This is an interesting and informative post about a dispute over a refence to olive colored skin in a book by Madeline Miller. The author…

The Evolution of Geek Culture explains where the word “geek” originated and the label’s wide variety of interpretations over the past century. The label “geek”…

This is an interesting post about misconceptions about historical marriages and the age that women were wed. I really do hope that the idea the…

This is a neat post that lists some unlikely simultaneous historical events. It’s hard to believe that these parts of history happened at the same…

Paul Cooper posted this interesting history thread about some ancient ruins research he did about the Temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens, Greece. He became…

This post is an awesome collection of historical misconceptions that are really fun facts! This is actually a longer version of the The Tiffany Problem…

This is an interesting post about obsolete hand gestures. It starts with the fact that kids don’t do the thumb-and-pinky-out gesture for “phone” anymore. But…

People often get confused about the actual dates for historical eras so marzipanandminutiae set the record straight! Here’s a list of periods from the 1600s…

Here is the Wikipedia page for the old timey trans man Harry Allen. And he sure did earn it earned entirely due to him doing…

Wow. The phrase “reality distortion field” is a term first used by Bud Tribble at Apple Computer in 1981. He coined the term to describe…