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Ancient Skeletons from 3,500 Years Ago Are Challenging What Scientists Thought About Syphilis and Its Origins

Three children buried in Vietnam show congenital treponemal disease at least 3,500 years ago, complicating how researchers date syphilis in bone

Medical Daily · Aug 13

Quote of the Day by Sean Connery: "If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus." - why the legendary James Bond star never feared reinvention? The unexpected life lesson about reinventing yourself so often that even history would lose count

Quote of the Day by the legendary James Bond icon reminds us that life rewards those who never stop reinventing themselves. Wrapped in humor, his famous words reveal a timeless truth: every fresh start adds strength, wisdom, and experience. The people who embrace change again and again are the ones…

The Economic Times · Jun 27

Trump welcomes Columbus to the White House – and reignites America’s history wars

Christopher Columbus is back. At least, a statue of him is back, reinstalled by US President Donald Trump on the White House grounds in late March – part of the president’s stated mission to cancel “cancel culture”.

The Conversation · Apr 5

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Ancient children's teeth reveal a syphilis-like disease was spreading in Vietnam 4,000 years ago

Remains from three Stone Age children in Vietnam may challenge long-standing ideas about the origin of syphilis, scientists say.

LiveScience · Apr 2

73 Things New Yorkers Don’t Think Are Weird But Outsiders Noticed Immediately

It’s worth seeing the place you live through the eyes of a tourist: no established routines or old preconceptions to cloud your judgment, just an entirely clear slate. It can really put things into perspective—the good, but maybe also the bad, if people are honest in their observations. When someone…

Bored Panda · Mar 30

Netflix just added the funniest zombie survival film — and there are 32 rules you need to follow

Jesse Eisenberg and his zombie survival rules have arrived on Netflix, and "Zombieland" is my favorite comedy-horror movie of all time.

Tom’s Guide · Mar 1

A forgotten explorer, the first Greek who reached Britain 1,500 years before modern travel

History tends to cluster its explorers in the same few centuries, frequently ignoring older figures whose expeditions left fewer evidence. Long before Marco Polo travelled east or Columbus crossed the Atlantic, a Greek adventurer from the Mediterranean is believed to have sailed into portions of Europe that were well outside…

The Times of India · Feb 4

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For Trump, there’s Columbus Day and Victory Day, but no World Aids Day

Administration said ‘awareness is not a strategy’, but here is a short list of orders the president has signed to do just that

The Guardian - US · Nov 27, 2025

Jews were barred from Spain’s New World colonies − but that didn’t stop Jewish and converso writers from describing the Americas

Every few years, a story about Columbus resurfaces: Was the Genoese navigator who claimed the Americas for Spain secretly Jewish, from a Spanish family fleeing the Inquisition?

The Conversation · Jun 27, 2025

25 Of The Biggest Mistakes That Changed The Course Of History

Destroyed centuries of knowledge. Whoopsie.

Bored Panda · May 28, 2025

24 Times History Got Twisted And People Were Convinced To Believe False Facts, As Shared Online

There are many false historical claims that were never backed by any historical evidence, and this Reddit thread lists some of the most famous ones out there.

Bored Panda · May 2, 2025

Name Games: Trump’s ‘Gulf of America’ Move Flouts History, International Cooperation

The president could just as logically rename the body of water the “Chinese Sea,” one historian argues.

Texas Observer · Jan 24, 2025

Ancient bones shed new light on debate over origins of syphilis

Study finds 9,000-year-old remains in Americas hold genomes of bacteria family that causes disease

The Guardian - UK · Dec 18, 2024

Climate change could end America's power

America's global hegemony is in rapid, irreversible decline. But what happens after that?

Salon · Sep 20, 2024

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Evening Standard · Jun 15, 2024

Best anthropology books, from Jane Goodall to John Green

The history of humanity, what separates between humans and animals, and everything in between

The Independent UK · Jun 14, 2024

Japanese band removes ‘outrageous’ music video featuring ape-like natives in song called ‘Columbus’

Mrs Green Apple band apologized, saying they intended to depict ‘life forms of different ages having a home party’

Inverse · Oct 11, 2023

This 1500-Year-Old Human Poop Sample Reveals Something Strange About Ancient Diets

Mummified poop from pre-Columbian humans Huecoid and Saladoid shows a diet of maize, sweet potato, peanuts, and traces of tobacco and cotton.

Tribune News Service · Apr 10, 2023

John M. Crisp: Fly to Mars? Maybe. But why?

Last week NASA announced the names of the four astronauts who will crew Artemis II, a 10-day mission planned for November 2024. The expedition will boost humans out of an Earth-bound orbit for the first time since 1972 and put them into orbit around the moon, in preparation for subsequent…

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Los Angeles Times · Nov 24, 2022

Commentary: End the romance of Thanksgiving, as a great Pequot scholar argued 2 centuries ago

In November 1620 the Mayflower deposited about 100 Pilgrims at the Wampanoag community of Patuxet, which the newcomers renamed New Plymouth. A year later, the English and Wampanoags enjoyed a three-day feast. For generations, Americans have celebrated that meal as the first Thanksgiving.

The Independent UK · Aug 26, 2022

Shaquille O’Neal peddles Flat Earth conspiracy theory after claiming he ‘flew straight’ to Australia

‘I drive from coast to coast, and this s**t is flat to me,’ the former NBA star claimed

Inverse · Jul 23, 2022

Disease experts and historians can’t agree on when syphilis came to Europe

Opinion: The theory syphilis came to Europe from the Americas is wrong, according to ongoing research by paleopathologists, scientists who study skeletal remains for evidence of disease.

The Conversation · Jul 13, 2022

Manuscripts and art support archaeological evidence that syphilis was in Europe long before explorers could have brought it home from the Americas

That the arrival of Europeans in the New World in 1492 led to a massive shift in the ecological landscape has been widely accepted for the past 50 years. Suddenly a trans-Atlantic exchange – maize for wheat, tomatoes for apples, tobacco for horses – meant that plants and animals were…

Reason · Jun 6, 2022

New Haven's Removal of Columbus Statue from Public Park Isn't a First Amendment Violation

From Friday's decision by Judge Janet C. Hall (D. Conn.) in American Italian Women for Greater New Haven v. City of New Haven: [T]he Columbus statue is government speech and, as such, AIW has no cognizable free speech interest in it. Indeed, the Supreme Court has directly foreclosed such a…

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