Archive for the ‘history’ Category
Holy Grail of Baseball Cards: The T-206 Honus Wagner
By Ben | amazing tales, history, sportshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_3BtIUSmbk "Starting from January 1909, the [American Tabacco Company] sought authorization from baseball players for [&hellip
How Fast Could You Travel Across the U.S. in the 1800s?
By Ben | history, mapsA flight from New York to San Francisco can be an all day affair including [&hellip
Discarded Images: A collection of bizarre medieval images
By Ben | art, historyMaybe there's something cultural that's lost in translation, but it turns out the illustrators of [&hellip
Nancy Wake- WWII Special Agent
By Ben | amazing tales, historyNancy Grace Augusta Wake AC GM served as a British agent during the later part [&hellip
50 Common Misconceptions
By Ben | history, skeptic[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxIGlMrrhQM&hl=en_US&version=3&rel=0] by MentalFlossVideo via Devour.com
The American Government's Advice to Yeti Hunters, 1959
By Ben | funny, history, nature"Item #2: In case "Yeyi" is traced it can be photographed or caught alive, but [&hellip
Abraham Lincoln's Duck Face
By Ben | funny, history, internet cultureIn an alternate universe: via Know Your Meme
A Civil War Game-Used Baseball
By Ben | history, sportsfrom The Vault: "During the War Between the States, the game was played on the battlefields and [&hellip
The True-Life Horror that Inspired Moby-Dick
By Ben | amazing tales, historyDefinitely one of the most amazing (yet disturbing) stories I've heard. The excerpt below is [&hellip
Paws, Pee and Mice: Cats & Medieval Manuscripts
By Ben | animals, funny, historyIt turns out cats have a long history among those who wrote and cared for [&hellip
Amazing Story- Man Squats in a Church for 4 years
By Ben | amazing tales, history"Lim spent more and more of his time concealed inside the church, keeping away from [&hellip
Facundo the Great
By Ben | culture, education, historyby Story Corps, via Neatorama. "Ramon "Chunky" Sanchez was raised in a small farming community [&hellip
Neil Armstrong narrowly avoids death. Returns quietly to his desk to do paperwork.
By Ben | amazing tales, history, sciencefrom the Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine via Boing Boing "In his Armstrong biography First [&hellip
The (Secret) City of London: A History
By Ben | historyThe history of the world (according to the History Channel)
By Ben | funny, historyvia humor-image.com via @rjallain
The proposed 38 United States of America
By Ben | economics, history, maps"If George Etzel Pearcy had his way, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s famous song would have been called [&hellip