Though the world has tried to forget it, eugenics was a thriving, mainstream science in the years just before the Nazis made it taboo. A child's head is measured to determine his personality and predict his future. Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. 1932.
Ullstein Bild via Getty Images A poster warns that breeding among the unfit creates an unwanted burden on the rest of society. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1926.
Wikimedia Commons German Dr. Bruno Beger measures a Tibetan woman's head to demonstrate the (" Read More...
Baron Friedrich von Steuben: The Revolutionary War Hero Public DomainBaron Friedrich von Steuben was a Prussian military officer who helped George Washington fight the British in the Revolutionary War.
By 1778, the ragtag American Army needed help in its fight for independence against the British Crown. To overcome the Red Coats, General George Washington enlisted the aid of a Prussian military man named Baron Friedrich von Steuben.
But von Steuben wasn’t just a whip-smart military mind who had served under Frederick the Great. Read More...
A Pittsburgh Woman Missing For 31 Years Was Found In A Puerto Rico Nursing Home Twitter/@KDKAPatricia Kopta was last seen in Pittsburgh in 1992.
Patricia Kopta, a street preacher known as “The Sparrow” in Pittsburgh, suddenly vanished in the summer of 1992. For three decades, her family wondered where she had gone — or if she was even alive.
Then, shockingly, 31 years after her disappearance, she was found 1,700 miles away in a nursing home in Puerto Rico. Read More...
