By the middle of the 20th century, a confluence of factors–a rise in supermarkets and pre-packaged food, an advertising boom, a renewed fascination with classical European cooking, extreme growth in the middle class, among others–led to a truly singular culinary milieu. Even today, and even if you didn’t live through it the first time, chances are you can recognize some 1950s and 1960s food that America has now forgotten. While the likes of prune whip, salmon mousse, tuna noodle casserole, fish sticks, and yam ice cream deserve to be left on the culinary scrapheap of history, there are plenty of popular mid-century American dishes that merit a resurgence today.

Despite being one of the richest countries in the world, England was also home to some of the most destitute neighborhoods, with 35 percent of Londoners living in poverty at the end of the 19th century.When social reformer Henry Mayhew visited the slums of Victorian London, he recoiled. “The water of the huge ditch in front of the houses is covered with a scum… and prismatic with grease,” Mayhew wrote. “Along the banks are heaps of indescribable filth… the air has literally the smell of a graveyard.

The Assassination Of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Was A Farce Wikimedia CommonsFranz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie leave the Sarajevo Guildhall on the day of the assassination. While deep-seated forces like unbridled nationalism may have been the stronger factors that caused World War I, the spark that ignited the unimaginably violent and destructive conflict was the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand. On June 28, 1914, six Serbian assassins set out to kill Ferdinand in Sarajevo.

Dangerous Clacker Toys That Were Literally Explosive Flickr/marianne muegenburg cothernClackers on display in a vintage toy store. In the late 1960s, the advent of helicopter parenting was decades away, and kids happily enjoyed toys that had yet to be deemed too dangerous. Among them were Clackers — inspired by rural Argentinian hunting tools. This dangerous toy was essentially comprised of two small but heavy balls that were tied to a string.

Source: NY Post Humans are designed to compartmentalize objects, ideas, and experiences. It’s how we survive. Our early ancestors’ ability to instantaneously decide a whether a situation was safe or dangerous was imperative if they wanted to keep their weak, hairless little bodies alive long enough to pass along their genes. As societies developed, understanding our place within that structure, as well as everyone else’s, became just as important. We wanted to look at somebody and immediately know certain things about them (namely, were they trying to have sex with us, and were we trying to have sex with them).

For centuries, these stones have warned people that hard times are on the horizon and their reappearance now might be cause for alarm.Petr David Josek/AP PhotoOne of the “hunger stones” seen in Děčín, Czech Republic on Thursday August 23, 2018. The drought which has been ravaging Europe all summer has uncovered several startling artifacts, not the least of which are these ominous carvings in the Czech Republic, known as “hunger stones.

Archaeologists excavating Pompeii uncovered the pizza and wine fresco among the half-destroyed wall of an ancient home and bakery.Pompeii Archeological ParkThe fresco depicting an ancient Roman version of pizza and other delectables. Archaeologists surveying the ruins of an ancient home in Pompeii may have stumbled across a fresco depicting an early Roman “pizza.” The team found the fresco while performing excavations in Pompeii, an ancient Roman city destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.

When Detroit sought to demolish Rosa Parks' 1950s home, one artist carefully disassembled it and moved it all the way to Berlin.Sean Gallup/Getty ImagesAmerican artist Ryan Mendoza poses for a photo next to the former house of civil rights activist Rosa Parks on Mendoza’s property on April 6, 2017 in Berlin, Germany. Mendoza bought the house, which was slated for demolition in Detroit, took it apart, shipped it to Germany, and put it back together again on the property next to his studio.

Black henbane can be used medicinally or to cause visual hallucinations, and the bone container is the first evidence that ancient people deliberately collected and used the plant.Antiquity JournalAncient physicians noted that black henbane could be used as a sedative and analgesic. Archaeologists have long found evidence of the plant black henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) at ancient sites. The plant, a weed, can be used medicinally or to cause visual hallucinations.

Carlos Hathcock had 93 confirmed kills of enemy personnel during the Vietnam War, but he estimated the actual number to be between 300 and 400.Snipers are controversial figures and the Vietnam War is a controversial war. This makes Carlos Hathcock, the most extraordinary sniper in the Vietnam War, a legendary figure in his own right. He is quoted as saying he liked the hunt, but not the killing. “A person would have to be crazy to enjoy killing another human being.