During a siege, desperation drove people to disinter skeletons from cemeteries.
Source: In 1590, Starving Parisians Ground Human Bones Into Bread – Gastro Obscura
Steel and zinc industries provided Donora residents with work, but also robbed them of their health, and for some, their lives
Researchers look at countries that have prohibited corporal punishment for kids and their rate of youth violence.
The Norwegian resistance fighter commanded a daring World War II mission to blow up a heavy-water plant and help sabotage Hitler’s nuclear program.
Translating is “like acting,” said Ms. Bell, the rare practitioner who became a well-known name in her own right.
