While their urban counterparts were restricted to more traditional female roles in the late 1800’s, women of the American West were roping and riding broncs. The term “cowgirl” first appeared in print by the early 1890s. Before anyone ever heard the word “cowgirl,” there were women who ventured west. Most…
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Mental Floss has summed up some of the most famous people-eaters of the Old West, like Liver-Eating Johnson, whose wife was killed by members of the Crow tribe. Johnson spent the next twenty years killing something like 300 Crows and eating their livers. Then there’s Alferd Packer, also known as…
The arrival of the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV) in South Vietnam during July and August 1962 was the beginning of Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War. Australia’s participation in the war was formally declared at an end when the Governor-General issued a proclamation on 11 January 1973. Nevertheless,…
Brougham carriages were originally designed as a light, four-wheeled, enclosed, one-horse vehicle. They also had two centers doors, and a low coupe body that enclosed a forward facing seat for two occupants. Some carriages even had seats that could fold down to seat small children. These carriages were pulled by…
The Aztec, Toltec and Maya civilizations to the West and North of Panama influenced cultural development in Panama itself. The Aztecs from Mexico sent traders to the Isthmus and some of them settled in Almirante Bay when Montezuma fell. Although the term Aztecs is often narrowly restricted to the Mexica…
By the 1890s, Europeans were buying and driving cars made by Benz, Daimler, Panhard, and others, and Americans were buying and driving cars made by Duryea, Haynes, Winton, and others. Some were fire pumpers that moved by themselves, and others were small locomotives with road wheels. Beginning in the 1880s,…
Within a few years, backpacks had gone from novelty to necessity. Competitors popped up, too. By the late 1980s, nearly every kid walking to school was wearing a backpack. In 1938, when Gerry Outdoors invented the first backpack with a zipper, backpacks were still primarily in use for hiking, camping…
The elderly or a man with great wisdom would become the lawspeaker retelling the Viking laws to judge the criminal. Because of this, there was no stone castle in the Viking Age. As the stone castle came from the different social structure, the Vikings held dear another one, they had…
In Medieval Europe, bakers were often part of the guild system; master bakers instructed apprentices and were assisted by journeymen. A fraternity of bakers existed in London as early as 1155, and the Worshipful Company of Bakers was formed by charters dated 1486, 1569, and 1685. But those who could…