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| Friday Apr 6, 2012 | According to The Great War and Modern Memory, the following postcard was the first instantiation of the ubiquitous modern form. to History by fool |
| Friday Mar 19, 2010 | What happened to memepool? to History by crikey |
| Tuesday Apr 25, 2006 | On the moring of April 26th, 1986, V.I. Lenin Memorial Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station had a major accident in it's number 4 reactor. We still aren't sure what the total damage was, but it looks like the evacuated area around the site would make a nice park. to History by caspian |
| Thursday Apr 20, 2006 | I've always been skeptical of people who list participate in reenactments as a hobby. I guess I just don't see the point in spending my weekend doing something unpleasant like reliving the Civil War -- without the undesirable food, inadequate shelter, and debilitating battlefield diseases and injuries, of course. I suppose it's preferable to a lot of other ways to spend a weekend. I find a lot more value reenacting happier moments we have witnessed that are worth remembering and re-creating.
to History by rich |
| Monday Mar 27, 2006 | The Historic American Buildings Survey and Historic American Engineering Record is a project which documents historic landmarks, as well as structures which are likely to be demolished or lost due to neglect. Slowly they are putting their documents online at the Library of Congress. It seems that structures are often documented just before they are demolished with some support from the owners, perhaps as a condition of permitting. to History by shadow |
| Saturday Mar 25, 2006 | On March 26, 2006, VH1 will air the music video for Nena's "99 Red Balloons" continuously from 2pm EST to 3pm EST. The song, originally recorded in 1983 as a Cold War protest by German pop singer Nena, tells the story of 99 red balloons floating in the air on a summer's day which are mistaken for a Soviet first strike. Coincidentally, on March 23, we just celebrated the anniversary of President Ronald Reagan's famed 1983 "Star Wars" speech in which he called for "the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace, to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete." I wonder if the Great Communicator preferred the English or the German version. to History by rich |
| Thursday Jan 26, 2006 | Plan 59 presents a gallery of
terrifying spokeschildren and child mascots
from the '50s. Aieee!
to History by riotnrrd |
| Friday Dec 9, 2005 | Henry 'Box' Brown's life story brings entire new meaning to the phrase living in a box. to History by fool |
| Tuesday Nov 15, 2005 | Learn more about everybody's favorite creepy vaudville genre:
the ventriloquism act. to History by riotnrrd |
| Friday Nov 4, 2005 | Looking like something out of a steampunk novel, the
Maunsell Army Sea
Forts were built to help protect the Thames from aircraft during WWII.
Only
two clusters of the
multi-building forts remain, so if you live in England you should
take
a boat tour of these
fascinating old ruins before they're gone forever.
to History by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Apr 13, 2005 | Typewriters
(and their keyboards) seem like such
a simple
and obvious invention. Yet how do you deal with a
non-alphabetic language?
You become
extremely
creative. to History by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Apr 12, 2005 |
Check out the gams on that broad, daddy-o!
Vintage
Girl Wactchers takes you back in time to the 50's when
dames were dames and men were creepy
sexual predators. to History by riotnrrd |
| Friday Mar 4, 2005 | During the Cold War, Canada developed a device called the "Fruit Machine" to root out homosexuals from public service positions. This is not to be confused with the Fruit Fucker. to History by isosceles |
| Thursday Mar 3, 2005 | Become as strong as a Marine!
Learn meat-cutting at home in your spare time!
Make money with hamsters!
to History by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Feb 24, 2005 | When wealthy plantation owner Julien Poydras died, he left legacies all over Louisiana, including money for a college and an orphanage. Though both of those are gone, he is still remembered for a peculiar endowment to the people of Pointe Coupee Parish. He originally emigrated to Louisiana because of a broken heart. The girl he loved could not marry him because her family had no money for a dowry. Upon his death, he gave a sum of money "[to] be given to all the girls ... who get the chance of being married, and those who are in pitiable circumstances shall always be given the preference." In addition to a recent NPR story, this appears to have inspired at least one film. to History by yoyology |
| Friday Jan 21, 2005 | Once,
it was the most terrifying
encryption device in the world, now it's
just another PDF.
to History by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jan 20, 2005 | There were many ways in which slaves in the pre-Civil War South attempted escape. Henry "Box" Brown accomplished one of the most elegant. With the help of a white shoemaker, Henry simply shipped himself to Philadelphia in a large packing crate. Later, he became a celebrated abolitionist speaker, and published his autobiography. to History by yoyology |
| Monday Jul 26, 2004 | Oh, the horror! The sweet, sweet horror! to History by yoyology |
| Thursday May 13, 2004 | I do not consider this erotica, nor do I understand the urge to collect such relics, but hey, whatever floats your boat. to History by pyrrhuloxia |
| Sunday May 2, 2004 | Fly the abandoned skies, with this
guide to abandoned
airports around the United States.
to History by riotnrrd |
| Friday Feb 27, 2004 | This site about presidents is perhaps not as complete as some, but it has an interesting a well documented accounting of which presidents were distant cousins. to History by keith |
| Thursday Feb 26, 2004 | If you consider yourself to be a budding
Svankmeyer
or Quay
brother
(or just
another goth
who needs some home decor), steer your
barouche
over to the
Victorian Taxidermy
Company Limited, and peruse their stuffed
and mounted wares.
to History by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jan 26, 2004 | Alternate histories bring wonderful premises, like the dream dollars of the lost colony of Nadira, or the Victorian automatons: Boilerplate (sometimes a soldier), the Electric man, the Steam man, and the Automatic man. to History by isosceles |
| Friday Dec 5, 2003 | "All hair lasts forever and can be handed down limitlessly to future generations where autographs fade through the years especially if exposed to sun light." to History by fatherdan |
| Wednesday Nov 19, 2003 | Footwear of the Middle Ages: Tools, Terms, Styles, and Shaping. to History by yoyology |
| Tuesday Sep 16, 2003 | Smash the state, old school style, with this
collection
of historical anarchist texts.
to History by riotnrrd |
| Monday Sep 15, 2003 | Take a trip down a very nerdy memory lane by browsing through
this huge archive
of computer magazines from the 80's.
to History by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Sep 11, 2003 | Don't
worry.
The University of Minnesota's collection of old
social hygiene
posters
will help you navigate life's
difficult
situations. to History by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Aug 20, 2003 | You can build
your own version of an early
mechanical
television. to History by gator |
| Wednesday May 28, 2003 | In celebration of the big anniversary, folks are going all-out. TV specials, charity events, extreme sports, even multi-anniversary combinations. But why bother to climb the big rock when you can see the view online? to History by yoyology |
| Monday Apr 14, 2003 | Out of the complete collection of 2,300 Japanese Historical Maps now held at UC Berkeley's East Asian Library, just over 100 are available online. 29 of those have been integrated with current GIS data for Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto. to History by yoyology |
| Thursday Mar 27, 2003 | Just to show that there's nothing new under the sun, Samuel Pepys is republishing his 17th Century diary as a weblog. to History by yoyology |
| Monday Feb 24, 2003 | Why bother fighting Iraq when we can just as well attack someone we know we can beat? Pourquoi prenez la peine de combattre l'Irak quand nous pouvons aussi bien attaquer quelqu'un nous nous connaissons pouvons battre? to History by yoyology |
| Wednesday Feb 12, 2003 | Gay Stamp Collecting does not necessarily mean that the philatelists are gay, only that the subjects on the stamps are. to History by yoyology |
| Tuesday Dec 10, 2002 | This past week in Washington, the U.S. Navy announced it would name CVN-77, the tenth and last Nimitz-class
nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to be built, after George H.W. Bush, the 41st President of the United States, decorated naval aviator, one-time CIA director, Commander-in-Chief during Operation Just Cause, the invasion of Panama, and Operation Desert Storm, and alleged war criminal. Meanwhile, in Oslo, Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, one-time peanut farmer, and architect of the Camp David Peace Accords, the SALT II nuclear weapons control treaty, and the Panama Canal Treaty, accepted the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, 'for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.'
to History by rich |
| Tuesday Oct 8, 2002 | The phrase "race riot" may bring up images of
Watts,
Los Angeles,
Cincinnati, or a host of
other places, but most people would not think of
Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 1921, Tulsa's prosperous Greenwood neighborhood was called
"The Black Wall Street". In June of that year, black residents rose up to
resist an imminent lynching, and white Tulsans responded by
burning
Greenwood to the
ground. Though many in Tulsa would like to forget, the
repercussions are
still being felt. to History by yoyology |
| Tuesday Oct 1, 2002 | Best known for his system, Melvil Dewey (or Dui) essentially created the profession of librarianship, giving us an association, a publication, and an education. However, he does have his detractors. to History by yoyology |
| Thursday Aug 29, 2002 | In Ambrose Bierce's entry in the Devil's Dictionary for trial we find that: "In 1451 a suit was brought against the leeches infesting some ponds about Berne, and the Bishop of Lausanne, instructed by the faculty of Heidelberg University, directed that some of 'the aquatic worms' be brought before the local magistracy. This was done and the leeches, both present and absent, were ordered to leave the places that they had infested within three days on pain of incurring 'the malediction of God.'" to History by fool |
| Monday Aug 26, 2002 | Leni Riefenstahl, who gained notoriety for her films made for the Nazis, recently celebrated her 100th birthday. Although her public image has softened over time she still has to face up to her association with the Third Reich.
to History by lucky |
| Tuesday Aug 6, 2002 | From Creationism to Evolution, everyone has their own big damn idea about how it all began. to History by fatherdan |
| Friday Jun 28, 2002 | The Beale Papers have been pondered and perused by some of the best cryptographers of the past century or so. They have also been hotly debated by others. Some claim thet they were a hoax, but others claim to have found the treasure that the encrypted letters point to. to History by caspian |
| Thursday Jun 13, 2002 | Ned Kelly: 19th century bushranger, Australian hero/antihero, and creator of a really cool-looking bulletproof suit.
to History by fatherdan |
| Tuesday May 14, 2002 | Looks like I'm descended from Charlemagne. And so are you. to History by isosceles |
| Monday Apr 29, 2002 | Tired of reading the same old World War Two textbooks? Boring. That is, until you throw in Superpowers! to History by cyberpyro |
| Monday Apr 15, 2002 | The ETA Systems
ETA 10 was the only commercial liquid-nitrogen-cooled computer. Both
the LN2-cooled and the later air-cooled
models generated
plenty
of
memories to History by gator |
| Wednesday Mar 6, 2002 | Dino Kingdom
Nakasato
showcases dinosaur fossils from a small village in
southern Japan,
including
footprints
and the amazing
Mongolian
fighting dinosaurs!
to History by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Feb 19, 2002 | Margaret Sanger,
feminist
icon
and the founder of Planned Parenthood is usually accorded
unquestioned respect and praise.
However, she was also a crypto-racist supporter of
eugenics
who
championed sweeping sterilization laws.
Naturally, these views have been
downplayed by abortion supporters and
exaggerated by abortion
foes, but should be
kept in mind
before handing out
awards in her name.
to History by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Feb 13, 2002 | Sir John
A. Macdonald,
commonly known as
"Sir John
Eh?", was the
first prime
minister of Canada, and as "colorful" a
politician as you could wish on your worst enemy.
Drunken,
corrupt, and immensely popular,
he held office from 1865 to 1873 until his administration was
felled by
scandal.
to History by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Jan 22, 2002 | Most digit displays today are vacuum
fluorescents, 7-segment
LEDs, and LCDs.
In the good old days, though, there were a variety
of vacuum
display
devices, including the dekatron
counter/display, and the nixie tube. DIY
hardware hackers
are still building clocks
with them today. to History by gator |
| Monday Jan 21, 2002 | Sometimes I think that the Soviets gave a medal for just about everything. to History by cadastral |
| Saturday Jan 19, 2002 | Great God! This is an awful place and terrible enough for us to have laboured to it without the reward of priority... but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past. We took risks, we knew we took them; things have come out against us, and therefore we have no cause for complaint, but bow to the will of providence, determined still to do our best to the last ... Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale...
Robert Falcon Scott, 1912 to History by cadastral |
| Sunday Jan 6, 2002 | Sure, sure, we've all heard
about planespotting, but wreckchasing, or "Aviation
Archaeology"
seems more my speed.
to History by gator |
| What do a witch (Elizabeth Blanchard Garlick), a bitch (Lizzie Grubman), and electromagnetic mind control and the manipulation of space and time (Camp Hero) have in common? They're all linked to The Hamptons -- a series of affluent beachfront communities on the south shore of Long Island. Believe it or not. to History by rich |
| Wednesday Dec 26, 2001 | "My great-great-great-great-great granddad came over on the Mayflower."
"Big deal. My great-great-great-great-great granddad killed him."
to History by fatherdan |
| Friday Dec 21, 2001 | What would Abraham Lincoln want to say to us today? to History by tregoweth |
| Wednesday Nov 21, 2001 | Apparently,
the Dixie Apparel Company and Dixie
Outfitters create
clothes that
stress pride
in one's
Southern
heritage
without seeming "rednecky."
And a proud heritage
it is. to History by fatherdan |
| Friday Nov 9, 2001 | Utility owners often request that you call before you dig in order to prevent
backhoe
fade and other
accidents. Though some of these accidents are horrible, they
can't compare in magnitude with the time a Texaco rig accidentally drilled a
hole from Lake Peigneur into the top of a Diamond
Crystal salt mine.
The
entire lake drained
into the mine
in a matter of hours.
to History by gator |
| Wednesday Oct 31, 2001 | Lena Sjööblom,
Playboy
Playmate from November 1972, has accidentally
become one of the
most
recognized faces in the field of computer imaging.
(Take that,
Danni
Ashe.)
Originally scanned over 25 years ago at the University of
Southern California for use in the testing and comparison of
different
compression algorithms, use of this picture
spread,
and it soon became a
standard
benchmark.
What does Lena herself think? She's
confused
but amused. What does
Playboy think? At first upset by the use of their copyrighted image, they
soon realized that it did no harm (and gained them lots of free
publicity). Not surprisingly, however, there has been
some controversy on
the politics of using porn images in a heavily male-dominated
field.
to History by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Oct 28, 2001 | "The
Elephant House" is more appropriately described as "The Elegant
House." A worthy domicile for Mr. Joseph Merrick, who, despite his grotesque
appearance, could be described as "beautiful" in terms of refinement,
intellect, and grace. to History by fatherdan |
| Wednesday Oct 24, 2001 | Workable and unworkable perpetual motion machines. to History by fool |
| Friday Oct 19, 2001 | What does Afghanistan have in common with Haiti,
Japan,
Zaire,
Germany,
China
and the rest of the world? to History by nucleus |
| Thursday Oct 11, 2001 | The Association of Lincoln Presenters is a union of men and women dedicated to bringing Abraham and Mary Lincoln to life. "We are ready, willing, and Abe L."
to History by tregoweth |
| Wednesday Sep 26, 2001 | Time was when all that stood between you and radioactive fallout were the gallant,
white-helmeted men of the Civil
Defense. to History by fatherdan |
| Wednesday Sep 5, 2001 | Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Those who would help us remember the past pretend to re-enact it. to History by monde |
| Thursday May 24, 2001 | Next time your grandpa regales you with immigration stories, why not check up and see if he REALLY came through Ellis Island? to History by che |
| Saturday May 12, 2001 | Ancient Egyptians mummified their dead. ALL their dead. Ergo, they also turned their beloved pets and sacred animals into mummies. Adopt one today! to History by wheezer |
| Monday Apr 30, 2001 | As we head towards a future where cloning and genetic engineering will be a reality, it is important that we remind ourselves about our past, particularly the American Eugenics Movement. to History by kade |
| Wednesday Apr 18, 2001 | Divorced, beheaded, died - Divorced, beheaded, survived. Intermarriage & infidelity certainly make a royal geneology interesting. to History by lampbane |
| Wednesday Mar 28, 2001 | Picturephone was the 1960's vision of today's
web
cam
world. to History by gen |
| Monday Mar 5, 2001 | I find modern ruins -- fairly recent buildings abandoned and neglected
-- absolutely fascinating.
There are ruins of industry, such as an abandoned
Alcoa
plant in New Jersey, a former insane
asylum, or the old Carrie Furnaces
in Rankin, Pa.
There are the ruins on the water, such as the 1950's stately ocean
liner, the U.S.S. United
States, or Bannerman's
Island, in the Hudson River.
There are also ruins of towns, such as Centralia,
Pa., noted for the mine fire that's been burning underneath it
since 1961, or the equally infamous Love
Canal, NY.
to History by moose |
| Wednesday Feb 14, 2001 | "During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to see realised. But if needs be, my lord, it is an ideal for which I am ready to die." Nelson Mandela (RealAudio) at the Rivonia trial, 20 April 1964, before he was sentenced to life in prison.
to History by gen |
| Monday Jan 29, 2001 | The phone phreaks amongst us will love this uber-complete History of the Phone Company, which also happens to be the first web page I've seen thats nice enough to make me want to order a copy of it on CD-ROM. to History by mrbill |
| Wednesday Jan 10, 2001 | In 1942, Bell Labs
built a digital encrypted speech transmission system
with one-time-pads stored on 16" records. to History by gator |
| Sunday Dec 24, 2000 | Ghost Dog is an entertaining, sometimes poetic movie about an inner-city Mafia hitman who follows the Samurai code, as he understands it from Yamamoto Tsunetomo's 1716 book Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai. But Bushido (the way of the warrior) was an idealization, not a reality, and even scholars in Tsunetomo's time questioned the worth of warrior advice from someone who had never personally seen combat. So why has this collection of hypothetical advice become so popular with the influential? Could it be because Tsunetomo joins the ranks of Confucius, Plato and countless other upper-class writers who propose that the most noble act a lower-class person can perform is to obey superiors without question, even if it means death? to History by cricket |
| Friday Dec 22, 2000 | The Eastern Sierra doesn't usually make the list
of places to see in California,
but it is worth a visit. Camping is free on BLM land, and theAlabama Hills
and Lone Pine
still serve as
Hollywood's wild west. The area is also home to the more controversial aspects of California's past. The Manzanar internment camp still stands, and the
bitter, sometimes violent, fights
over water rights in Calfornia
started here. Owens Valley, now part of
the City of Los Angeles, no longer has a lake
, but continues to have
health
problems due to the particles of arsenic, cadmium and other toxins swept from the parched lakebed during windstorms.
to History by birgitte |
| Monday Dec 11, 2000 | So, a revolution overthrows the current regime and is replaced by a military
dictator who brutally enforces a misguided economic regime, promoting suffering and
eliminating human rights until he gets kicked out by the will of the people. Communist
Russia? Nope, Laissez-Faire Chile. to History by mpc |
| Tuesday Dec 5, 2000 | The
Hanford Site
spent most of the
cold
war
war
producing
plutonium and
uranium
for the US Nuclear
weapons
program.
After a both
productive
and checkered
past, it is now among the most polluted sites on the planet.
Millions of gallons
of radioactive and toxic waste are stored in 177 enormous underground tanks.
149 of these tanks have only one shell, and many of the tanks are
leaking waste
plumes into ground near the Columbia River.
Tank
106-C had so much strontium 90 in it that it would regularly heat up and
require cooling water, though it's a bit better now,
even if it may still give off flammable gases.
The DOE has documented
some of the site's history and some of the lessons
learned during the cleanup in their extensive website.
Unfortunately, not all is well at Hanford, and the Government Accountability
Project has also had to document
other facets of
the site's history. The Tri-City Herald also has an archive of local news about the Hanford
cleanup.
to History by gator |
| Tuesday Oct 3, 2000 | Great CGI of what the seven wonders of the ancient world probably looked like in their prime. Best of all, most of the images support 3-D glasses.
to History by skallas |
| Thursday Sep 28, 2000 | Wong Fei-Hung was a Chinese healer, martial artist, and genuine folk hero of the late 19th and early 20th century who is also the father of modern Hung-Gar kung fu. Kwan Tak-Hing portrayed him in hundreds of movies. More recently, he has been seen in films such as Once Upon a Time in China (where Jet Li kicks the crap out of Americans exploiting China) and Drunken Master II (where Jackie Chan kicks the crap out of Brits exploiting China). to History by nyarl |
| Sunday Jun 18, 2000 | If you're ever planning a wedding, you might try something beyond the traditional and
have a Roman ceremony. to History by laurel |
| Monday May 1, 2000 | Early in the 19th century, a young
German man named
Kaspar Hauser was discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg.
Initally taken to prison, it was eventually discovered that,
for reasons unknown, he had been kept
in a dark dungeon since early childhood, and denied any senosry input or
human contact. Conspiracy theories
were as popular then as they are now,
and it was a belief of many that he was the
the lost son of the
Grand Duke of Baden,
hidden away by political rivals.
Passing from caretaker to caretaker, Kaspar eventually
learned to read and speak, and became a celebrity; famous not
only for his mysterious origin, but also for his
innocence and
"christ-like
compassion". At the age of 21, however, he was assissinated
and his true origins never discovered. His story lives on, though, in a recent
play
as well a
movie by Werner Herzog.
to History by riotnrrd |
| Happy May Day! to History by boneyard |
| Sunday Apr 30, 2000 | HyperHistory Online is an interesting way to look at an overview of history. It may lack a little bit of depth in quite a number of places, but it's got quite a lot of breadth. to History by keith |
| Sunday Apr 23, 2000 | From the 1932 until the end of WWII, The Japanese ran Manchuria as a puppet state known as Manchukuo; under the figurehead reign of Pu Yi, Manchukuo had most of the trappings of a real state, including a postal system, currency, and railway system to History by mpc |
| Sunday Mar 19, 2000 | Wright Brothers 2003TM:
This time, it's personal.TM to History by tregoweth |
| Tuesday Mar 7, 2000 | Pittsburgh native son Grady Stiles II (aka
The
Lobster Boy), like many other members of his family, was born with
malformed
hands and legs and was raised as a
circus freak,
travelling around the United States in some of the
biggest carnivals from the '40s through the '80s.
He eventually married and and had four children, but when one of his daughters
tried to elope with a boyfriend of whom he did not approve, Grady shot the
man dead at point blank range. Amazingly, the courts did not jail him for
committing this murder, and for the rest of his life the Lobster Boy
abused and terrorized his family.
So chronic was his abuse that in 1992 his wife and one of the children
eventually hired a hitman who killed Grady as he sat in his trailer in
Gibsonton,
Florida.
to History by riotnrrd |
| The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive is a pretty astonishing repository of information. They have biographies of hundreds of mathematicians and an index of famous curves (the mathematical kind). Read all about Einstein or the circle. to History by keith |
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