For a small amount of perspective at this moment, imagine you were born in 1900. When you are 14, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday with 22 million people killed. Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until you are 20. Fifty million people die from it in those two years. Yes, 50 million. ...
1. February 15th: A Celebration of sexual liberation Valentine or Lupercaliahttps://hisfu.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Valentine-or-Lupercalia.mp3 Based on the Roman festival of the same name, Lupercalia falls on February 15. Lupercalia may have started at the time of the founding of Rome (traditionally 753 B.C.) or ev...
Published in 1970 when U.S. society was in chaos amid riots over the Vietnam War, “Future Shock,” sold millions of copies and was translated into dozens of languages, catapulting Toffler to international fame. The book presciently forecast how people and institutions of the late 20th century would contend with the immense strai...
Microsoft, is one of the leading video game makers and the creator of the Xbox. Presently, Bill Gates’ goal is to bring into the public school classroom “educational” versions of new video games that make them “perfect” companions for standardized testing, but one must ask the question, what truly is the ideal companion for...
“I say this with all the earnestness and sincerity of a scientist who has spent nearly twenty years research into the chemistry, biochemistry, physiology and pathology of fluorine. Any person who drinks artificially fluoridated water for a period of one year or more will never again be the same person, mentally or physically.”...
Called Louwala-Clough, or “the Smoking Mountain,” by Native Americans, Mount St. Helens is located in the Cascade Range and stood 9,680 feet before its eruption. The volcano has erupted periodically during the last 4,500 years, and the last active period was between 1831 and 1857. 1980 : Mount St. Helens eruptionhttps:/...
January 29, 2022 1 min to read
FIRST FEMALE PILOT TO FLY ACROSS ATLANTIC
Category : HISTORY, UNIVERSE
On May 20, 1932, five years to the day after Lindbergh’s flight, Earhart took off from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, in her red Lockheed Vega 5B. She encountered many difficulties; “Earhart fought fatigue, a leaky fuel tank, and a cracked manifold that spewed flames out the side of the engine cowling,” writes the Smithsonian In...
January 29, 2022 1 min to read
THE WORLD’S FIRST UNIVERSITY MUSEUM
Category : CULTURE, HISTORY, UNIVERSE
On June 6, 1683, The Ashmolean, the world’s first university museum, opens in Oxford, England. THE WORLD'S FIRST UNIVERSITY MUSEUMhttps://hisfu.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/THE-WORLDS-FIRST-UNIVERSITY-MUSEUM.mp3 At the time of the English Restoration, Oxford was the center of scientific activity in England...
Samuel Morse demonstrates the world’s first telegraph message, “What hath God wrought?” The world’s first telegraph messagehttps://hisfu.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/The-worlds-first-telegraph-message.mp3 On May 24, 1844, Samuel Morse inaugurated the world’s first commercial telegraph line with a mess...