2020 - History Hustle

With a Sword and a Baby Bump, Caterina Sforza Took on Rome and the Pope

Leslie AddoDecember 25, 2020December 29, 2020

[caption id="attachment_6742" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Caterina Sforza[/caption] If you and I were sitting in a bar (back when life wasn’t weird) and I asked you to describe any woman from the...

Funny Medieval Origins

Meet the 18th-Century Real-Life ‘Gnomes’ Paid to Sit in a Garden, Dispensing Wisdom

Joe GillardNovember 10, 2020May 12, 2021

[caption id="attachment_6571" align="aligncenter" width="1280"] Representation of a garden hermit in Germany in the late 18th century[/caption] It turns out that the garden gnome that we now use to ornament our...

Amazing Women

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Pocahontas

Shaina LucasNovember 10, 2020December 22, 2020

Unfortunately for the Millennial generation, we grew up on Disney’s version of Pocahontas and her infatuation with John Smith. Was it true? What really was Pocahontas’s life like? Well, you...

Amazing Women

10 Mind-Blowing Facts about Women’s History

Joe GillardNovember 10, 2020December 22, 2020

1. Alice Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt’s daughter, the firecracker 2. Agnes Sorel, the favorite and the chief mistress of King Charles VII of France 3. Queen Mary I, the first woman...

Amazing Women

Jane Addams, The First Woman to Win the Nobel Peace Prize

Shaina LucasNovember 10, 2020December 22, 2020

Normally when people hear the name Addams they think of the Addams Family or our second First Family of the United States. Jane Addams is neither, but she certainly made...

Facts

The History of Cats in Ancient Egypt

Megan HamiltonNovember 10, 2020December 17, 2020

[caption id="attachment_6590" align="aligncenter" width="714"] modern-day Egyptian Mau[/caption] The pampered house cats we love so much share a long history with us, one that flowered in Ancient Egypt some 10,000 years...

Year: 2020

With a Sword and a Baby Bump, Caterina Sforza Took on Rome and the Pope

Meet the 18th-Century Real-Life ‘Gnomes’ Paid to Sit in a Garden, Dispensing Wisdom

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Pocahontas

10 Mind-Blowing Facts about Women’s History

Jane Addams, The First Woman to Win the Nobel Peace Prize

The History of Cats in Ancient Egypt

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