Category History

Ancient DNA

At 75, I’m enormously bored with life. My eyes are not good . . . can’t read for more than a few minutes. I love world literature, just can’t do it anymore. So I’ve become a cinephile. A movie lover.…

Six Women Pulled Off a Computing Miracle

Women’s hidden history (buried, actually), by Jeremy Keeshin. They programmed the world’s first computer—with no manuals, no training. Then, a SINGLE assumption erased them from tech history for decades. The story of how ONE photo nearly deleted computing’s female founders: Kathy…

Jonathan Swift — A Real Prankster

Swift was an ordained Priest in the Anglican Church and served as dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral for much of his life. In between writing sermons and performing his church duties, he was a satirist and a prankster. A truly…

The genius of Fleischer Studios

Because there is a movement afoot to erase history, ☞ Black History Month and Women’s History Month were both canceled BUT NOT ON MY WATCH! As an educator, I will not allow any of that to be canceled. I’m about…

Cecilia Payne

In women’s history, we are continually digging up their achievements, which when first presented to the world, were presented by men, by the men who stole the credit for their achievements, because we all know that since the beginning of…

Gaspar Yanga

This article was lifted from Twitter, word for word, and again I am unable to reference the author since the account was not the name of a human being, just Historic Vids. However, I have fact checked it. Gaspar Yanga…