Everything Is History

“History in the wider sense is all that has happened, not merely all the phenomena of human life, but those of the natural world as well. It includes everything that undergoes change; and as modern science has shown that there is nothing absolutely static, therefore the whole universe, and every part of it, has its history.” -Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition (1911)

On This Day: The Exploding Whale

In November 1970 a dead gray whale washed ashore in Oregon. In an effort to dispose of the rotting carcass, the Oregon Highway Division decided to blow it up, and let nature do the rest. This is a prime example of what happens when humans automatically defer to dynamite for solving life's little problems.