This ‘129 Ways to Get a Husband’ Article From 1958 Shows How Much The World Has Changed
How would you respond if someone asked you to describe the 1950s? Maybe you’d mention the Cold War between The United States and the Soviet Union? Elvis becoming more and more popular? The first satellites going into orbit? You could do that. Or you could explain how magazines advised women to seduce men. Recently, Kim […]
Watch a single cell become a complete organism in six pulsing minutes of timelapse
Native to central and southern Europe, the amphibious alpine newt breeds in shallow water, where its larvae are born, hatch and feed on plankton, before sprouting legs and moving to land. This timelapse video from the Dutch director Jan van IJken tracks the development of a single-celled zygote into the hatched larva of an alpine […]
RELIGION ROYALTY TRADITIONS Henry VIII’s Demon-Faced Horned Helmet Was Designed For Use In Parades Rather Than For Combat
Made by Austrian goldsmith Konrad Seusenhofer, a leading armor manufacturer of the 16-th century, this strange-looking Horned helmet was originally part of a suit of armor presented by the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I to Henry VIII in 1514. The Horned helmet is technically called an armet, with protection for the skull, hinged cheek pieces, […]
Some Really Weird History Photos
Back into the history, people were little bit weird. They are taking pictures funny dressed, with some really strange people, and I wanna say thanks to all people who saved these pictures, and allow us to see them today. I think that most of people will agree with me about these pictures, and for those […]
Titanic II to Set Sail in 2022 Retracing the Original Route
Artists impression of Titanic II leaving New York Harbor. Photo by Roderick Eime CC BY 2.0 Titanic II is on the way, but it’s not a movie. A replica ship is being made in China and aims to give passengers a luxury traveling experience with a historical flavor. Since its spectacular sinking after hitting an […]
Iranian women – before and after the Islamic Revolution
The Islamic Revolution of 1979 brought seismic changes to Iran, not least for women. One area that has come under scrutiny is the way women dress and wear their hair – the old Shah, in the 1930s, banned the veil and ordered police to forcibly remove headscarves. But in the early 1980s, the new Islamic […]
Iran revolution: ‘I wore a hijab and head-banged to Nirvana’
On my first day of school in Iran we walked down a poorly-lit corridor. I was holding my mother’s hand and crying. She was crying too. On my head I had a black hood, known as a maghnaeh, covering my hair. I was six years old and terrified. This was nothing like my kindergarten in […]
Fishermen Discover A Massive 10,000-Year-Old “Irish Elk” Skull
A fisherman and his assistant were out on the lakebed of Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland on Sept. 5 when they reeled in the farthest thing from their usual catch. Raymond McElroy and his assistant, Charlie Coyle, were shocked when they hooked a massive pair of elk antlers with its skull almost fully intact. As it turns […]
Proof of time travel? Painting from 1850 shows woman texting on iPhone
A PAINTING from the 1850s appears to show a woman looking at a smartphone – sparking suggestions of time travel. The scene looks for the world like a 21st century teenager texting or looking at social media while carelessly walking down the street but was actually painted around 1850. In ‘The Expected One’ Austrian artist […]
What Life Is Like Inside The Tiny Town In North Carolina Where Cars Are Banned
There’s a good reason most of the roads in Love Valley, North Carolina are called ‘trails’ instead of roads, or lanes, or even streets. It’s because this tiny town in the Brushy Mountains of North Carolina doesn’t allow cars. It was founded in 1954 by one man who merged two dreams when he put the […]