Historical

The Battle of Pinkie
This is a transcript for the We're All Stories podcast. This episode can be heard in all its glory here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1685008/9210429
By Ravenswing4 years ago in FYI
How to Transcend the Fundamentals?. Top Story - September 2021.
Knowing when to ignore your experience is the true sign of experience. -JOHN MAEDA On October 26, 1914, Ernest Shackleton, captain of the Endurance, set sail with a crew of twenty-seven men comprising the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Their goal was to complete the first land crossing of the Antarctic. With an expedition of this difficulty, there was no shortage of planning or coordinating involved.
By Explained4 years ago in FYI
Full Skirts, Cinched Waists, and Women’s Rights
It’s February 12, 1947, the world is rebuilding after WWII, and Christian Dior has just debuted his haute couture fashion line full of voluminous skirts, tiny waists, and padded hips. Completely opposite the rationed and practical styles of wartime, Caramel Snow, the editor of Harper’s Bazaar, excitedly described the designer’s debut collection as a “new look”, thus forever naming the collection and sending Dior into fashion fame. While today we look back and admiringly celebrate the beauty and talent behind the couture gowns, the collection would be a catalyst (albeit one of many) for the second wave of feminism nearly a decade after their debut.
By Chelsea Adler4 years ago in FYI
ENGLISH LITERATURE [ C. 450-1500 ]
Old English literature, or Anglo-Saxon literature, encompasses the surviving literature written in Old English in Anglo-Saxon England, in the period after the settlement of the Saxons and other Germanic tribes in England (Jutes and the Angles) c. 450, after the withdrawal of the Romans, and "ending soon after the Norman Conquest" in 1066. These works include genres such as epic poetry, hagiography, sermons, Bible translations, legal works, chronicles and riddles. In all there are about 400 surviving manuscripts from the period.
By Nira Kumari4 years ago in FYI
How to Master the Multidisciplinary Approach?
If you skillfully follow the multidisciplinary path, you will never wish to come back. It would be like cutting off your hands. - CHARLIE MUNGER
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The Red River Gorge Ghoul
Red River Gorge is a famous bouldering/climbing hot spot to the southeast of Lexington, KY. I only took up bouldering (climbing without ropes) a little less than a year ago but quickly fell in love with the sport and have progressed in strength and skill to become a solidly intermediate level climber. I will be heading down to the Gorge this weekend and had been doing some research online when I stumbled across a few stories that mentioned a so called “Red River Gorge Ghoul or Ghost.” The stories were all quite similar and suggested that this particular ghoul is the vengeful soul of one Jasper Soderburn or J. Soder, a white supremacist/klansman of ill repute from right around the turn of the century. In addition to his virulent racism this J. Soder dabbled in some fairly abhorrent religious/occult practices and was said to have been almost expelled (or actually expelled) from the Klan because of them.
By Everyday Junglist4 years ago in FYI
11th September, 2001
I wonder how many of us remember where we were on the 11th September, 2001? I was at work and a colleague came back from break and said that something terrible was happening in the United States. We turned on the radio and listened in silence! After work, I went straight to my mother’s house and we spent the evening together, eyes glued to the news on t.v. and eating dinner.
By Ruth Elizabeth Stiff4 years ago in FYI
Why Americans Have Different Accents and How it Can Affect Your Life
I was born in Chicago, but grew up in Milwaukee, and while both cities are in the Midwest, they can have different accents and different slang, which is true of many states, or even in different sections of individual cities. A much more glaring difference is when you compare a Southern accent with a Northern accent. I had no idea how different these things were until I married a Southerner and started to wonder, "How did it get this way? The country isn't that old." So I did some research.
By Gene Lass4 years ago in FYI
The Victorian Mental Asylum
The original meaning of the word Asylum is “retreat” or “sanctuary” and they were built to protect mentally ill patients. We may have heard very real horror stories about how patients were treated in these past asylums but what really happened?
By Ruth Elizabeth Stiff4 years ago in FYI
Pumpkin Spice Lattes = Labor day. Top Story - September 2021.
To me, Labor Day was always linked to my birthday- granted it only happens once every seven years, but it feels like my own special day. Unlike my mother, who always gets to share her birthday with Veterans Day! For the last 21 years, it was a free day off of work for me- an extended birthday weekend with pay. It is also the undeclared official start of school, Pumpkin Spice Latte's, NFL games, and the end of hot dogs and wearing white. I am not great at celebrating holidays, but as I am now at a pivotal birthday, I think I should get to know why we celebrate certain holidays. And, of course- I found the memes to make this so much more fun.
By Rose Loren Geer-Robbins4 years ago in FYI
Royal Indian Navy Uprising
I came across the same old arguments about who contributed the most to India's struggle while preparing to write this article. Some views about what freedom means, and what should it mean. Common amongst all this literature are echoes from intellectual ghettoes, a place where the common Indian does not belong. So, I decided to find something we all often forget-the contribution of the common Indian folk.
By Varun Yadav4 years ago in FYI
Gilgamesh: The Tragic Hero Who Fell to the Gods
The Epic of Gilgamesh is an ancient Mesopotamian odyssey that tells the adventures of Gilgamesh, an incredibly powerful demigod with superhuman strength, and the ruler of Uruk. However, in the world that this story is in, there is a group of much stronger beings known as “gods”. Even though Gilgamesh is the almighty hero of the epic, and the king of Uruk, the gods are actually the ones in the role of the ruler of the world, and wield absolute power and control over the mortals, especially Gilgamesh himself.
By James Guo4 years ago in FYI