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A blog dedicated to all of the educational things to be found in the Nancy Drew PC games.

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Subject: The Dust Bowl Appeared In: Trail of the Twister

Since we're in the grip of summer, let's talk dust and sand storms.

Jackrabbits and grasshoppers swarmed onto the plains during this time, eating whatever crops they could find.  It got so bad that they had to call in the National Guard to crush the grasshoppers with tractors. Not such a quick ending for the jackrabbits, however. (tw: animal abuse) They were routinely rounded up and beaten to death. This happened so often the practice earned itself a nickname: 'rabbit drives'.

In an act that Tesla would approve of, the barbed wire fences generated incredible amounts of electricity between themselves and the dust.  It wasn't unheard of for just the act of shaking hands to generate a spark strong enough to shoot each participant off their feet. Also blue fire was involved.

Europe had the Black Plague, and the American plains had the Brown Plague. This referred to pneumonia caused by the dust, which killed thousands.

Food was so scarce that people ate tumbleweeds. One town even gave the food its own week. (Russian Thistle Week, if you were wondering.)

Quite a few people in these dry hellscapes were fans of Bonnie and Clyde, who were active during this time. They felt quite vindicated watching the duo screw over the banks that had screwed over them.

You want to know where we get the term hobo? Yup, from the Dust Bowl. The term was used long before then, but during this era over two million people rode the trains to find work and food, firmly branding the name into public consciousness.

Students were often kept overnight in school if the dust storms proved too dangerous to traverse.

The storms weren't limited to the plains. Dust traveled all the way to the Atlantic Ocean, over major cities like Boston and New York.

Wind speeds could blow up to 100 mph. This is the equivalent of a Category 2 hurricane.

Two and a half million people fled the Dust Bowl, making it the largest migration in American history.

Further Reading:

America's Exodus: The 1930s and the Dust Bowl

Dust Bowl Facts

12 Things You Might Not Know About the Dust Bowl

10 things You May Not Know About the Dust Bowl

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Subject: Carousels Appeared In: The Haunted Carousel

It would be a poor game indeed to not talk about the thing that's in the title.  Luckily for us, HER Interactive doesn't make poor games, so we got a nice chunk of information about carousels throughout the game. This isn't even everything you can read about it, but the band organ will get its own post some other day.

Besides carousel and merry-go-round, they're also called: roundabouts and galopers (England), manèges de chevaux de bois (France), karussell (Germany), whirligigs, flying horses, and hobby horses (America).

During the the "golden age" of carousels (1895-1920), anywhere from 2,000 - 6,000 carousels were built. Roughly 200 have made it to present day.

The oldest one in America is located in Massachusetts, called the Flying Horses.

To get people on the rides, customers were told merry-go-rounds were doctor recommended as a good way to circulate the blood.

The horses on the outside of the ride go faster than the others. This is because they have to cover more distance.

The word carousel is derived from carosello. The name is Italian ("little war"). The definition is Middle Eastern, referring to a game played by tossing easily breakable balls between two riders. When the ball hit a player, it broke open and covered them in perfume.

If you've ever been to Disneyland you know they have an impressive carousel named King Arthur. It's right in the center of the park, a nod to Walt Disney getting the idea from watching his children ride one in the park. Every horse on the carousel is over a century old, and cast members spend at least six hours polishing the ride per night.

Further Reading

Carousel Facts (two links; one is very short)

Carousel Fun Facts

A little about carousel history and terms

Fun Facts of Disneyland's King Arthur Carrousel

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Subject: The Brothers Grimm Appeared In: The Captive Curse

Much like other Nancy Drew games featuring the supernatural, CAP plays around with the distortion of legend and the way human psychology can bring many of these monsters alive.  It's almost impossible to talk folklore, especially in Germany, without at least mentioning the Brothers Grimm. Did you know that...

The censorship of their stories wasn't entirely from public pressure. The brothers were still devout Christians traveling middle class circles, and they shaped the tales to appeal to that demographic even before children became a consideration. Christian references were added, and gender roles were emphasized more than they'd been in the originals. Violence was expanded upon, while sex was removed. Sound familiar?

For example, in the earlier French telling of Cinderella, our heroine makes peace with her abusive family and helps them marry into comfortable status. The whole cutting off parts of their feet bit? All Grimm.

The Nazis tried to use Grimm fairy tales as propaganda, since the whole idea behind collecting these fables was to preserve German folklore that was originally passed mouth to mouth. They used the grittier first edition, because Nazis.

The Göttingen Seven were seven professors at the eponymous university who protested against the annulment of Germany's liberal constitution in 1837. The Grimm brothers lost their jobs along with the rest, and Jacob Grimm was actually deported.

Jacob Grimm was also elected to parliament. He wasn't very active as a politician, but he did advocate for human rights for all of Germany.

The brothers continued living together even after Wilhelm got married. (Imagine that honeymoon...)

They had royal connections. In a kind of six degrees of separation deal, the brothers' maternal aunt was the first lady-in-waiting of the prince of Hesse. She helped the family out financially after Daddy Grimm died. (His name was Philipp, but that's not as cool to write.)

Further Reading

Brothers Grimm on Wikipedia

The True Story of the Real Brothers Grimm

Grimm Brothers - Biography and Facts

Grimms Fairy Tales - 20 Things You Didn't Know

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Subject: The guillotine Appeared In: Treasure in the Royal Tower

The guillotine itself doesn't play a role in the game like Marie Antoinette does, but it has an interesting history nonetheless. I also have a weakness for old torture/execution devices, so let's talk head chopping!

The blade itself weighed 88 pounds. The entire machine came clocked in at 1,278 pounds.

As mentioned above, we don't know who exactly invented the guillotine. This is largely due to the fact that the guillotine was not the first of its kind. The British were using this same method over five hundred years earlier, and several other countries had their own versions. What made the guillotine special was the amount of use it was put to.

One of the people who built the first guillotine was actually a harpsichord maker from Germany named Tobias Schmidt.

The crowds that gathered for these executions weren't just because of morbid fascination. The French government required there to be a crowd in order for the criminal to be made an example out of. The crowd would also rate the executioner on his performance. If they decided the execution was anything but instant and painless, the executioner could be fined or even thrown in jail!

The guillotine didn't lose its appeal after the revolution. Public beheading occurred in France until 1939. The machine continued to be used in private for another 38 years.

At its most popular, as many as 3,000 people lost their heads to the machine per month. The official death toll is unknown; the estimates range from 17,000 to 40,000. Recent evidence suggests that at least 66% of these people were innocent.

Further Reading:

Off With Their Heads - History of the Guillotine

Its entry in encyclopedia.com

Symbol of the Revolution

Top 10 Facts About the Guillotine

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Subject: Curses Appeared In: Tomb of the Lost Queen

Whether you believe in curses or not, I think we can all agree that they make for some interesting reading. And there's plenty of them to go around, like...

Curse of Tippecanoe: From William Harrison to John F. Kennedy, every president who was elected in a year ending in zero died in office.  Some attribute this phenomena to a curse placed upon Harrison after he pulled some highly shady tactics against Native Americans in 1809.  Tecumseh, leader of the Shawnee natives, wasn't having any of this, and gathered enough tribes together to fight Harrison's forces for the next few years.  In 1811, Harrison scored a major victory at the Battle of Tippecanoe, which ultimately earned him a similar nickname. Tecumseh's brother supposedly cursed Harrison after this battle, dooming him and all those elected in years ending in Harrison's number to die before their terms ended.  And every president did, until Reagan and George W. Bush both survived assassination attempts on their lives and were able to walk away from the White House.

Busby's Stoop Chair: In 1702 Thomas Busby married Elizabeth Auty.  Her father strongly opposed the marriage, and soon after the union took place Busby found his father-in-law waiting for him in his home.  While sitting in Busby's favorite chair Daniel Auty demanded that his daughter leave Busby.  Busby didn't take too kindly to that, and later strangled Daniel in his sleep.  Just before he was executed Busby put a curse on his chair, saying that all who sat in it would die just as Daniel Auty.  From that moment until 1972, 63 people sat in Busby's chair. 63 people died.  The curse only ended when the chair was suspended above ground in the Thirsk Museum.

Little Bastard: This was the name of James Dean's Porsche, the same one he died in.  When George Borris bought the car it immediately fell on one of his mechanics, breaking both of his legs.  Later two men - Troy McHenry and William Eschrid - decided it would be a great idea to race each other in cars with parts of Little Bastard inside.  McHenry died, and Eschrid's car flipped over.  Bad luck continued to follow the car until it disappeared in 1960. No one knows what happened to it.

Further Reading:

Curses Category on Wikipedia

The 6 Most Strangely Convincing Real-Life Curses

Top 10 Bizarre Curses

A List of Cursed Objects

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Subject: Investigating Arson Appeared In: Alibi in Ashes

5% of all home fires are incendiary, usually in single-family homes.

The common time frame for these fires is between three p.m. and midnight.

27,100 intentional fires were investigated in 2010.

The bedroom is the most common point of origin.

The majority of arsonists will stick around to watch the fire they set. Many of them have admitted that getting caught never crossed their mind, due to either apathy or arrogance.

Most serial arsonists are white males under the age of 30. Staples of their lives include barely a high school education, difficulty with interpersonal relationships, and previous criminal and/or psychological histories.

Arson, murder, and rape are tied closely together. If you have a serial offender in one, the chances are very high that that same person has a history of one or both of the other two.

Arson dogs are often pulled from other training programs, and go through at least three months of training. Labradors are popular choices.

Further Reading:

2013 Arson Awareness Week: Residential Arson Facts

Arson Facts - CBS News

The Relationship Between Sexual Predation and Four Specific Deviant Behaviors (Deviant Fire Setting, Aberrant Masturbation, Nocturnal Enuresis, and Animal Cruelty)

Arson Dog Facts

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Subject: Zodiac Astronomy/Astrology Appeared In: The Haunting of Castle Malloy

Superstition, history, and the blurred lines between the two are the main themes of the game. Astrology makes another appearance in Curse of Blackmoor Manor, but that is another post entirely. Until then, here are some interesting tidbits about the Zodiac, both the astrological belief and the astronomical importance.

Hitler used astrology to plan his attacks. He was told in 1923 that his birth date predicted great power, and later credited an astrological prediction with thwarting an assassination attempt in 1939. When the Allies found out, they spread bogus horoscopes saying that Taurus, Hitler's sign, was incredibly unlucky. (Along with exploiting Hitler's beliefs to predict his battle plans, of course.)

Astronomers mainly use the Zodiac as a convenient chart of the locations and paths of planets, moons, suns, etc.

There are two schools of astrology: Western and Vedic. Western astrology is the type you find in grocery store horoscopes. Vedic, which is Hindu in origin, uses sidereal Zodiac signs. It's much more modern than the mystic Western charts, which have not been updated in over 2,000 years. The difference in position between the two Zodiacs is 23 degrees - that's at least an entire star sign.

A Zodiacal cloud are groups of dust floating between the planets. Zodiacal light is sunlight scattered by these dust particles. It can be seen just before dawn or twilight, but it's incredibly faint so anything less than a clear sky will obscure it.

The thirteenth sign, Ophiuchus, is completely astronomical.  In fact, there is absolutely no connection between the boarders of the astrological Zodiac and the astronomical Zodiac. Astronomy's only concern in this field is making things efficient for scientists.

The name Zodiac is taken from the Greek zōion, which means 'animal'.

Further Reading:

Astrology vs Astronomy

Strange Role of Astrology in the Second World War

Everything You Need to Know: Zodiacal Light or False Dusk (And False Dawn.)

Hindu Astrology

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I am 100% IN LOVE with your theme. I tried finding it when I clicked on the "designed by" link but I couldn't :( Do you have a direct link to it?

Fear not, friend! The theme is right here. The link in the sidebar seems to direct you to the designer's personal Tumblr. To see their other designs, go here.

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Subject: Nikola Tesla Appeared In: The Deadly Device

Tesla, Tesla, Tesla. Like Marie Antoinette and Harry Houdini, Tesla dominates his game, his life and work crucial to discovering who is behind Niko's death. Hearing Frank and Joe fanboy over him was adorable. The book here provides a good overview, but since you can never get enough Tesla, here's a few more fun tidbits.

He spoke eight languages: Latin, Italian, French, Czech, German, English, Serbo-Croatian, and Hungarian.

He was born during a lightning storm.

July 10th is Nikola Tesla Day.

His mother was an inventor, too, creating household appliances for fun whenever she had the time. His father was a priest.

There is a sign labeled Nikola Tesla Corner near Tesla's old laboratory. If you're in New York, head for the 40th Street-6th Avenue intersection.

He holds the record for the largest man-made lightning bolt at 130 feet. It was so powerful that it could be seen and heard over 20 miles away, and caused his lab to glow blue.

He claimed to only sleep two or three hours a day.

He didn't have to die poor; Tesla's royalties on electricity alone would have made him world's the first billionaire. Instead he sold his royalties for only 1.8% of what they were worth in order to keep his inventions accessible to the public.

Further Reading:

Badass of the Week: Nikola Tesla

Why Nikola Tesla Was the Greatest Geek Who Ever Lived

Nikola Tesla - Did You Know?

8 Things You Didn't Know About Nikola Tesla

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Subject: Victorian Dining Appeared In: Warnings at Waverly Academy

Any meal that took place outside and after six p.m. was automatically considered a formal event.

All of the men were assigned a lady to escort into the dining room. The host took the highest ranking lady. This could be the wife of a high profile guest, someone new to the area, or a new bride. The hostess was escorted by her husband's business partner or best friend.

Because Victorian dinners were so expansive, time was needed in between courses to allow for digestion.

Culinary schools first began popping up at this time, so it was considered highly fashionable to serve a course taken from a famous chef's cookbook.

Anna Russell, the Duchess of Beford, invented the concept of afternoon tea during the Victorian Era as well. She was a dear friend and lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria. Anna began having tea and small snacks sent to her room every afternoon to combat the afternoon grogginess we're all so familiar with. To say people took to the idea is a gross understatement.

If you were well off, you ate meat every day. Those we would consider middle class only had meat two or three times a week. The poor were lucky to get a small piece of bacon.

Potatoes, on the other hand, were a staple of the meal regardless of economic status.  The truly destitute lived on the stuff.

Canned food was invented during this era. It was originally the French's idea, but the U.K. decided they wanted in and patented the product in 1810.

Further Reading:

Victorian Dining and Dining Etiquette

Eras of Elegance - Daily Life in the Victorian Era

Victorian Food

History Cookbooks - Victorians

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Subject: Harry Houdini and the "Watery Grave". Appeared In: The Final Scene

J.J. Thompson is a fictional character created to tie Houdini to the Royal Palladium Theatre, so the escape mentioned in this book is actually based off of two water escapes: the Chinese Water Torture Cell and the Overboard Box escape.

These both premiered in 1912, and are considered some of Houdini's greatest escapes.

Because too many people were copying his Milk Crate act, Houdini came up with the Chinese Water trick, referred to as the USD/Upside Down Trick. His feet were locked in stocks, and he was lowered upside down into a glass case with the stocks locked in place. It premiered in Berlin's Circus Busch on September 21st.

One time Houdini was hurled against the side of a building while performing this trick due to nasty weather. He performed the trick with a safety wire from then on; obviously, this was for prevention only, and did not effect the escape.

On July 7th, Houdini invited the press onto a tug boat in New York to witness the Overboard Box trick. His hands and feet were cuffed  and nailed inside a wooden crate, which was sunk using 200 pounds of sand.  Houdini escaped in 57 seconds.  The crate was found to be unbroken with his chains still nailed inside.

The original box is currently held in the American Museum of Magic.

After Houdini's death, his remains were placed inside one of the boxes used in an underwater burial trick, and sunk in the same New York River where he first showed this stunt to the world.

Further Reading:

Box Escapes (Warning - this link tells you how he did it!)

Still Secret Secrets of Houdini's Astonishing Success

The Library of Congress' Houdini Collection (Remember to ask for Sherman Trout!)

Watch Houdini's Overboard Box Escape

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The Clue Crew Directory

So i was thinking of making a clue crew directory that maybe we coulld all put on our blogs and itll include like every nancy drew blog so:

Reblog this post if your blog is like 80 percent or more nancy drew :)

And once this hits enough notes ill start makign it and everytime someone reblogs it ill just add them in.

well yeah reblog away :D

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Teeny Update

I'm blown away by the support this blog has gotten. There's almost 60 of you following, and I've only made six posts! Thank you so much, Clue Crew, for welcoming me into your fold with nothing but positivity.

As of right now, I'm trying to reinstall all of my ND games on my new computer. Since I own them all except STFD, that takes a while. Then, because they're new, I have to play through them again to get to the screencaps I need, instead of loading from a save point. I've considered taking shots from YouTube walkthroughs, but not only is the resolution and picture poorer, but I can't control where someone moves their mouse. A random magnifying glass in the middle of a sentence is the last thing anyone wants to see.

Once all my games are back, I hope to post something every day or every other day. Until then, thank you very much for your patience. I have lots of information to share with you all, it's just a matter of finding the right images.

Take care of yourselves, and stay beautiful!

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Subject: Braille Appeared In: Secrets Can Kill (Original and Remastered)

The Braille alphabet was needed to bypass the security system to the school's boiler room. I thought learning how they were printed onto books was very interesting. Here are some more facts about Braille:

In addition to the list in the game, Braille has evolved to represent mathematics, scientific characters, accent marks, and foreign languages.

Braille is not a language, merely a code.

National Braille Week is October 7-13.

Children begin learning Braille by sorting small items, like macaroni, and strengthening their fingers. They crate their own stories with Brailling machines. By the time they're teenagers, they can take notes just as well as anyone else can.

Louis Braille developed the system when he was 15-years-old. He was influenced by a military technique called night writing, a system that allowed soldiers to read notes in the field without any light.

The reason Braille works so well is that it's designed to be read only with the fingertips, and the combinations of dots aren't based on any preexisting symbol that requires visual cues.

There are three types of Braille, called grades. Grade One is when every letter of every word is printed. It's handy for people still learning, and is used on short things like labels. Textbooks and the like use Grade Two, in which letters are combined to form contractions and whole words. (Books can be printed using Grade One, too, but Grade Two is more popular because it saves so much space.) Grade Three is even more condensed; it's basically shorthand. Because everyone has their own method of writing that way, there is no official guide to writing Grade Three.

Further Reading:

National Braille Week

Braille: Deciphering the Code

Braille Institute of America

Writing Braille on Omniglot

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Subject: Carnevale di Venezia (Carnival of Venice) Appeared In: Phantom of Venice

Carnevale is a big reason why Nancy got this case, so we should thank it. Aside from granting titian-haired teenagers high profile cases, Carnevale also...

Began in 1162 as a celebration of the Republic of Venice's latest victory. It became an official holiday during the Renaissance, but was outlawed by the King of Austria in 1797, I assume because his invitation got lost in the mail. It didn't return until 1979.

About three million people turn up for Carnevale each year. This is more than double the amount of Mardi Gras participants.

Despite their popularity, the Italian government has had a number of issues against masks in the past. Several laws were passed during the 13th-18th century, restricting masks, face painting, and what people could do while wearing them. (Gambling and paying sexy visits to nuns has been cited.)

Venice isn't the only one to have fun. Carnevale is celebrated throughout Italy. In Ivrea, they stage orange throwing battles. Oristano is known for reenacting jousting. Sicily goes all out with their flowers and paper mache floats, and is considered one of the most beautiful carnivals in the country. Calabria's parades include men in lovely wedding dresses.

Carnevale is a time where everyone is equal, or at least can pretend to be a different station than they are. The masks help preserve the make believe. Laughter and mischief are the main focus of the festival; it's a time for Italians to make fun of each other and the world without fear of reprisal.

Milan is really a party town; their festivities last four days longer than everyone else.

Further Reading:

Carnival of Venice

Carnevale Festivals in Italy

Carnevale in Italia

History of Venetian Masks at Carnevale

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Subject: Female Spies of the Civil War Appeared In: Ghost of Thornton Hall

In true HER style, not only did they provide information on 19th century espionage, they focused entirely on the ladies, something the majority of history classrooms neglect to mention. Here are some more incredible female spies on both sides.

Antonia Ford (1838-1871): Confederate. Moved through occupying Union sects like a true debutante, using her charm and gentility to learn Union secrets, which she passed on to her brother's superior officer, Brigadier General Stuart. He was so impressed with Antonia's intel that he named her an honorary aide-de-camp. This was the equivalent of Chief of Staff, the foremost personal assistant to a senior officer. She was arrested twice, and ended up marrying one of her captors. She had three children and died of heart complications in DC.

Hattie Lawton (?-?): Union. This woman is a regular Carmen Sandiego. Details of her life before and after the war are fuzzy at best. She was part of the Pinkerton's Female Detective Bureau, a group solely founded because female detectives could obtain certain secrets men couldn't. She was one of the women to uncover an assassination plot against candidate Abraham Lincoln. She and her partner were betrayed by two other Union spies to save their own lives, and Hattie spent a year in prison, continuing to stick to her cover story like a boss. After she was released, she dropped off the map.

Virginia Bethel Moon (1844-1925): Confederate. She and her sister Charlotte worked with several other spies in Tennessee. At the time the war broke out, she was attending school in Ohio. 'Ginnie' immediately demanded the school allow her to return home. When the school said no, she took a gun and shot out all the Union stars in the courtyard flag. She was active until the war ended, smuggling medicine and information to Confederate troops in Memphis. She was arrested twice, escaped once, and ended up becoming a philanthropist after the war, tending to those struck by yellow fever in the 1870s.

Pauline Cushman (1833-1897): Union. This is actually her stage name. She was born Harriet Wood in New Orleans, eventually moving to New York as a performer. While touring in Kentucky, she was fired after toasting to the Confederate President. What they didn't know was that Pauline had decided to put her acting skills to other uses; the toast was just the beginning of Pauline's plan to gain the trust of the Confederates while spying for the Union. She stole battle plans and hid them in her shoes. She was caught and sentenced to death, but was saved by invading Union troops. Did her brush with death halt Pauline? Nope! She smuggled herself back into the South dressed as a soldier, and continued her work until he end of the war. She was awarded the title of Brevet Major, commended by Lincoln, and was known as Miss Major. She traveled the country after the war telling stories of her experience.

Kate Warne (1833-1868): Union. She was the first female detective in the United States. Kate was the one to crack Lincoln's failed assassination plot; she then set up nearly their entire plan to smuggle Lincoln into Baltimore, including providing a disguise for him to act as her sick brother, securing private rooms on the trains, and not sleeping a single second until they were safe, prompting Pinkerton to use the slogan "we never sleep" for his agency. During the war she had at least eight other aliases, and posed as a Southern belle to gain information from soldiers' gossiping wives. She was even asked out on a date by John Wilkes Booth. She remained in charge of the entire women's detective bureau until she died of pneumonia in 1868.

Further Reading:

Annie Jones

Sarah Slater

Who We Are - Civil War Ladies

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Subject: Oaxaca (and their cookies) Appeared In: Secret of the Scarlet Hand

Taylor Sinclair's infamous cookies became an unexpected help during this game. If you're like me, you wondered just what Oaxaca was. Well...

It is one of the 31 states (discounting the Federal District) of Mexico.

Because of its geography full of mountains, canyons, ravines and a little thing called the Pacific Ocean lapping at its southern border, Oaxaca wasn't as affected as other areas by European influence. This allowed most of their indigenous culture to survive.

It's one of the top three most biologically diverse states in Mexico.

The name comes from the Nahuatal word "Huaxyacac", referring to the lush trees surrounding its capital city.

It's produced two Mexican presidents and several famous painters.

It is called Land of the Seven Moles, because each region produces their own brand of mole sauce. Actually, all of the cuisine in Oaxaca is incredibly varied. A favorite is chapulines, or barbequed grasshoppers.

They're well known for an alcoholic drink called mezcal, which is a drink similar to tequila, only made from cacti. (You know you want to try cactus tequila. It also tastes way better if you add a worm.)

Speaking of Oaxacan delicacies, are those cookies really as suspect as the rest of the characters claim? No, not at all! Taylor just doesn't bother with expiration dates. Oaxacan cookies are actually very tasty, known for their dark chocolate and smoky flavor of some cactus tequila. It'll take some patience and love, but do it right and you have one delicious snack. You can find the recipe here.

Further Reading:

Oaxaca's Wikipedia Page

History.com

15 Interesting Facts About Oaxaca

More Oaxacan Recipes