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    The NASA Astronaut That Believes The Earth Was Created 6000 Years Ago

    The NASA Astronaut That Believes The Earth Was Created 6000 Years Ago

    To hear Charlie Duke tell it, his life's most important moment did not come 50 years ago, when he became the 10th and youngest of 12...
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    The Fall Of Rome In A Nutshell (Sort Of)

    The Fall Of Rome In A Nutshell (Sort Of)

    The gradual process of decline that brought the Roman Empire to an end is one of the all-time favourite history topics. That a nation so...
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    The Unmistakable Style of Inge Morath, One of Magnum’s First Female Photographers

    The Unmistakable Style of Inge Morath, One of Magnum’s First Female Photographers

    The mannequins, following the show, Dior Show at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, 1954. Inge Morath may have frequently photographed...
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    Leonardo Da Vinci's To-Do List Will Put You To Shame

    Leonardo Da Vinci's To-Do List Will Put You To Shame

    Tucked away somewhere, maybe in a pocket notepad, scribbled on some paper in your wallet or buried in an obscure app you rarely use, is a...
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    Hieronymus Bosch Figurines: Collect Surreal Characters from Bosch’s Paintings

    Hieronymus Bosch Figurines: Collect Surreal Characters from Bosch’s Paintings

    Few painters have created as rich a world as Hieronymus Bosch did in The Garden of Earthly Delights. The late 15th- or early 16th-century...
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    The Wild Story of Recording Metallica’s ‘Ride the Lightning’

    The Wild Story of Recording Metallica’s ‘Ride the Lightning’

    When 1984 rolled around, it was less Orwellian than some had predicted. Far from being a time of media censorship and cultural...
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    Meryl Streep Photoshopped Onto Food

    Meryl Streep Photoshopped Onto Food

    Sometimes a gorgeous surreal idea is born, and this Instagram account is one of them.
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    Classical Figures Photoshopped into Modern-Day Italy

    Classical Figures Photoshopped into Modern-Day Italy

    Ukrainian artist Alexey Kondakov merges figures from classical oil paintings with photographic scenes of modern Naples.
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    The Birth Of Astral Weeks

    The Birth Of Astral Weeks

    The story of how Van Morrison fled record-industry thugs, hid out in Boston, and wrote one of rock’s greatest albums. One day in 1968,...
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    The Make Up Of Song Genres

    The Make Up Of Song Genres

    Canadian illustrator John Atkinson reveals the anatomy of different styles of songs.
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    Ernst Haeckel’s Sublime Drawings of Flora and Fauna.

    Ernst Haeckel’s Sublime Drawings of Flora and Fauna.

    If you follow the ongoing beef many popular scientists have with philosophy, you’d be forgiven for thinking the two disciplines have...
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    The Woman Who Got Herself Committed In Order To Improve Conditions In A NYC Mental Institute

    The Woman Who Got Herself Committed In Order To Improve Conditions In A NYC Mental Institute

    In 1887, intrepid reporter Nellie Bly pretended she was 'crazy' and got herself committed, all to help improve conditions in a New York...
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    Jack Kerouac’s Hand-Drawn Map of the Hitchhiking Trip Narrated in On the Road

    Jack Kerouac’s Hand-Drawn Map of the Hitchhiking Trip Narrated in On the Road

    Surely most ardent readers of Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road have tried to map Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty's American journey....
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    In 1900 This Is What They Thought The Year 2000 Would Be Like

    In 1900 This Is What They Thought The Year 2000 Would Be Like

    In 1900, German chocolate company Hildebrands produced a series of postcards imagining the wonders of life in the year 2000. The...
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    Tony Hancock, The Lonely Death Of A Comic Giant

    Tony Hancock, The Lonely Death Of A Comic Giant

    On 25 June 1968 iconic comedian Tony Hancock was found dead in a flat in Sydney Australia after taking an overdose of sleeping pills....
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    How Fred Astaire Could Dance On The Walls And Ceiling.

    How Fred Astaire Could Dance On The Walls And Ceiling.

    The original article appears here in Bigfott.com It's no great secret how Fred Astaire was able to literally “dance around the room” in...
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    The Birth And Survival OF St. Paul's Cathedral

    The Birth And Survival OF St. Paul's Cathedral

    June 21, 1675 — The foundation stone for St. Paul’s, one of the most famous cathedrals in the world, was laid on this day as work began...
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    Liverpool Vs Oswald Mosley

    Liverpool Vs Oswald Mosley

    Many will already be familiar with the story of the scumbag fascist leader Oswald Mosley, he rose to fame in the 1920s while serving as...
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    Ernest Hemingway's Final Hours

    Ernest Hemingway's Final Hours

    July 2, 1961 — Ernest Hemingway, the Nobel Prize-winning author, adventurer, war correspondent, bullfighter, drinker and all-round macho...
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    A Million Casualties For 5 Miles Of Mud

    A Million Casualties For 5 Miles Of Mud

    July 1, 1916 — The First World War Battle of the Somme began on this day – one of the bloodiest conflicts in human history and the worst...
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    Paul McCartney And His Isolated Bass

    Paul McCartney And His Isolated Bass

    In many a musical situation, one can communicate an entire playing style in a name. When it comes to the bass—in pop music, at least—one...
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    The 1920's Aerial Photographs Of Alfred Buckham

    The 1920's Aerial Photographs Of Alfred Buckham

    Alfred Buckham's first ambition was to be a painter, but after seeing Turner's pictures in the National Gallery, he returned home and...
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    The London Guide and Stranger’s Safeguard against the Cheats, Swindlers, and Pickpockets (1819)

    The London Guide and Stranger’s Safeguard against the Cheats, Swindlers, and Pickpockets (1819)

    The London Guide and Stranger’s Safeguard against the Cheats, Swindlers, and Pickpockets (1819), written by “a gentleman who has made the...
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    ‘Why I Hate My Uncle’ And Want To Send Him To Hell, Says William Hitler (1939)

    ‘Why I Hate My Uncle’ And Want To Send Him To Hell, Says William Hitler (1939)

    In Look Magazine issue July 4, 1939 you can read a story by William P. Hitler. It’s called “Why I Hate My Uncle”. William Patrick “Willy”...
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