Jan 24, 2017 06:51 PM
Meet the sex-hating vegetarian activist who had the Soylent idea in the 1830s
https://timeline.com/graham-cracker-hist...c6f20ec4b2
EXCERPT: Chances are you’ve eaten a graham cracker, which means you’ve eaten a snack invented by a sex-hating health cult. ... [Sylvester] Graham advocated a diet free of meat, alcohol, stimulants, spices, and chemical additives. He believed clean living came from whole grains, homemade bread, and pure water. He urged people to avoid activities that may compromise the nerves, and was an early theorist that stress led to disease. If it were up to him, everyone would bathe regularly, get plenty of sunlight, and wear loose, comfortable clothes. Graham notoriously preached sexual abstinence and especially despised masturbation, which he claimed led to insanity. [...] When Graham died at the relatively young age of 57, many of his followers dropped out. A diet that was supposed to increase longevity couldn’t even spare its founder. More curious, autopsies found no evidence of major disease. People called him a crank and a quack. [...] The irony, of course, is that to keep the graham cracker popular, Nabisco added sugar and preservatives in 1931, contrary to Sylvester Graham’s entire belief system....
Siegfried and the Dragon Legend Linked to Dinosaur Footprints?
http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2017/01...rints.html
EXCERPT: [...] According to the story, the hero Siegfried tracked the Dragon to his lair, by following a trail of the dragon’s enormous footprints sunk deep in the earth. Notably, conspicuous fossil trackways of two types of massive dinosaurs are found in Germany. In 1941, the German paleontologist H. Kirchner speculated that observations of Triassic dinosaur tracks in sandstone near Siegfriedsburg in the Rhine Valley of western Germany might have been the inspiration for the legend about the dragon Fafnir’s footprints....
When Did Cousin Marriage Become Unacceptable?
http://www.historynet.com/when-did-cousi...ptable.htm
EXCERPT: Marrying a first cousin is still legal throughout Europe; in fact, the only prohibitions against it are in some of the United States. In 1846, Massachusetts Governor George N. Briggs initiated a study of “idiots” with the implication that he believed it to be the result of incest....
Analysis of Woman Vote in 1916 Upsets Theories
http://sundaymagazine.org/2017/01/analys...-theories/
EXCERPT: In 1916, there were 12 states where women could vote for president. [...] it was the stunningly misogynistic writing that truly bears note a century later: “The woman’s vote is a duplicate vote; a miniature, an echo, of man’s vote, possessing no independent political power, and unable to rewards its friends or punish its foes. [...]" Today, the reverse is true. Women voted at higher rates than men [...] And the vote of women was not merely “an echo” of men’s vote: with women preferring Hillary Clinton by 12 points and men preferring Donald Trump by an equal 12 points [...]
https://timeline.com/graham-cracker-hist...c6f20ec4b2
EXCERPT: Chances are you’ve eaten a graham cracker, which means you’ve eaten a snack invented by a sex-hating health cult. ... [Sylvester] Graham advocated a diet free of meat, alcohol, stimulants, spices, and chemical additives. He believed clean living came from whole grains, homemade bread, and pure water. He urged people to avoid activities that may compromise the nerves, and was an early theorist that stress led to disease. If it were up to him, everyone would bathe regularly, get plenty of sunlight, and wear loose, comfortable clothes. Graham notoriously preached sexual abstinence and especially despised masturbation, which he claimed led to insanity. [...] When Graham died at the relatively young age of 57, many of his followers dropped out. A diet that was supposed to increase longevity couldn’t even spare its founder. More curious, autopsies found no evidence of major disease. People called him a crank and a quack. [...] The irony, of course, is that to keep the graham cracker popular, Nabisco added sugar and preservatives in 1931, contrary to Sylvester Graham’s entire belief system....
Siegfried and the Dragon Legend Linked to Dinosaur Footprints?
http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2017/01...rints.html
EXCERPT: [...] According to the story, the hero Siegfried tracked the Dragon to his lair, by following a trail of the dragon’s enormous footprints sunk deep in the earth. Notably, conspicuous fossil trackways of two types of massive dinosaurs are found in Germany. In 1941, the German paleontologist H. Kirchner speculated that observations of Triassic dinosaur tracks in sandstone near Siegfriedsburg in the Rhine Valley of western Germany might have been the inspiration for the legend about the dragon Fafnir’s footprints....
When Did Cousin Marriage Become Unacceptable?
http://www.historynet.com/when-did-cousi...ptable.htm
EXCERPT: Marrying a first cousin is still legal throughout Europe; in fact, the only prohibitions against it are in some of the United States. In 1846, Massachusetts Governor George N. Briggs initiated a study of “idiots” with the implication that he believed it to be the result of incest....
Analysis of Woman Vote in 1916 Upsets Theories
http://sundaymagazine.org/2017/01/analys...-theories/
EXCERPT: In 1916, there were 12 states where women could vote for president. [...] it was the stunningly misogynistic writing that truly bears note a century later: “The woman’s vote is a duplicate vote; a miniature, an echo, of man’s vote, possessing no independent political power, and unable to rewards its friends or punish its foes. [...]" Today, the reverse is true. Women voted at higher rates than men [...] And the vote of women was not merely “an echo” of men’s vote: with women preferring Hillary Clinton by 12 points and men preferring Donald Trump by an equal 12 points [...]