Historical Blog

12/26/2025

Did you know that thousands of years ago, a secular empire began building gardens that were an uncanny reflection of the Garden of Eden? The Persian 'paradise gardens' featured four rivers flowing from a central source, mirroring the description in the book of Genesis.

12/25/2025

In the world of over 40,000 spider species, almost all are carnivores. But one, Bagheera kiplingi, breaks the mold. This tiny jumping spider from Central America is almost entirely vegetarian, surviving on a diet of special leaf-tips from acacia trees.

12/25/2025

A global ice cream empire started with just a $5 mail-in course. In 1977, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield learned the basics of ice cream making from a Penn State correspondence class. The very next year, they opened their first scoop shop in a converted gas station, changing the dessert world forever.

12/25/2025

Farmers digging a well unearthed an eternal army that had waited 2,000 years to be found.

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12/25/2025

12/25/2025

For over a century, the bust of Nefertiti has been a symbol of beauty, but its past is filled with debate. Discovered in 1912, questions linger about whether it was a finished masterpiece or a sculptor's private model, and its removal from Egypt has sparked a repatriation controversy that continues to this day.

12/25/2025

The all-American apple pie isn't American at all, and originally, it wasn't even about the apples. A 642-year-old English recipe shows the first version was a luxury item filled with pears and figs, spiced with saffron, and baked in a bizarre, inedible crust called a 'coffyn'.

12/25/2025

12/24/2025

In California's White Mountains, a tree named Methuselah has been alive for over 4,800 years, making it an eyewitness to nearly all of recorded human history. To protect it from harm, its precise location is a closely guarded secret.

12/24/2025

Hummingbirds are the only birds on Earth capable of true backward flight. This isn't just a simple flutter; it's a precisely controlled maneuver made possible by powerful flight muscles and wings that can rotate nearly 180 degrees at the shoulder.

12/24/2025

A shepherd's fading memory of a colorful cave he saw as a boy was all it took. In 2007, that memory led a team of experts to one of the most significant art discoveries in Nepal's history, solving a centuries-old mystery.

12/24/2025

Known as the 'Witch of Wall Street,' Hetty Green was the richest woman in America during the Gilded Age, yet she was breathtakingly frugal. She would conduct business on the floor of her bank to avoid office rent and reportedly spent hours searching for a lost 2-cent stamp.