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What We Loved This Week, Dec. 11 – 17

"Hysterical" women of the 1870s, humanity's weirdest collections, Kenya's wildlife, light festivals around the world, history's most extravagant funerals.

By All That's Interesting Dec 16, 2016

What We Loved This Week, Dec. 11 – 17

"Hysterical" women of the 1870s, humanity's weirdest collections, Kenya's wildlife, light festivals around the world, history's most extravagant funerals.

By All That's Interesting December 16, 2016
Look Clean But
Look Clean But

31 Inappropriate And Outdated Government Posters Warning People About STDs

During World War I, STDs put 18,000 servicemen in the hospital every single day. Indeed, as lonely servicemen sent overseas often filled their spare time with female companionship, the likes of syphilis and gonorrhea ran wild thanks to poor sexual hygiene and almost no sexual education. In the years that...

By All That's Interesting Dec 13, 2016

31 Inappropriate And Outdated Government Posters Warning People About STDs

During World War I, STDs put 18,000 servicemen in the hospital every single day. Indeed, as lonely servicemen sent overseas often filled their spare time with female companionship, the likes of syphilis and gonorrhea ran wild thanks to poor sexual hygiene and almost no sexual education. In the years that...

By All That's Interesting December 13, 2016
Mummy Child
Mummy Child

Unearthed Mummy Child Upends Scientists’ Beliefs About Smallpox

Smallpox has had a devastating history, from ancient Egypt to its worldwide eradication about 35 years ago, but a mummified child recently found in a Lithuanian crypt is rewriting the virus’ storied past. Teeming with the remains of the virus, the mummified child had been between the ages of two...

By All That's Interesting Dec 13, 2016
Science News

Unearthed Mummy Child Upends Scientists’ Beliefs About Smallpox

Smallpox has had a devastating history, from ancient Egypt to its worldwide eradication about 35 years ago, but a mummified child recently found in a Lithuanian crypt is rewriting the virus’ storied past. Teeming with the remains of the virus, the mummified child had been between the ages of two...

By All That's Interesting December 13, 2016
Nazi Eugenics
Nazi Eugenics

How American Eugenics Programs Inspired The Nazis

"There is today one state in which at least weak beginnings toward a better conception are noticeable. Of course, it is not our model German Republic, but the American Union." – Adolf Hitler

By Richard Stockton Dec 13, 2016

How American Eugenics Programs Inspired The Nazis

"There is today one state in which at least weak beginnings toward a better conception are noticeable. Of course, it is not our model German Republic, but the American Union." – Adolf Hitler

By Richard Stockton December 13, 2016
San Francisco 1968 Choke
San Francisco 1968 Choke

Explosive Riots That Changed The Course Of American History

“The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win, and their participants know it,” said Martin Luther King Jr. in an address to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) just weeks before his death on April 4, 1968. “Hence riots are not revolutionary but reactionary because they...

By John Kuroski Dec 12, 2016

Explosive Riots That Changed The Course Of American History

“The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win, and their participants know it,” said Martin Luther King Jr. in an address to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) just weeks before his death on April 4, 1968. “Hence riots are not revolutionary but reactionary because they...

By John Kuroski December 12, 2016
Phantom
Phantom

The Scary Truth Behind The Phantom Social Worker Legend

In the 1990s, hundreds of families in rural England reported that "phantom" social workers had abducted their children. As it turns out, the truth is worse than the urban legend.

By Abby Norman Dec 11, 2016

The Scary Truth Behind The Phantom Social Worker Legend

In the 1990s, hundreds of families in rural England reported that "phantom" social workers had abducted their children. As it turns out, the truth is worse than the urban legend.

By Abby Norman December 11, 2016
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