Gerry WhiteFalse Facts About The Titanic You Always Thought Were TrueBy GrungeThe sinking of the Titanic was a disaster on a monumental scale, ending with the deaths of 1,500 passengers in the frigid Atlantic Ocean. It's been elevated to one of those moments in history that feel more myth and legend than real, a horrible, terrible disaster that most of us can't fathom being a part of. That epic status has led to countless misconceptions being repeated again and again as absolute fact, and we're here to do some educating.
Gerry WhiteUnited States False Facts About The Wild West You Always Thought Were True grunge.com - Adam James By /April 30, 2017 9:00 am EDT/Updated: Aug. 24, 2020 2:51 pm EDT If you travel to any foreign country and ask someone there what they know about …
Gerry White Biopics That Lied To Your Face grunge.com - Tom Meisfjord By /June 18, 2019 1:47 pm EDT It may shock you to hear this, but even with Hollywood's reputation as the capital of moral decency, a lot of what it …
Gerry WhiteJoseph Stalin Famous Historical Events That Are Mostly Made Up grunge.com - Becki Robins By /Oct. 31, 2017 4:24 pm EDT/Updated: Jan. 9, 2019 3:15 pm EDT The problem with history is that it's recorded by people, and people aren't the most …
Gerry White Famous Events That Never Actually Happened grunge.com - Benito Cereno By /Sept. 20, 2017 12:41 pm EDT/Updated: March 15, 2019 2:50 pm EDT The ancient Greek writer Herodotus had two nicknames, "the father of history" and …
Gerry WhiteThomas Edison Lies You Learned In History Class grunge.com - Grunge Staff By /Aug. 18, 2017 1:00 pm EDT/Updated: Feb. 17, 2021 9:49 am EDT History has a funny way of repeating itself, especially when the people repeating it …
Gerry WhiteWhy Do Most Zippers Say "YKK" on the Pull-Tab?By HowStuffWorksHave you ever noticed that "YKK" is on the pull-tab of almost every zipper? Where did this mysterious "YKK" come from? Plus, the answers to more peculiar questions!
Gerry WhiteFalse Facts About The Titanic You Always Thought Were TrueBy GrungeThe sinking of the Titanic was a disaster on a monumental scale, ending with the deaths of 1,500 passengers in the frigid Atlantic Ocean. It's been elevated to one of those moments in history that feel more myth and legend than real, a horrible, terrible disaster that most of us can't fathom being a part of. That epic status has led to countless misconceptions being repeated again and again as absolute fact, and we're here to do some educating.
Gerry WhiteIreland False Facts About The Titanic You Always Thought Were True grunge.com - Debra Kelly By /Feb. 27, 2017 9:00 am EDT/Updated: Oct. 5, 2017 11:21 am EDT The sinking of the Titanic was a disaster on a monumental scale, ending with the …
Gerry White 'Green-eyed monster' and 'stiff upper lip’: the evolution of the English language historyextra.com Throughout history, thousands of words have been adopted from around the world into the English vocabulary. Writing for History Extra, Charlie Haylock …
Gerry White 10 Mind-blowing Alcohol Facts howstuffworks.com - by Patrick J. Kiger Drinking has been so widespread throughout history that Patrick McGovern, an archaeological chemist at the University of Pennsylvania, called it "a …
Gerry WhiteWhat Causes 'Old Person' Smell?By HowStuffWorksWe all recognize "old person" smell whenever it happens to grace our nostrils. But what in the world causes it? Plus, why can't we smell our own houses? And what causes "new car" smell?
Gerry White Magna Carta: everything you wanted to know historyextra.com Professor David Carpenter responds to listener questions on the great medieval charter and its 800-year-long legacy Professor David Carpenter responds …
Gerry White Christmas carols: the history behind 9 festive favourites historyextra.com For many, Christmas is not complete without listening to the atmospheric and angelic sound of carols. Here, journalists Alexandra Coghlan and Eugene …
Gerry White The Soviet Spy Who Invented the First Major Electronic Instrument smithsonianmag.com - Nora McGreevy In the early 1920s, Soviet radio engineer León Theremin shocked audiences around the world with what appeared, at first glance, to be a magic trick. …
Gerry White The Falklands War: Margaret Thatcher's great victory Live Science - Nick Soldinger When British sovereign territory was invaded for the first time in a generation, everyone said it would be impossible to reclaim. In 1982, British …
Gerry White Why do we say ‘Bah Humbug’ and what does it mean? historyextra.com When the sleigh bells ring, the halls are decked and the goose is getting fat, there are always the Christmas curmudgeons who reject the merriment of …
Gerry White7 Reasons Alexander the Great Was, Well, GreatBy HowStuffWorksDid he deserve the title Alexander the Great? Absolutely. Learn what made Alexander the Great so great and other fascinating facts about the ancient world.
Gerry White What was the Boston Tea Party and why did it happen? historyextra.com What was the Boston Tea Party and why did it happen? The events of 16 December 1773 had global origins, suggests Benjamin Carp, and have since …
Gerry White The Rise and Fall (and Rise?) of the Military Seaplane verified_publisherPopular Mechanics - By Alex HollingsOnce seen as the future of aviation, seaplanes are now mostly forgotten relics of early aviation. But a new monster seaplane suggests these aquatic aircraft aren’t dead yet. At 10:18 a.m. local time on...
Gerry WhiteThe Untold Truth Of The Ark Of The CovenantBy GrungeThe Ark of the Covenant is one of the holiest artifacts of the Hebrew Bible. So holy, in fact, even looking at it or touching it could be deadly. Thanks to the massive success and cultural ubiquity of the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark featuring two-fisted archaeologist Indiana Jones racing Nazi nogoodniks to the location of the miraculous chest, people have a basic conception of what the Ark of the Covenant is. That is to say, they know it's a thing that belongs in a museum and Nazis shouldn
Gerry WhiteHow to Substitute Almost Any IngredientBy EatingWellPlanning ahead is great, but even the best cooks can't be expected to have every single ingredient in the universe in their kitchen at all times. And when you can't get to the store—for example if you are social distancing—or if stores are sold out of ingredients, it's completely fine to turn to substitutions. Here's what to substitute for some of the most common cooking and baking ingredients.
Gerry White This newly-discovered wasp has a horrifying stinger—but what it uses it for is even worse verified_publisherPopular Science - Neel V. PatelThat's some big stinger energy. Charles Darwin once cited the evolution of parasitoid wasps as an illustration for why he couldn’t believe in the existence of God. An insect capable of injecting caterpillar...
Gerry WhiteWhat's Inside Mount Rushmore's Not-So-Secret Chamber?By HowStuffWorksBehind the giant faces on Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills region of South Dakota, there lies a chamber that's off-limits to the public. But what's in there?
Gerry White Why Is That Rotating Tray a Lazy Susan, not an Apathetic Amy? howstuffworks.com - by Laurie L. Dove If your home has a corner cabinet, odds are it has a lazy Susan tucked away inside. Perhaps there is a lazy Susan atop the center of your dining room …
Gerry WhiteRussia What Really Happened to Yuri Gagarin, the First Man in Space? howstuffworks.com There have been a lot of groundbreaking firsts in human history, but only one person can claim to be the first in outer space. That's Yuri Gagarin, a …
Gerry White Royal history rewritten: Lost 'diary' shows Henry VIII was ‘soft, kind and manipulated' express.co.uk - Callum Hoare ROYAL history is missing a key figure in its narrative, a former professional archaeologist-turned author has told Express.co.uk, and his writings …
Gerry White The Russian revolution: everything you wanted to know historyextra.com Robert Service responds to listener questions and popular search enquiries about the Russian revolutions of 1917, which saw the beginnings of the …
Gerry White Taranto: The Nearly Forgotten Attack That Inspired Pearl Harbor nationalinterest.org - Michael Peck Here's What You Need To Know: The prelude to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor occurred two years earlier in the small Italian port of Taranto. “This was …
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