History
Emily D West ☞ Women in Texas History
“Given the history of female prisoners of war, however, it is more likely that she was a victim of sexual assault than that she seduced General Santa Ana to save Texas.”
San Jacinto Day honors Texans who fought for freedom in 1836 ☞ wfaa.com
“But the Texans caught them off-guard that afternoon thanks, in part, to a woman named Emily West – later dubbed the Yellow Rose of Texas”
Thomas Lipscomb: The Secrets of the Zapruder Film ☞ Emerald Robinson’s The Right Way – Substack
“Was the most famous film of JFK’s assassination altered by the government?”
Edward Bernays: Propaganda and the U.S.-Backed 1954 Guatemalan Coup ☞ CovertAction Magazine
“Bernays understood the truth is malleable based on an individual’s needs. People are not purely rational actors. They make choices contrary to their self-interest, ignore facts they find inconvenient, and avoid information that may damage their ego.”
Ten Things We Still Don’t Know About Lee Harvey Oswald ☞ Listverse
“He then quit or was fired from several menial jobs before landing a minimum-wage gig at the Book Depository in mid-October 1963.”
The Medieval Toilet And How Bathrooms Worked In The Middle Ages ☞ All That’s Interesting
“There were a couple of different designs for these commodes. The waste shafts of some medieval toilets ran down the exterior of a fort into moats or rivers, while others were designed with internal castle channels that funneled waste into a courtyard or cesspit.”
The Short, Sad Life of Dina Sanichar, The Real-Life ‘Mowgli’ Who Was Raised By Wolves ☞ All That’s Interesting
“The story of the real-life Mowgli didn’t end the way the Disney version did.”
The 1800s: When Americans Drank Whiskey Like it was Water ☞ Paste
“In modern terms, those seven gallons are the equivalent of 1.7 bottles of a standard 80-proof liquor per person, per week—nearly 90 bottles a year for every adult in the nation, even with abstainers (and there were millions of them) factored in.”
The Pig War – San Juan Island National Historical Park ☞ U.S. National Park Service
“The crisis came on June 15, 1859, when Lyman Cutlar, an American, shot and killed a company pig rooting in his garden.”
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