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Sarah Laskow

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A 16th-century German woodcut depicting the uselessness of chastity belts. (They can have more than one key.)

medieval

Everything You've Heard About Chastity Belts Is a Lie

Including their very existence.

By Sarah Laskow
A sloth getting comfy in a tree.

animals

Sloths: Cute or Disgusting?

There are strong arguments both ways.

By Sarah Laskow
Maurice Sendak died in 2012.

art

Found: An Unpublished Manuscript by Maurice Sendak

The illustrations and text were hiding in his files.

By Sarah Laskow
Madeira wine from 1796, and a larger jug from the 1820s.

collections

Found: Three Cases of Madeira Bought for John Adams’ Presidency

The wine still tastes pretty decent.

By Sarah Laskow
Emperor Norton, during his reign.

emperor norton

A New Map Tracks the Life of San Francisco's Emperor Norton

Walking tour, anyone?

By Sarah Laskow
A Puritan lady (as imagined by a 19th-century artist).

fashion

The Hidden Rules of the Puritan Fashion Police

Slashed sleeves, frizzed hair, or a gold hatband could land you in court.

By Sarah Laskow
Found: A Purse Hidden in the Library Walls Since 1966

libraries

Found: A Purse Hidden in the Library Walls Since 1966

A dentist's reservation card was one of the best clues inside.

By Sarah Laskow
This is a time capsule.

news

Found: A Buried Bomb That Was Actually a Hip ‘80s Time Capsule

It looks a lot like a bomb.

By Sarah Laskow
Leibold's hand-drawn map for the Choose Your Own Adventure story Grand Canyon Odyssey.

maps

These Hand-Drawn Maps Helped Create 'Choose Your Own Adventure' Books

Author Jay Leibold shares the branching maps he created while writing his first CYOA stories.

By Sarah Laskow
The skeletons were unusually large for their time.

cemeteries

Found: 5,000-Year-Old Skeletons of Very Tall People in China

They were giants for their time.

By Sarah Laskow
Monticello.

archaeology

Found: The Remains of Sally Hemings' Small Room at Monticello

It was right near Thomas Jefferson's bedroom.

By Sarah Laskow
The time capsule itself.

schools

Found: Surprise Time Capsule Hiding in the Walls of a High School Gym

It was almost destroyed along with the building.

By Sarah Laskow
The rift in the Larsen C ice shelf.

news

What Happens When the Growing Rift in an Antarctic Ice Shelf Finally Breaks?

A new, giant iceberg could be born any day now.

By Sarah Laskow
The stones at Avebury, hanging with some sheep.

ancient cults

Found: A Hidden Stone Square Inside the World’s Largest Megalithic Stone Circles

The monument at Avebury still has secrets to be uncovered.

By Sarah Laskow
The HMAS Sydney was secretly carrying a bottle of whisky all this time.

ships

Found: A Bottle of Whisky Hidden in a Ship’s Mast

It spent 35 years at sea.

By Sarah Laskow
Over time, the boundaries agreed to in the 1760s were renegotiated, as shown on this map of the "Southern Indian District of North America," 1775.

maps

Britain's Futile Attempt to Keep American Colonists From Taking Tribal Land

British surveyors and Native American leaders drew a border along the Appalachians. Then the Revolutionary War happened.

By Sarah Laskow
Found: A Giant, 20-Pound Lobster on a Journey

food

Found: A Giant, 20-Pound Lobster on a Journey

The TSA screened this surprisingly large specimen.

By Sarah Laskow
The bog butter bundle, after 18 months.

food

I Can't Believe It's Butter That Was Buried in a Bog!

Following an ancient Irish practice, one man made his own bog butter.

By Sarah Laskow
Parties where playwrights like Moliere read aloud were precursors to rowdy book clubs.

libraries

Even in the 1700s, Book Clubs Were Really About Drinking and Socializing

And "a considerable element of boisterous good humor."

By Sarah Laskow
One of the kilns.

medieval

Found: A Remarkable Trove of Medieval Pottery

Thousands of pieces of pottery were hiding under one town's Memorial Hall.

By Sarah Laskow
The mass grave found at Lützen.

cemeteries

How to Make Sense of a Mass Grave

A fascinating case study from the Thirty Years' War.

By Sarah Laskow
The recreation of a Viking settlement in Denmark.

vikings

Found: A Viking Toilet, the Oldest Bathroom in Denmark

This new discovery goes against previous ideas of Viking bathroom culture.

By Sarah Laskow
The shelter after the overgrowth was cleared away.

abandoned

Found: An Abandoned Air Raid Shelter Hidden Beneath the Brush

The site where it was found is said to be haunted, too.

By Sarah Laskow
Vladimir Durov in costume, circa 1915.

science

How a Soviet Circus Clown Tried to Prove That Dogs Can Be Psychic

In the 1920s, USSR scientists investigated “biological radio communications,” more popularly known as telepathy.

By Sarah Laskow
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