This video is one of those things that you see referenced in other pieces all the time, usually as 1950’s style B-roll.  Watch the whole thing and see how elaborate this really was!  Some of the “innovations” are things I’m still waiting to see, like the kitchen that bakes for me!  No, but in all [...]

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39 years ago yesterday, this was the front page of the New York Times:

Naturally, the New York Times “On This Day” website has the full text available.
Hard to believe no one has been to the moon since the Apollo missions ended all those years ago.  You think we’d be able to muster the technology and [...]

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This is a bit old, but I wanted to share it with those who haven’t seen it yet.  Quite easily one of the best teaser trailers ever, it plays heavily on the epic-sounding voice over we are so accustomed to hearing, which is perhaps why I love it so much.  Enjoy!

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Check out this absolutely stunning gallery of historical New York City photos.  It’s basically a bunch of slices of life, documenting everything from the late 1880’s until the early 1970’s.  The architecture featured in some of these photos is worth your time alone!

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The Magna Carta and the Great Writ of Habeas Corpus is 793 years old today!  One of the cornerstones of our oft-forgotten civil liberties, the Supreme court just voted to reinstate Habeas Corpus for detainees in Guantanamo.
No Free Man shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, [...]

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I’m a sucker for a good conspiracy theory.  I guess part of it is that like the underdog belief system challenging ubiquitous preconceptions, and just the thought of having another way to understand the world around you.  This is a real neat one, guaranteed to at the very least entertain, and at the very most [...]

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Just some incredible stock/archival footage of driving around NYC in 1928.  There’s also a bit of footage from the movie Speedy in there (although I’m not sure, it may all be from that film).  It includes some great shots of places like Times Sqaure, Washington Square Park, and DUMBO (before it was made famous [...]

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Born in 1867 and disappeared in 1925 while searching for what he called “The Lost  City of Z” with his son, Jack, Col. Percy Fawcett is the inspiration for the character Indiana Jones.
True to form, just like the character he inspired, Fawcett had an equal disdain for snakes.  According to The Museum of Unnatural Mystery
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Logoblink has a collection of all the Presidential Campaign logos from until 1960 (except Mike Gravel 2008).  Take a look, it’s pretty wild stuff!  I like seeing the visual design and trends from election cycle to election cycle.
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I love zeppelins. I genuinely do.  There is something fantastic about these airships gliding through the atmosphere; something completely romantic about them.  I think of the movie Metropolis by Fritz Lang, in which he shows a futuristic city where zeppelins and planes dock on tops of skyscrapers.  I think of the game Crimson Skies (which [...]

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A master of longevity, Li Ching-Yuen supposedly died at a staggering 256 years old (just about a quarter of Methuselah!)  From Wikipedia:
Li Ching-Yuen was supposedly born in 1677 in Chyi Jiang Hsie, Szechuan province. He spent most of his life in the mountain ranges gathering herbs and knowledge of longevity methods.
In 1748, when he was [...]

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This one is for all the conspiracy buffs out there.
Flickr user squareintheteeth has posted a great gallery of an old Masonic handbook from the 20’s
“Pictures from an enciphered Masonic handbook detailing their rituals and speeches, printed in 1920.
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So apparently, Winston Churchill’s parrot, Charlie, is still kicking around and enjoying good health.  Supposedly the parrot was born in 1899, making him 109 years old, the world’s oldest parrot.  The Anti-fascist bird still swears at Hitler and the Nazis, just as his master taught him to so many years ago.

*Not Charlie Pictured
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