Given my track record with weird animals (the kakapo, the tree kangaroo), and the fact that I tend to do topics that are very heavy and, quite frankly, fucking depressing, I decided it was time to go back to animals!
Mythical monsters and beasts are the subject of many a folk tale, and typically it is most frequently the common folk at risk of becoming the creature's next delectable snack. In the rare cases a figure of status, power and wealth will star in one of these stories, usually outsmarting the creature, only ...
Gladys still sinking ships. A queen. An icon.
Cheetahs a pretty synonymous with Africa, that or delicious puffed cheese snacks. But what if I told you that cheetahs used to be all over the place, maybe even with a North American relative?
We're taught a lot of stuff in history class, but how much of our own history is really taught to us properly? Nathan recently stumbled upon a post that was definitely not in any highschool history book, Fascism at home. We take a bit of time to go over one bit of solitary history in America.
Cleaned the house, making notes of repairs that need to be done, things that need improvementMade a "cleansing spray" to try and get rid of any bad energy from the previous owners ( a divorced couple and their two teenagers who drew all over their bedrooms and peeled chunks of paint off the walls)Cinnamon (wealth, protection) roses (love, healing,...
Nathan had a bad time over the holidays. Food poisoning aside, the hiccups that came with it had to be the worst part about the whole ordeal. This lead to a bit of dive into why hiccups happen, what people think is happening when you get hiccups and the kind of remedies offered both by the doctor and the internet...
From "In Defense of the Nation: Syphilis, North Carolina's 'Girl Problem' and World War I" by Karin L. Zipf
The holidays come with all sorts of different traditions. Be it from family to family, friends groups, communities, or countries, everyone seems to have their own interesting twists. One thing that caught our attention was that rollerskating became a thing for a while in Venezuela. Nathan digs into this briefly and the assumed inspiration behind...
I have vivid memories of 90s ads for the Polar Plunge in Anchorage when I was a kid. I think my grandpa did one or two, but I always remember looking at people gearing up to jump into icy water and thinking