Category: HISTORY

June 7, 2016 at 7:59 am

This Then and Now Photo of Omaha Beach, Normandy Gave Me Chills

This Then and Now Photo of Omaha Beach, Normandy Gave Me Chills

On D-Day, June 6, 1944, the largest seaborne invasion in history took place on the coast of Normandy, France

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June 3, 2016 at 4:08 pm

Picture of the Day: The Day Sweden Switched to the Other Side of the Road

Picture of the Day: The Day Sweden Switched to the Other Side of the Road

On 3 Sept. 1967, all traffic in Sweden switch from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right. It was known as ‘Dagen H’ (H day)

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June 2, 2016 at 5:51 pm

Scientists Confirm King Tut’s 3300-year-Old Dagger Forged from Meteorite

Scientists Confirm King Tut's 3300-year-Old Dagger Forged from Meteorite

The finding is published in a new paper in the Journal of Meteoritics and Planetary Science

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May 30, 2016 at 4:02 pm

Built in 1962, the World’s Smallest Car has One Door, One Headlight and Manual Reverse

Built in 1962, the World's Smallest Car has One Door, One Headlight and Manual Reverse

Meaning you literally pick it up by a handle it turn it around. At 54″ long and 41″ wide, the Peel P50 is the ‘World’s Smallest Car’

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May 20, 2016 at 3:28 pm

This Best Buy Flyer from 1994 Shows How Fast Technology Has Changed

This Best Buy Flyer from 1994 Shows How Fast Technology Has Changed

Kids these days don’t know about that 14.4 modem life

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May 17, 2016 at 11:45 am

Picture of the Day: A Military Jeep Neatly Packed in a Crate

Picture of the Day: A Military Jeep Neatly Packed in a Crate

The IKEA version only comes with a single Allen key

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May 10, 2016 at 5:34 pm

Picture of the Day: Dali Atomicus, 1948

Picture of the Day: Dali Atomicus, 1948

In 1941, American photographer Philippe Halsman met the surrealist artist Salvador Dalí in New York City and they began to collaborate in the late 1940s. The 1948 work Dali Atomicus explores the idea of suspension, depicting three cats flying, water thrown from a bucket, an easel, a footstool and Salvador Dalí all seemingly suspended in mid-air

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May 10, 2016 at 4:37 pm

Canadian Teen May Have Found Lost City Using Ancient Star Maps

Canadian Teen May Have Found Lost City Using Ancient Star Maps

No other scientist has found such correlation in the past several hundred years of study of the Ancient civilization

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May 10, 2016 at 11:10 am

Meet Sir Nils Olav. King Penguin and Colonel-in-Chief of the Norwegian Royal Guard

Meet Sir Nils Olav. King Penguin and Colonel-in-Chief of the Norwegian Royal Guard

The origin of this peculiar story dates back to 1913 and involves legendary Norwegian explorer, Roald Amundsen

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May 2, 2016 at 2:49 pm

2200-Year-Old Mosaic that Says “Be Cheerful, Live Your Life” Found in Turkey

2200-Year-Old  Mosaic that Says "Be Cheerful, Live Your Life" Found in Turkey

A rare ‘skeleton mosaic’ from 3rd century BC discovered in Turkey’s southern province of Hatay in the ancient Greek city of Antiocheia

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