Female worker in a bullet production assembly line. Location unspecified. 1942.Bettmann/Getty Images Women workers assemble lines of transparent noses for deadly A-20 attack bombers. location unspecified. 1942.Library of Congress A worker places a metal bar into a large electric phosphate smelting furnace used to make elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama. 1942.Alfred T. Palmer/Library of Congress A woman operates a hand drill while working on a Vengeance dive bomber at a factory in Vultee-Nashville, Tennessee. Read More...
If you think this year is bad, this research by Harvard archeologist Michael McCormick shows that things could be much worse on Earth.Pixabay
If you feel like now is the worst time in history to be alive, scientists are here to tell you that times have actually been worse.
Harvard University archaeologist and medieval historian Michael McCormick will tell you that 536 A.D. was the worst year in history to be alive. Read More...
Almost 500 years after the society crumbled, researchers have finally discovered what happened to the Aztecs.The GuardianAn Aztec pyramid in Mexico.
In 1545, nearly five centuries ago, the Aztec nation crumbled. People began coming down with high fevers and headaches. Shortly after, they began bleeding from the eyes, mouth, and nose. Then, they died.
By 1550, 15 million people, 80 percent of the Aztec population, had been wiped out. For centuries, scientists have been struggling to understand just how such a deadly event could transpire, and how it could have arrived in Mexico. Read More...
