Unruly History in the News #3
I will not be talking about the Van Gogh/Tomato Soup Incident.
Sorry I missed last week’s news update y’all! I got laid off at work a couple of weeks ago and I’ve just been applying for jobs non-stop ever since. I ended up completely forgetting about last week’s post. But here we go with this week’s news:
This week in history acting unruly…
There are gift shops (yes, plural) at Guantanamo and now I know for sure that we live in the worst timeline.
Scientists are considering making Tasmanian devils de-extinct. They believe that this will help restore their eco-systems.
Security forces in Iran fired on peaceful protestors and worshippers at a mosque on Friday. It may be the deadliest day so far of the month-long protests and is already being referred to as Bloody Friday.
A gate to Hell? Ancient Romans watched in awe as animals mysteriously dropped dead at this monument, they believed it was a gateway to the Underworld. Scientists have found a more pedestrian explanation: Carbon dioxide.
44 remarkably well-preserved Byzantine coins were found stashed in a wall in Golan Heights.
Did you collect action figures as a kid? Here’s how G.I. Joe set off the craze for collecting that adults still love.
President John F. Kennedy (back turned) speaks with members of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council. White House Photographs courtesy of John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston. Source. What the Cuban Missile Crisis can teach us about ending the war in Ukraine.
Excavations in East England have revealed an ancient dining hall used by kings and warriors.
Climate change and erosion are generally considered bad, but here’s a silver lining: The changing climate has revealed a ‘superhighway’ of ancient footprints in England.
The new Ken Burns documentary, The U.S. and the Holocaust, doesn’t deliver on historical accuracy or new information. Disappointing.
Though the news this year has been full of an overturned U.S. Supreme Court decision, it’s actually pretty rare. Here are 8 times the Supreme Court has gone back on a decision.
A Galileo manuscript turned out to be a forgery. But that discovery led to the discovery of another manuscript he did write under a pseudonym.
