Category: HISTORY

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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April 28, 2016 at 8:06 am

Picture of the Day: The Original Selfie Stick, 1934

Picture of the Day: The Original Selfie Stick, 1934

Back in the day— when sticks were actual sticks

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April 25, 2016 at 3:31 pm

Candid Photos from the Time the Beatles Played to a Crowd of 18 People

Candid Photos from the Time the Beatles Played to a Crowd of 18 People

Every artist was first an amateur. Even The Beatles

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April 21, 2016 at 5:06 pm

Picture of the Day: Your Car Photo is Inferior

Picture of the Day: Your Car Photo is Inferior

Apollo 17 mission commander Eugene Cernan looking like a boss on this lunar rover. Taken December 11, 1972

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April 19, 2016 at 8:37 am

Animation Brings the Past to Life Using Actual Photos from the Early 1900s

Animation Brings the Past to Life Using Actual Photos from the Early 1900s

Artist Alexey Zakharov transports you to the early 1900s in this jaw-dropping animation that uses actual vintage photos as the backdrop

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April 14, 2016 at 1:52 pm

Incredible High Res Photos of Dublin from 100 Years Ago

Incredible High Res Photos of Dublin from 100 Years Ago

Take a trip back in time and see what life in Dublin, Ireland was like over 100 years ago

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