History

October 31, 2025

Who Was Marie Curie? Learn More About This Pioneering Nobel Prize Winner

Polish-born researcher and professor Marie Curie is arguably the most well-known female scientist of all time. With an intellect that would have been exceptional in any age, Curie was also remarkable for her achievements in fields dominated almost exclusively by men during the late-19th and early-20th centuries. A woman participating in physics, chemistry, or academia was by its very occurence a pioneering feat.

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October 7, 2025

Expedition Recovers Treasure Worth Over $1 Million From Shipwreck off Florida Coast

In Florida’s Treasure Coast, a fortune that had been hidden for centuries has finally come to light. Over the summer, the 1715 Fleet – Queens Jewels, LLC, a shipwreck salvage operation, recovered a treasure worth over $1 million. In addition to the monetary valuation of the precious metals they found, the bounty’s discovery is also rich with information that pieces the puzzle of its history.

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October 1, 2025

Watch ‘Momijigari’: Japan’s Oldest Surviving Film From Over 100 Years Ago During the Meiji Period

Film has come a long way since the grainy, black and white images that first appeared on screen. But despite modern tools like technicolor, CGI, and HD cameras, there’s still something special about the earliest films ever made. One of the most important examples is Momijigari (1899), which is widely recognized as the oldest Japanese film to still exist.

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August 12, 2025

Kindergarteners in 1949 Drew Their Dads from Memory, and Life Magazine Captured the Results

In 1949, Doris Morcom, a kindergarten teacher at Sedgwick Elementary School in West Hartford, Connecticut, had a playful idea for the school’s upcoming Father’s Night. She asked her young students to draw their dads entirely from memory. The resulting portraits were both surprisingly accurate and hilariously imperfect, capturing the way each child saw their dad in their mind’s eye.

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