Surviving the Titanic - dining on Carpathia ~food history Video 22:15, published Oct 15 2024 12 votes
Feared lost now rediscovered - documentary about life in Brazilian Amazon from 1918 that has been hailed as a classic emerges from depths of Czech archive ~movies documentaries Article 748 words, published Oct 7 2023 17 votes
Remembering the Philadelphia ‘Pathetics’, the worst baseball team in history ~sports.baseball Article 1386 words, published Sep 27 2023 4 votes
Endurance, Ernest Shackleton’s ship, lost in 1915, is found in Antarctica ~humanities.history Article 1035 words 18 votes
The World Series was rigged. Hugh Fullerton's revolutionary analysis backed it up. But in 1919 his calls were ignored by a game now transformed by data. ~sports.baseball Article 1985 words 4 votes
The secret of how Roald Amundsen beat Captain Robert Falcon Scott in race to south pole? A diet of raw penguin ~humanities.history Article 950 words 7 votes
Sámi National Day – National day that falls on February 6th. This date was when the first Sámi congress was held in 1917 in Trondheim, Norway ~life Article 398 words 11 votes
How did the Qing dynasty collapse? The Xinhai revolution explained ~humanities.history Video 14:27, published Jun 18 2019 3 votes
Lili Boulanger - Vieille prière bouddhique (1917) ~music classical Video 8:29, published Aug 21 2018 5 votes
US court grants permission to recover Marconi telegraph from Titanic wreckage—but NOAA is fiercely opposed to the controversial salvage mission ~transport Article 1379 words 6 votes
This isn't the first time a crisis has come during election year. So how have we dealt with things like this before? ~humanities.history Article 1729 words 8 votes
The flu killed forty million in 1918. Every flu season since is descended from it ~humanities.history Article 1527 words, published Mar 7 2020 9 votes
The extraordinary story of Joy Whitehead - female soldier of the first world war ~humanities.history Article 1600 words, published Nov 5 2019 8 votes
Mystery blast sank the USS San Diego in 1918. New report reveals what happened ~humanities.history Article 608 words 8 votes
The "Oldest book you own" thread set me off having a look through my bookshelf. I came across a first edition 1912 copy of The Yoga Sutras of PatanJali by Charles Johnston. ~books Image 5 votes