@pgfh.bsky.socialAn Olympic marathon where one runner took a car, another reportedly stopped for a nap, and the winner was given poison? 🏃🏅
It actually happened at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics!
#ForgottenHistory #OlympicHistory #HistoryTok #WeirdHistory #ProfessorG
@econopass.comIreland invented Halloween. The Church spent a thousand years trying to kill it. America sold it back.
#Halloween #Samhain #Ireland #CelticHistory #HalloweenHistory #ForgottenHistory #Bluesky #Flipboard
@fediboard-culture.bsky.socialeconopass.com · Simon De Lafronde
Ireland invented Halloween. The Church spent a thousand years trying to kill it. America sold it back.
#halloween #samhain #ireland #celtichistory #halloweenhistory #forgottenhistory #amazing #culture
@kristijankop.bsky.socialThe biggest driver of American casual dress was a war. #AskHistorians #historyfacts #forgottenhistory #historyexplained
@kristijankop.bsky.socialWhy Roman statues have bare heads instead of hats #AskHistorians #historyfacts #forgottenhistory #historyexplained
@kkokokopress.bsky.socialWWII Asia’s FORGOTTEN DEFENDERS ⚔️ | 知られざるアジアの精鋭部隊 #Shorts
#WWII #MilitaryHistory #WW2History #ForgottenHistory #AsianHistory #CoastalDefense #SpecialForces #HistoryShorts #第二次世界大戦 #戦史 #軍事史 #アジア戦線 #要塞砲 #特殊部隊 #Shorts
@fediboard-culture.bsky.socialeconopass.com · Simon De Lafronde
Darwin had the theory for 20 years and told nobody. Then a letter arrived from a stranger with the exact same idea. He published within weeks.
#darwin #alfredrusselwallace #evolutionhistory #forgottenhistory #untoldhistory #culture
@pgfh.bsky.socialWeekie Wachee mermaids #weekiewachee #forgottenhistory
@econopass.comMarco Polo wrote 600 pages about China and never mentioned tea, chopsticks, or the Great Wall. A historian made the case he never got further than Persia.
#MarcoPolo #ForgottenHistory #SilkRoad #HistoryMyths #MedievalHistory #Bluesky #Flipboard
@fediboard-culture.bsky.socialeconopass.com · Marco Bellinari
Marco Polo wrote 600 pages about China and never mentioned tea, chopsticks, or the Great Wall. A historian made the case he never got further than Persia.
#marcopolo #forgottenhistory #silkroad #historymyths #medievalhistory #culture
@econopass.comWilliam Tell shot an apple off his son's head. Except no Swiss document from his lifetime mentions his name. The story may be completely invented.
#WilliamTell #SwissHistory #ForgottenHistory #HistoryMyths #GuillameTell #Bluesky #Flipboard
@fediboard-mix.bsky.socialeconopass.com · Marco Bellinari
William Tell shot an apple off his son's head. Except no Swiss document from his lifetime mentions his name. The story may be completely invented.
#williamtell #swisshistory #forgottenhistory #historymyths #guillametell #trending
@econopass.com🟢 He kept fighting for 29 years because no one told him the war was over. Would you have believed it if someone finally did? Tell me below. #StrangerThanFiction #WWII #HirooOnoda #TrueStory #ForgottenHistory
@econopass.comA Japanese soldier kept fighting World War II in the Philippine jungle until 1974. Not because he was lost. Because nobody told him the war was over. #StrangerThanFiction #WWII #HirooOnoda #TrueStory #ForgottenHistory
@fediboard-mix.bsky.socialeconopass.com · Marco Bellinari
A Japanese soldier kept fighting World War II in the Philippine jungle until 1974. Not because he was lost. Because nobody told him the war was over.
#strangerthanfiction #wwii #hirooonoda #truestory #forgottenhistory #bluesky #flipboard
@econopass.comEveryone knows the Titanic. Almost nobody knows the Britannic. She was bigger, she was better built, she was ready for everything the Titanic was not...
https://econopass.com/titanic-sister-ship-britannic-sank-forgotten/
#ForgottenHistory #Titanic #Britannic #HistoryMyths #UntoldHistory #trending
@fediboard-culture.bsky.socialeconopass.com · Marco Bellinari
Everyone knows the Titanic. Almost nobody knows the Britannic. She was bigger, she was better built, she was ready for everything the Titanic was not. She also sank. A…
#forgottenhistory #titanic #britannic #historymyths #untoldhistory #culture #bluesky #flipboard
@pgfh.bsky.socialLet’s visit Circus World. #forgottenhistory #circusworld #themeparkhistory #professorg
@econopass.comThe apple story is clean, memorable, and almost entirely wrong. Newton did not have a sudden revelation in an orchard. What he had was a twenty-year argument with himself, a dispute with a colleague, and a deadline he almost… #Newton #Gravity #ScienceHistory #HistoryMyths #ForgottenHistory #Bluesky
@fediboard-science.bsky.socialeconopass.com · Marco Bellinari
The apple story is clean, memorable, and almost entirely wrong. Newton did not have a sudden revelation in an orchard. What he had was a twenty-year argument with himself, a dispute with a colleague…
#newton #gravity #sciencehistory #historymyths #forgottenhistory