The older I get, the more fascinated I become by the history of ordinary things. Not just great historical events or famous people, but the little things we do every single day without ever wondering where they began. Take mascara, for example. I recently found myself wondering when women first started wearing it. Surely it hadn’t always existed. As it turns out, people have been decorating their eyes for thousands of years. Around 3000 BC, both Egyptian women and men lined t