Small box has been around since 3rd century BCE Egypt. Experts believe the disease evolved from an African rodent virus. In 18th century Europe, about 400,000 people died from the disease per year. Experts estimate smallpox to have killed 300 million people in the 20th century, and 500 million from 1877 to 1977 alone. The […]
Month: September 2021
Forgotten: Payless ShoeSource
Growing up as a kid in the 80s and 90s, there was one sentence you dreaded to hear from your classmates. That sentence was, “you got those shoes from Payless!” We knew the shoe store for providing inexpensive shoes for any occasion. Parents loved the store, but children above 7 hated the Payless “experience”. Pay-Less […]
Whose memory is it anyways?
Memory laws are government actions designed to guide their citizens’ interpretation of history. The laws assert a mandatory viewpoint of historical events and forbids any conflicting interpretation of the same historical event. We have criticized memory laws for being an enemy to free speech. We also know memory laws as government censorship. In 1985, West […]
