Weekly History Questions Thread.
(self.history)
24 points
r/history
Bookclub and Sources Wednesday!
20th-century settlement drove the extinction of the California grizzly; one of the last was killed in a Los Angeles suburb in 1916
(sfgate.com)
292 points
89 years ago, an SF to Hawaii flight changed the world forever
66 points
Turkey's ornate Ottoman-era 'bird palaces'
(bbc.com)
94 points
Myth of the First Empire: Why Akkad Wasn't Rome
135 points
The Secret Trial of the General Who Refused to Attack Tiananmen Square
(nytimes.com)
926 points
True origin of 'first black Briton' revealed
(bbc.co.uk)
509 points
Four medieval spearheads have been found in Lake Lednica in Poland. One may have belonged to a nobleman or prince.
(livescience.com)
262 points
In 1843, Sir Henry Cole, the first director of the V&A, commissioned artist John Callcott Horsley to create what became the first Christmas card. The design showed Cole’s family celebrating and acts of charity; 1,000 cards were printed for personal greetings.
(vam.ac.uk)
102 points
First objects retrieved from the mythical Spanish galleon San Jose Sank in 1708 after being attacked by an English Fleet, Authorities said Thursday.
(cbsnews.com)
357 points
In 1903, Griffith J. Griffith gifted 3,000 acres of land to Los Angeles for a public park. That same year, he shot his wife in a hotel room during a paranoid delusion.
912 points
Volcanic Eruption Set the Stage for the Black Death, Researchers Find
(medievalists.net)
307 points
The Business Plot, or When J.P. Morgan’s Pals Tried To Overthrow FDR - New England Historical Society
(newenglandhistoricalsociety.com)
972 points
Museum housing Libya's ancient treasures reopens for first time since 2011 uprising that toppled Gadhafi
(nbcnews.com)
131 points
Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic
(theguardian.com)
543 points
While in Verona in 1345, Petrarch discovered, in the library of the Duomo, the letters of Cicero to his lifelong friend Atticus, as well as his letters to Quintus and Brutus.
(historyofinformation.com)
79 points
Ancient Egyptian pleasure boat found by archaeologists off Alexandria coast
709 points
20 points
Versailles excavation reveals new insights into the Queen’s and Dauphin’s courts
(heritagedaily.com)
How a Near-Shipwreck on a Luxury Ocean Liner Inspired a Decade of Disaster Movies
(smithsonianmag.com)
34 points
An excavation in a small French village reveals three 1800 year old jars with thousands of Roman coins
991 points
The moment the earliest known man-made fire was uncovered - BBC News
468 points
Will the Pellier Brother who Performed the first Glass Keratoprosthesis (Artificial Cornea) Please Stand Up?
(researchgate.net)
17 points
42 points