Smithsonian Magazine · April 2019
Gold Rush San Francisco paid a dollar an egg, so men rowed 26 miles to a seabird colony and scaled cliffs in crampons made of rope and rusted nails. It ended in a dawn gunfight in 1863, two dead, and a murre population cut from 400,000 to 60,000.
Read MoreAtlas Obscura · December 2018
Gilmore’s network of Black women raised $125 to $200 a week to fund the carpool for 381 days during the Montgomery bus boycott. Most of them worked in white households and couldn’t be seen organizing, so only Gilmore knew who was cooking. Martin Luther King Jr. financed the restaurant she later opened in her dining room, where he held meetings over fried fish and butter beans. She called him “heifer.” He called her “Tiny.”
Read MoreAtlas Obscura · September 2018
On one day a year, millions of women line the streets of the capital of Kerala, build brick hearths on the pavements, light them together at one signal, and prepare porridge for the goddess. It’s the largest gathering of women on earth, and for a day the city belongs to them.
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