50 Fascinating History Stories Shared Online That Might Surprise You

It was called the Cihuatlampa, and was West of Heaven. It was believed to be the House of the Sun, and unlike Mictlan, or the Aztec Underworld, which was gloomy, it was a beautiful valley full of fruits and trees. Women who died in childbirth were called "Mocihuaquetzque", literally "brave women who raise". Often, their deaths would be met with a bittersweet celebration, as these women would go to a place of joy.

Although I disagree with Oprah Winfrey that being a mother is the toughest job in the world, it's a fact that maternal mortality remains unacceptably high, even in first world countries like the US that has an appalling rate. So to the men who think women are designed to pop out babies as if it's the easiest thing to do, they might want to look at WHO stats.

They also ripped people's hearts out with a stone knife to make sure the sun would rise the next day.

Beautiful picture !

Duh

Sparta had similar beliefs. The only people who got a gravestone in spartan culture where men who died in battle and women who died in childbirth.

Where does the baby's soul go?

I doubt these ages are correct. A quick Google says that she may have been born around 1840 and lived to her late 80s (no idea of the accuracy of those claimes, either). But in any case, I'm glad she gained freedom and the right to vote.

A good man

So.... Don't be a pedo? Seems like a pretty good law. I hope they enforced it with corporal or capital punishment.

Her name was Nellie Bly. She also went undercover in a mental institution and exposed the horrors people were suffering there. She was one of the original investigative journalists.

His name was Marcel Marceau, and he wasn't mime at that time. He was just a French teenager trying to help as many children as possible. He became a mime because of those children.

Current literacy rate in the USA for comparison is 79%.

At once cool and unbearably sad

We don’t deserve them. They see us at our best and at our worst. Yet they still accept and love us, happy to see us whether it’s a minute or an hour. We should all aspire to be as perfect as our pups.

The late Queen's Beekeeper had to do this, so still happens sometimes.

Maybe he was born with it....

Someone should make a movie about this.

No doubt the medieval tobacco lobby soon changed his mind

The n@zis didn't have any native speakers, obviously! See the film "Windtalkers"

A lot of those old folk remedies had some truth in them.

"You say potato. I say Potooooooooo. Let's call the whole thing off...."

Legend. I'm surprised he didn't build a still, make banana rum and have a tribe of monkey butlers.

The alcohol acted like antifreeze in his system?

Her mother was a chancer and a monster. She had another chancer who tried to gain power through her as chief advisor. Fortunately Vicky kicked them to the curb brutally. However her childhood governess still exerted considerable control until Prince Albert arrived and forced her out, too.

Europeans of that era were unclean by almost every other standard of the time. Indigenous Americans could reportedly smell the ships while they were miles offshore.

If the ravens leave the Tower, the crown will fall, so the story goes. They always have at least half a dozen and breed them in the aviaries.

Johnny Appleseed for The Navy

Did she gain anything except respect? Like, freedom?

Newgrange is nice, but I recommend its lesser know cousin Knowth. At least when I visited last you where allowed to enter and walk inside it, it is also set for a annual illumination.

Shame his wishes weren't kept.

Anyone looking for an uncommon girls name? Although I think it sounds prettier pronounced in Macedonian than in English. The other two names. Audata and Illyria are even nicer. (I know, Illyria is a place, but it sounds like a great girlsname) Are they common names still in Macedonian areas? I like how this name for me is now part of the "Amazone" names. Like Xena. The earlier mentioned Mevia as well.

I tried that reasoning with my wife when I broke the large casserole dish but she didn't accept it

And most of them were killed because it was too expensive to return them, not as casualty in the war. Today horses are not treated better, they are killed off in cruel ways when people declare them useless. I have two adopted from rescue shelters. Anybody breeding horses beyond demand, starving and neglecting own horses, sending off horses to kill pens, or climbing in helicopters to kill them, should be forbidden to ever even lay eyes on a horse. And that includes getting all mushy about "war horses".

"Want to be a pirate? No? Stay a bl@@dy slave, then!" "Wait, I've changed my mind!"

They were probably the only stories that poor people figured in

"FINE, I'll make my OWN country!"

In pursuit of beaver

Looks in better condition that my gardening tools

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'Supercalifragilisticexpealadocious' was one of his, too.

Half right: when she and king whateverhisnamewas visited napoli, the local burgher decided to give them their local dish as he had heard they were weary of 7 course meals while on the road. Pizza was poor people food and undignified as it was eaten with hands. They enjoyed it, but pizza became a thing outside Napoli after ww2 Italian Americans brought NY style pizza to Europe via Italy.

Happened many times in many cultures through history. Wasn't there a recent TV show about settling the US along these lines?

"Kilroy was here" would have been more succinct

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"Your Uncle Patrick drowned last week in a vat of whiskey in the Dublin Brewery. Some of his workmates tried to save him but he fought them off bravely. They cremated him and it took three days to put out the fire." XD

This still happens today. The pipes carrying water into my home are lead, but they're safe because Indiana has very hard water.

And they still have multiple colonies in every Sainsbury's store in the UK....

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Iron has been forged in Sub-Saharan Africa at least since 800 BCE and possibly even earlier. They essentially skipped the Bronze Age and went directly from Stone to Iron. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_metallurgy_in_Africa

And she went a bit mad as a result. Poor woman. Good film about her, though.

And so naturally we have a picture of clean shaven men to illustrate this

Inca. With a "C".

Started as monks, ended up friars.

The original goldilocks.

A lot of places would not eat them as they were considered poisonous.

And couldn't remember any of it, afterwards.

Clever!