Old News
60-Year-Old Nimrod is Safe
What a Nimrod In the first half of the 19th century nimrod was commonly used as a synonym for hunter. Linguistic experts disagree on when the word’s connotation changed from […]
Old News
History
November 6, 1920: Hinky Dink and Bathhouse John
In November 1920, soon after the adoption of the 19th amendment, suffragettes excitedly filed into polling stations across the country. Meanwhile, in Chicago, where women had been allowed to vote […]
1930s
October 16, 1929: Before the Wall Street Crash
A few weeks before the Great Crash, newspapers across America published encouraging financial predictions by Yale Economist Irving Fisher. Contrary to the doom and gloom conjecture of his peers, Fisher […]
1910s
October 12, 1918: The Spanish Flu
Between January 1918 and December 1920, the Spanish Flu killed up to 625,000 Americans and more than 50 million people worldwide. If you search your own family tree, chances are, […]