WTF History

One for Star Wars fans...

http://arcticjournal.com/culture/992/original-hoth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Iceworm

http://gombessa.tripod.com/scienceleadstheway/id9.html

The US military installed a nuclear-powered town under the Greenland glacier called Camp Century, which inspired Hoth in the Empire Strikes Back.

One for Monty Python fans...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynaegirus

In 490 BC Cynegeirus and his brothers Aeschylus and Ameinias fought to defend Athens against Darius's invading Persian army at the Battle of Marathon. According to Plutarch, Cynegeirus was one of the Athenian Generals.[2]

Despite their numerical superiority, the Persians were routed and fled to their ships. The Athenians pursued them, and Cynegeirus in his attempt to hold on the stern of a Persian ship with his bare hands had his hand cut off with an axe and died.[3][4][5] According to another version of his death, recorded by the Roman historian Justin, when Cynaegyrus lost his right hand, he grasped the enemy's vessel with his left, but Persians cut off this hand too. Here the hero, having successively lost both his hands, hangs on by his teeth, and even in his mutilated state fought desperately with the last mentioned weapons, " like a rabid wild beast!"[6]

A Latin translation of Winnie the Pooh was published in 1960. Alexander Lenard, the translator, was a physician, painter, musician and poet but he is most famous for Winnie Ille Pu, the only Latin book to become a New York Times best seller – it remained on the NY Times list for 20 weeks.

How many copies would it sell today I wonder?

In 1932, Australia Declared War On Emus—And Lost.
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/in-1932-australia-declared-war-on-emus-and-lost
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War

While there were no human casualties, only 986 of the roughly 20,000 emus were killed, and 9,860 bullets had been used up

Nice find, thanks.

Shows you what a truly magnificent Dr.Dolittle character Rod Hull was.

Only a real man could control a bird that dodges bullets.

No one knows who invented the fire hydrant, because its patent was burned in a fire.

According to one, Abingdon intended to call the young colt "Potato" and instructed the stable boy to write the name on a feed bin. The stable boy facetiously spelled the name as "Potoooooooo" (Pot followed by 8 "o"s), which so amused Abingdon that he adopted the spelling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potoooooooo

DEAD AT 17: ‘THE FATAL CONSEQUENCES OF MASTURBATION’—A HANDY GUIDE FROM 1830


http://dangerousminds.net/comments/dead_at_17_the_fatal_consequences_of_masturbation--a_handy_guide_from_1830

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/If-the-Nazis-had-eaten-more-bananas-would-they-have-won-World-War-2-by-throwing-down-the-skins-and-slipping-up-the-1-5-million-Red-Army-soldiers-as-they-descended-on-Berlin?share=bc077581&srid=u4brB

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Mr. Happy wrote:DEAD AT 17: ‘THE FATAL CONSEQUENCES OF MASTURBATION’—A HANDY GUIDE FROM 1830


http://dangerousminds.net/comments/dead_at_17_the_fatal_consequences_of_masturbation--a_handy_guide_from_1830

I should have been dead decades ago!

“Freud was full of horseshit!” the therapist Albert Ellis, arguably the progenitor of CBT, liked to say. It’s hard to deny he had a point. One big part of the problem for psychoanalysis has been the evidence that its founder was something of a charlatan, prone to distorting his findings, or worse. (In one especially eye-popping case, which only came to light in the 1990s, Freud told a patient, the American psychiatrist Horace Frink, that his misery stemmed from an inability to recognise that he was homosexual – and hinted that the solution lay in making a large financial contribution to Freud’s work.)

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jan/07/therapy-wars-revenge-of-freud-cognitive-behavioural-therapy

The Link to that Research is here:
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/06/science/as-a-therapist-freud-fell-short-scholars-find.html?pagewanted=all

I always knew that Freud's theories were unscientific and often ridiculous but that's terrible!