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July 14, 2020

Davy Crockett: From the Alamo to Walt Disney and Everywhere in Between

Davy Crockett, the famous congressional frontiersman who died during the siege of the Alamo Mission, is just as well known for his real-life exploits as his comic book adventures and romps through Walt Disney’s cinematic playground. He is truly a pop culture icon having featured in theater, comics, ballads, feature films, and television series.

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July 10, 2020

Professor Cooks 3,770-Year-Old Recipes From Mesopotamia and Shares Surprising Results

It's not unusual for people to use recipes from decades past as a way to explore what dishes were like from long ago, but Bill Sutherland took this idea to another level with his recent endeavor into ancient food preparation. Using a 3,770-year-old Mesopotamian tablet as his recipe book, the University of Cambridge professor cooked a now-viral feast that those living in 1750 BCE Babylon would’ve eaten. So, what was on the menu?

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July 6, 2020

Civil Rights Pioneer Leona Tate Is Turning School She Helped Desegregate Into Center for Equality

One November morning in 1960, four first-grade girls broke ground when they set foot in their new schools. Flanked by U.S. Marshals and mobbed by angry protestors, six-year-olds Leona Tate, Gail Etienne, Tessie Prevost, and Ruby Bridges walked toward two all-white institutions, kickstarting the desegregation process in New Orleans—making history one step at a time.

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June 22, 2020

Rare Book Collector Reveals Tibetan Book Printed Before the Gutenberg Bible

The Gutenberg Printing Press truly revolutionized western society with its introduction of mass produced printed materials for a relatively cheap price, which helped encourage literacy among the lower classes. However, the practice of printing books had actually been occurring long before 1450 in the Far East. A rare book collector on Twitter recently debuted a Sino-Tibetan “concertina-folded book” that is estimated to have been printed in Beijing around 1410.

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