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
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’
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
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
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 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
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.
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
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
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, 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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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), 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)
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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‘God Help You’: John Lennon’s Vicious Letter To Linda And Paul McCartney (1971)
In 1971, John Lennon wrote to Linda and Paul McCartney, a response that was triggered by a letter from Linda in which she had admonished...
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Victorian Maps of Very Different Male and Female Hearts
In A Map of the Open Country of a Woman’s Heart – Exhibiting its internal communications, and the facilities and dangers to Travellers...
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Remembering The Time When Refugees Fled War-Torn Europe For Havens In The Middle East
Looking for peace in the Sinai desert When Axis and Soviet forces invaded Eastern Europe and the Balkans in the early years of World War...
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