[December 6, 1920] A one-year-old Sicilian girl dies of the Spanish Flu and, instead of burying her, her parents decide to embalm her and place her on display using the most modern-possible technology. Therefore, she is believed to be the best-preserved mummy in history.3yr ⋅ NordyNed ⋅ r/100yearsago
100 Years Ago Today [15 May 1920]: Joan of Arc is canonized as a saint in the Catholic Church4yr ⋅ NordyNed ⋅ r/Catholicism
[May 16, 1920] Szmul Rzeszewski, an 8-year-old boy, makes world headlines when he defeats 20 challengers in Paris, including some of the best chess players on earth, simultaneously.4yr ⋅ NordyNed ⋅ r/100yearsago
[August 16, 1920] After finding the bricklaying business too full of ups and downs, this amazing young girl decided to take a shot at iron girdering for a change. She is Miss 'Collie' Collier, a reporter for the Chicago Herald-Examiner.3yr ⋅ NordyNed ⋅ r/100yearsago
That one girl in your high school who’s obsessed with the Battle of the Somme starter pack5yr ⋅ NordyNed ⋅ r/MemesOfTheGreatWar
[July 26, 1920] The “Pickle Sisters,” a vaudeville group named after the expression for when two women have sex with the same man.4yr ⋅ NordyNed ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 17, 1920] Prohibition begins: Chicago police show off their first day of alcohol seizures.4yr ⋅ NordyNed ⋅ r/100yearsago
Just read some Pushkin, Tolstoy, Turgenev, and Dostoyevsky and...a little burnt out but 19th Century Russian Literature Starterpack3yr ⋅ NordyNed ⋅ r/LiteratureMemes
50 Years Ago Today - Lieutenant Commander Donald D. Sheppard, UBN, of Coronado, California, aims a flaming arrow at a bamboo hut concealing a fortified Viet Cong bunker on the banks of the Bassac River, Vietnam.4yr ⋅ NordyNed ⋅ r/VietnamWar
Don't see much Africa on this sub so here's a nice one: Teli, Mali [1024 x 685]7yr ⋅ NordyNed ⋅ r/VillagePorn
100 Years Ago Today [August 12, 1920] The US Census Bureau releases this new 1920 traffic map of New York State, showing the roads that see the most car travel and the arteries that protrude from them.4yr ⋅ NordyNed ⋅ r/newyork
100 Years Ago Today [June 7, 1920] - Galveston becomes one of the few American cities placed under martial law due to an ongoing longshoremen’s strike4yr ⋅ NordyNed ⋅ r/galveston
