The ship in the burial mound: the Gokstad ship, a splendidly preserved 9th century Viking vessel

Mar 19, 2018 Stefan Andrews One of Norway’s greatest archaeological finds takes us back to the late 19th century when two youngsters reportedly decided to have some fun by starting to dig in what people of the area called “the king’s mound.” A prominent mound indeed, its location was a farm in the Sandefjord municipality, slightly to … Read more

After 150 years the French Hospital closed, it had offered medical care during Los Angeles’s most dangerous, disease-ridden years

Dec 21, 2017 E.L. Hamilton Photo Credit: Clotee Pridgen Allochuku CC By 2.0 When an L.A. hospital ceased operations on November 30, 2017, it closed its doors on a piece of Los Angeles history that stretched back nearly 150 years to the city’s dusty and dangerous birth. Founded to protect French expatriates from smallpox, the French … Read more

Favorite animals of Catherine the Great, cats have inhabited the Hermitage Museum for the last 250 years and some are believed to have healing powers

The Vintage News Dec 23, 2017 Magda Origjanska The State Hermitage Museum in Russia’s Saint Petersburg, one of the most famous art museums in the world, has a staff including numerous specialists in sculpture, history, painting, but also, believe it or not, a special kind of four-legged specialists that work under the Jordan Staircase in the … Read more

As the official witch of Los Angeles County in 1968, Louise Huebner led chants for the first gigantic Spellcast

The Vintage News May 12, 2018 Kristin Thomas Louise Huebner, preparing a turtle soup for her new cookbook. (Photo by Heinz Kluetmeier/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) The 1960s are known as the era that changed the nation. It was a time of revolution–free love, peace, social, and political. Those who weren’t there to witness or experience … Read more

Scotland’s Isle of Skye reveals landmark dinosaur footprints dated to the Middle Jurassic era

The Vinatge News Apr 22, 2018 Stefan Andrews Footprints belonging to two different kinds of dinosaurs, discovered on Scotland’s Isle of Skye, have revealed new details of how the now-extinct creatures evolved and moved during a period of the Jurassic era. Traces of the dinosaurs were found both as part of trackways and as isolated marks, … Read more

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