Tomatoes are as ingrained in Italian culture as Potatoes are to Ireland. But just like the mighty potato, it originally came from South America and it took several hundred years to be even accepted as

Is there a Hive app? I looked in the Apple App Store and didn’t see one.

Roman philosopher, Pliny the Elder, suggested workers should cover their mouths with skins of animal bladders to keep from breathing in dust while mining cinnabar, which was highly sought after for it’s

In grade school I asked my teacher why we had to learn history. I mean who cares, it already happened. She pulled out the old, “Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.” Philosophy was way above

In 1774 King Luis XV, died of smallpox. Vaccines hadn’t been invented yet at the time but the process of using dead cells from infected patients to inoculate against smallpox was sweeping Europe at the

If you find yourself visited by the smallpox fairy you’re gonna spend a day or two with body aches, fever, and a wee bit of vomiting. Over the next four days, red spots are going to start breaking out

I got a message asking me to join this Snax thing. I have to make a post to sign up so that what this is. Does anybody have any insight into what I'm blindly signing up for? I want to link my Steem account

Every culture has folk-stories about blood sucking fiends who haunt the night looking for helpless victims. India has “Bhoots”, China has the “Jiang Shi”, there are the Greek “Vrykolakas”, and in America

Have you ever wondered why we dress up in green and get blackout drunk every year to celebrate an Irish saint? As with most of our holidays, the answer involves a little bit of history, a little bit of

For as long as people have lived anywhere that is cold as fuck, they have known the benefits of keeping shit preserved with ice. The frigid temperature and thin air on Mount Everest has been keeping unlucky

After almost a year of sitting around in my underwear getting drunk and researching the sick and twisted history of everything from Christmas to the Bubonic Plague I finally collected enough posts to call

I've finally collected enough of my drunk history blogs that I'm ready to pull the trigger on self-publishing them on Amazon. I'm in desperate need of some help from the Steemit brain-trust. To make it

In the 600’s Muslims started smoking the reefer to get around the Qu ‘ran’s ban on alcohol. The ban is technically on intoxicating substances, but weed was never mentioned specifically, so people started

There is little evidence of weed smoking in North America until the mid-1800’s when the psychoactive strains from India and Africa became popular in Europe. Unfortunately, that includes Indians smoking

Archeologists have found hemp cords in pottery dating back as far as 10,000 years old in Taiwan and China. Astrophysicist Carl Sagan floated the idea in 1977 that Hemp might have been THE first plant to

People started domesticating animals about ten thousand years ago. Unfortunately, it would still be several thousand years until you could drink a milkshake without getting explosive diarrhea. The problem

In 1877 Eadweard Muybridge discovered stop motion photography while photographing a galloping horse. Eadward’s benefactor, Leyland Stanford, had a book written by someone else analyzing Muybridge's work.

Hollywood wasn’t the first hub of movie making in America. Thomas Edison was cranking out movies in Fort Lee, New Jersey while his competition was taking advantage of the extra sunlight in Jacksonville,

The reason why movies and television work is because our bodies are stupid and lazy. When you look at an image it lingers for a spilt second while your eyes and brain communicate to figure out what you

Santa was invented by Coca-Cola to market soda during the holidays. No, they didn’t. They weren’t even the first soda company to whore out Santa’s image. That honor goes to a company called White Rock,