The Appalachian Apple Hunter Who Saved 1,200 Lost Varieties
Tom Brown took "an apple a day" to an entirely new level.
From Nation, For Nation - Pulse of the Nation
A meat-eorologic mystery.
Strange rain has long fascinated humanity, and people have written a lot about it over the years. For example, in June 2009, residents of Japan’s Ishikawa Prefecture woke up to tadpoles, frogs, and fish falling from the heavens. No one knows how the amphibians and marine animals ended up in the sky, but the theory that a waterspout sucked them into the atmosphere before they fell b →
From the buttheaded sea creature to mixing up horns and thumbs, history is full of prehistoric missteps.
Digging up fossils and petrified bone fragments is no simple task. Neither is piecing them back together like an ancient jigsaw puzzle. And as for making sense of the creatur →
From Globe, For Globe - Pulse of the Planet
She carried an olive cane (su mazzolu) or mallet to deal deathblows as needed.
A gaunt figure with a faceless black hood and a shiny scythe. The Grim Reaper fills hearts with terror, a highly recognizable symbol of death. Thanks to pop culture, the Grim Reaper has also become international and universal. But death is a woman for residents of Sardinia, the second largest island owned by Italy.
Her name? The accabadora. Here’s everything you need to know about this menacing figure and the mystery of ho →
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