US obsession with book banningLGBTQ Nation - Dr. Warren J. BlumenfeldAnthony Comstock destroyed 15 tons of books during his 1800s quest for a "pure" nation, which also included banning abortion medications through the …
AvatarMitraAvatarAvatarOpinion: Trump turns his trials into a soapbox. Does he know he’s channeling Hitler?verified_publisherLos Angeles Times - By Timothy W. RybackWhen Adolf Hitler was convicted of treason on April 1, 1924, for leading an armed insurrection against Germany’s democratically elected government, he discovered something remarkable: Courtrooms can make excellent soapboxes for political grandstanding. In real time, 100 years later, we’ve been …
AvatarMitraFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoThe birth of impressionismtheweek.com - The Week UKThe 15 April 1874 has a good claim to be the founding moment of modern art. A group of 31 artists, who'd often been rejected by the official Paris …
AvatarMitraFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoThe History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the Worldthecollector.com - Greg BeyerIt is hard to imagine cuisine from the Mediterranean without tomatoes, but this is exactly how it was before the Spanish conquest of the New World …
AvatarMitraFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoWelsh mythology: everything you wanted to knowhistoryextra.com - Rachel DinningWhat do white horses symbolise in Welsh mythology? What is the Mabinogion? Was King Arthur from Wales? And why do fairy folk hold a particularly …