How chicken wings changed the world

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Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. SUBSCRIBE to TIME Magazine January 31, 2019 We're changing our email address. To ensure delivery of future newsletters, please add time@newsletters.time.com to your address book. By Lily Rothman With the Super Bowl coming up, it's chicken wing time: Americans will eat more than a billion of them this weekend. But, as food historian Emelyn Rude—an expert on chicken—wrote for TIME this week, the love of that particular part of the bird is a relatively recent phenomenon. And as it turns out, increasing American appetites for Buffalo wings had serious consequences, affecting everything from the auto industry to post-Soviet trade agreements. Click here to read more about the surprisingly significant history of wings. Here's more of the history that made news this week: HISTORY ON TIME.COM What to Know About the 'Father of Black History' Many of the historians of the 19th century and early 20th century left African Americans out. Carter G. Woodson set out to change that The Surprisingly Mysterious Story of the World’s First Filmmaker On Sept. 16, 1890, just before he was due to demonstrate his films in public for the first time, he boarded the Dijon to Paris train and was never seen again The Story Behind the Last Live Beatles Performance They had stopped touring in 1966, but on Jan. 30, 1969, they made history atop the Apple Corps office building in London's garment district Roger Stone's Long History Connects Trump and Nixon Roger Stone, who was arrested on charges linked to the Mueller investigation, has long had ties to Donald Trump's political ambitions. But before that, he was embedded in the dirtier side of the Nixon campaign How a Secret Jewish Group Documented Nazi Atrocities A secret group in the Warsaw Ghetto collected materials to help future historians tell the story of the war from the Jewish point of view FROM THE TIME VAULT Today in 1977: Brrr! “From the Dakotas and Minnesota, across the icy Great Lakes of the Middle West and down the Eastern seaboard to shivering Florida, the winter of 1976-77 is already one of the coldest since the U.S. began keeping weather statistics—and the worst may be yet to come. If February roars like January, this winter could be the coldest ever recorded for much of the U.S.—the great winter that millions of Americans will be telling their grandchildren about decades from now.” (Jan. 31, 1977) Read the full story Today in 1955: Grace Kelly “Almost every morning, a slim figure in a polo coat, leading a small black poodle on a leash, emerges from one of Manhattan's cliff houses on East 66th Street. The doorman gives her a cheery 'Good Morning, Miss Kelly.' But outside, no head turns. For in her low-heeled shoes and horn-rimmed spectacles, Actress Grace Kelly is all but indistinguishable from any other well-scrubbed young woman of the station-wagon set, armored in good manners, a cool expression, and the secure knowledge that whatever happens, Daddy can pay. A few blocks away, Grace Kelly's name is emblazoned on two first-run Broadway houses, and the same face, without spectacles, makes husbands sigh and wives think enviously that they might look that way too, if only they could afford a really good hairdo.” (Jan. 31, 1955) Read the full story Today in 1972: Flip Wilson “To those who say that he should do more to advance the ‘cause,’ Flip has a ready reply: ‘I have feelings about these things, but I'm selling professional entertainment. Politics is for politicians. Each man has his own style; mine is that “the funny” has no color. I do these characters because they're what I know. But people are just people to me. The way I see it, I don't have to think black—or not think black. I just have to entertain. I'm just a comic.’ The ratings bear witness to Wilson's success at comedy and to his appeal to whites as well as blacks. In their second season on NBC—which, Flip jokes, now really is ‘the full-color network’—Flip, Geraldine and his other characters have become regular Thursday-night fare for an estimated 40 million Americans.” (Jan. 31, 1972) Read the full story HIGHLIGHTS FROM AROUND THE WEB A Hundred Times To mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jackie Robinson, the New York Times has pulled together 100 photos of the baseball legend, along with commentary on his legacy. On Ice Jonathan Amos at the BBC reports on a fascinating new study, which indicates that European colonization of the Americas so disrupted global population and agricultural patterns that it changed the climate of the planet. Riding the Rails Slate’s Matthew Dessem is making great use of works from 1923 having entered the public domain this year, by reprinting this interview with a “girl hobo.” Playing the Fool The role of a medieval or Tudor-period court jester was more complicated than you may think, explains Karen Matiland for History Extra. Color Commentary The innovation of color television played a surprisingly large significant role in the Cold War world, and Susan Murray explains why for Smithsonian. To Unsubscribe Unsubscribe here if you do not want to receive this newsletter. Update Email Click here to update your email address. Privacy Policy Please read our Privacy Policy. TIME may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Offers may be subject to change without notice. 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