Lyra Radford
Writer
Teddy Roosevelt And The Rough Riders
January 30, 2019
Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders 'Teddy's colts,' at the top of the hill which they capt...
Saloon Girls: The ‘Soiled Doves’ Of The Old West
January 28, 2019
Pioneer at the bar counter of a saloon, Old West, North America, drawing. So...
There's Gold In Them Hills!
January 25, 2019
'Gold Mining in California', 1849 (1871). Artist: Currier and Ives. Scenes of the 1849 Californian Go...
The Tragic Story Of The Donner Party
January 23, 2019
'On The Way To The Summit.' depicting the Donner Party, a group of California-bound American...
Elizabeth Blackwell: America's First Female Doctor
January 21, 2019
Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910), the first woman (in 1849), to receive a medic...
The Invention of the Piano
January 12, 2019
ITALY - DECEMBER 09: Oval spinet, 1695, built by Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655-1731). Italy, 17th centur...
The Creek Indians in Georgia
January 7, 2019
Indian Village on River. Source: (Photo by: Picturenow/UIG via Getty Images) Creek Indians who had...
Traveling Medicine Shows Of The Old West
January 1, 2019
Traveling Medicine Wagon. Source: (pinterest.com) Traveling Medicine Shows were really...
Florence Nightingale - The Lady With The Lamp
December 30, 2018
Illustration of Florence Nightingale at work. Florence Nightingale, known as the La...
The Stone of Scone: The Strange and Twisted Story of a ...
December 28, 2018
The Coronation Chair at Westminster Abbey was built to hold the Stone ...
Long Live the Dollar
December 27, 2018
One hundred dollar bill/image from Wikipedia The dollar has, through the course of history, almost complet...
A Tale of Four Brothers
December 25, 2018
The Newton Brothers (Photo from www.hillcountryexplore.com) Once upon a time in Texas, there lived four...
The Life of Marie Antoinette
December 22, 2018
Print depicting Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) Queen consort of France and Navarre and wife of King Lo...
Battle of the Elves: North Pole Versus Middle Earth
December 16, 2018
Rivendell, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)/image fro...
The Reality of Childbirth in the 1800s
December 13, 2018
Maternity', C1880S.Maternity', c1880s. Artist: Eugene Carriere. (Photo by National Museum ...
Who Invented The Television?
December 11, 2018
Inventor Philo T. Farnsworth displays his latest version of the television (Getty Images) We know ...
Dr. Carlos Finlay, the Man Who Saved the Panama Canal
December 7, 2018
A statue of Carlos Finlay. (Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/UIG via Getty Image...
Lascaux Cave: The Prehistoric Sistine Chapel
December 4, 2018
The cave of Lascaux in the Dordogne, discovered in 1940 and declared a World Heritag...
Up, Up, and Away: The First Hot Air Balloon Launch
December 3, 2018
Ascension in the meadow 1 December 1783), Anonymous, Musee des Arts Decoratifs...
The Tragic Life of Benedict Arnold
November 30, 2018
Benedict Arnold Benedict Arnold’s name has become synonymous with traitor, courtesy of his fa...
Notable Women Of Ancient Greece
November 26, 2018
HYPATIA (c.3.70-415) mathematician and philosopher (NE0PLAT0NIST), murdered by the followers of C...
The Most Powerful Aztec God had the Hummingbird as his ...
November 23, 2018
When you think of fierce, strong, noble animals…ones that would be a...
Fields of Giant Stone Jars: Laos’ Plain of Jars
November 22, 2018
Plain of Jars. (Photo by Chau Doan/LightRocket via Getty Images) In the Xiangk...
The Real Story of the Pied Piper
November 19, 2018
The Pied Piper of Hamelin, actually city tourism employee Michael Boyer, leads local children dr...
The Duchess of Windsor
November 18, 2018
Vogue 1937 (Photo by Cecil Beaton/Condé Nast via Getty Images) Duchess of Windsor (aka Wallis Simpson) si...
Napoleon Bonaparte – A Legend
November 14, 2018
Found in the collection of the Musée de l'Histoire de France. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage ...
