Jennifer Colton • Damn Interesting https://www.damninteresting.com/author/unionponi/ Fascinating true stories from science, history, and psychology since 2005 Mon, 20 Feb 2023 06:13:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 The Lonely Tower https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-lonely-tower/ https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-lonely-tower/#respond Fri, 17 Mar 2017 14:09:16 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?post_type=nugget&p=7156 The Lonely Tower:

A single apartment sits at the top of an ancient tower in the middle of the Jordanian desert. The tower at Um er-Rasas stands 46-feet-tall with no door, no stairs, and no way to ever leave. The square base of the tower, one mile north of the Byzantine city of Kastron Mefa’a is completely solid […]

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Merriam-Webster may be one of the most respected names in the dictionary business, but the giant isn’t always perfect. In 1934, the company released an edition of Webster’s New International Dictionary including the word “dord,” which was defined as a synonym for “density.” But no such term actually existed within the physics and chemistry lexicon. […]

]]> https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/internationally-adored/feed/ 0 The Petticoat Rebellion of 1916 https://www.damninteresting.com/the-petticoat-rebellion-of-1916/ https://www.damninteresting.com/the-petticoat-rebellion-of-1916/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2015 13:25:50 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?post_type=upcoming&p=8633 The Petticoat Rebellion of 1916:

On a December morning in 1916, the polls opened in the small town of Umatilla, Oregon, for a municipal election. As the day stretched on, the town’s men drifted in and out, casting a ballot here or there. By midday, the men started to wonder what had happened to the women. For months, the women […]

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