What if dragons and unicorns were more than just fairy tales?
Tonight, I’m diving into ancient books, paintings, and bones still on display today, exploring what ancient writers claimed to have witnessed and how those accounts have been explained differently over time. Here’s more from Seth Holehouse on Man In America.
How did calendar systems come into being? How have they evolved over time?
Greg Reese covers the history of these time-keeping charts, beginning with the writings of Artistotle and Apollonius of Rhodes. The migrations of birds and changing weather patterns all played a part in establishing seasons and larger calendars.
We were taught to view the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II as a racist stain in the country’s history
But was there any justification to support it?
Ken LaCorte examines the issue in a new edition of Elephants In Rooms.
Is Tucker Carlson evil? Or is he just vapid and silly?
His recent discussion about World War II demonstrates one thing: He’s not the sharpest bulb on the planet. Here’s more from Triggernometry.
Dr. Alex Petkas spent years learning dead languages so he could tell you what the greatest men who ever lived were actually like.
This one goes everywhere — a library buried by Vesuvius, a coup that broke Sparta, philosophers who got way too close to power, and why Julius Caesar wept in front of a statue. There are hundreds of scrolls under that villa that no living person has read. That’s about to change. Here’s more from The Why Files.
In the 19th century, orphan trains carried thousands of unattached kids to the West.
Some were plucked out of Odd Fellows’ orphan asylums, although others came off the streets. Where did they go? What happened to them?
Greg Reese examines the mystery, as well as taking a look at some of that century’s great fires in places like Chicago and Charleston.
What were the origins of the werejaguars in Olmec society?
The the genetic causes for the deformities that were venerated in Peru are being disclosed piece by piece… and our past has never looked more intriguing. Here’s more from Dan Richards on Dedunking.
Noah’s Ark Scans founder Andrew Jones discusses potential evidence of the Biblical ship in Turkey. Researchers analyze the 538-foot Durupinar formation using radar scans and soil samples.
Jones says the site was discovered in the late 1950s but is only now receiving full attention with multiple soil scans. Much more should be known by this coming winter. Here’s more from Kaleigh McEnany on Fox News.
“Did America’s founders commit biological warfare against the Native Americans? I went looking for the truth behind the famous story and found something stranger.”
In this report, Ken LaCorte explores whether germ warfare involving smallpox was used in a deliberate fashion against native tribes in the United States.
LaCorte finds one substantiated case, involving British troops at Fort Pitt — present-day Pittsburgh. But he also uncovers a web of malarkey spread by the late Ward Churchill, a former professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Here’s more on Elephants In Rooms.
