The Pleiades are a star cluster visible from October to March, and to April in Australia. There are several ancient Aboriginal stories about the Pleiades, which are referred to as the seven sisters. A common thread among...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/02/18/A-Story-That-Could-Be-100000-Years-Old/A mutineer who left Hernan Cortez’ expedition sailed up the west coast of Mexico observed the Gulf of California in 1533 and assumed that the place he called California was a large island. He compared it to a ficti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/02/18/The-Cartographic-Persistence-of-California-as-an-Island/Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam was quite an athlete of sorts back in the day. He was famous for climbing the light rigging at concerts. You can see a long compilation of these stunts here. The most amazing was at a Rock the V...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/02/18/Why-Concerts-Use-Wireless-Microphones/Why do we exercise? In the West, a cultural emphasis on fitness derives from a desire for military preparedness.Strabo notes that the Romans had a field dedicated to Mars, the god of war, outside of the city where men en...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/02/18/Two-College-Athletes-Granted-Cornhole-Scholarships/The Greco-Roman historian Plutarch, in his Life of Julius Caesar, describes an incident in which the future ruler of Rome was reading a biography of Alexander the Great when he burst into tears. His companions a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/02/18/Man-Secures-Guinness-World-Record-by-Sticking-68-Matches-up-His-Nose/Little is known about the mysterious and frozen lands of the Caledonians. Historically speaking, we have few sources to work with. The First Century AD writer Tacitus, in his biography of the Roman general Gnaeus Julius...
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