The Life and Death of 9413

Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 22, 2017 - Comments (3)
Category: Body Modifications, Culture and Civilization, Money, Movies, Surrealism, 1920s

The Playground Jungle

You could easily spend hours at The Playground Jungle, investigating all the childhood lore you half-recall, whether silly or naughty.

Here's a seasonal ditty I had never heard of:

We three kings of Leicester Square
selling ladies underwear
how fantastic, no elastic
not very safe to wear
O, star of wonder, star of light
the royal knickers caught alight
how fantastic, no elastic
guide me to the traffic lights

Or you could also buy their book.

Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 08, 2016 - Comments (4)
Category: Antiques, Anachronisms and Throwbacks, Culture and Civilization, Customs, Children

Guns 101

Do foreign college students need a Guns 101 class ?

Posted By: BrokeDad - Sun Jan 17, 2016 - Comments (19)
Category: Culture and Civilization, Education, Guns

Rainbow City

Palmitas Mexico has been beautified by Germen Crew, described as an alternative art group, at the government's request. The rainbow paint job is having great effects on the city too, including a reduction in crime. Sounds like a good idea well implemented.

Posted By: patty - Thu Sep 10, 2015 - Comments (2)
Category: Art, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Buildings and Other Structures, Culture and Civilization

Great-Grandpa Is Buried Where?

The GM factory in Detroit contains an old Jewish Cemetery. When GM acquired the land they agreed to leave the cemetery,which has had no burials since the '40s, intact. The company allows visitors just twice a year due to security concerns.

Posted By: patty - Wed May 13, 2015 - Comments (5)
Category: Buildings and Other Structures, Culture and Civilization, Industry, Factories and Manufacturing

Ancient Remedy

Scientists recreated a thousand year old medicinal remedy to study its efficacy and got a big surprise. The mixture, which includes cow bile, garlic, leeks and wine, kills the antibiotic resistant staph infection MRSA.

Posted By: patty - Mon Mar 30, 2015 - Comments (8)
Category: Culture and Civilization, Injuries, Disease

Women Becoming Dumb

Back in 1926, art historian and cultural critic Dudley Crafts Watson sounded the alarm on a looming problem. The modern American woman, he believed, was fast becoming a "statis dumb bunny" because labor-saving devices were allowing her too much free time which she spent amusing herself with frivolous entertainment, instead of improving her mind.

Today, Watson is best known because he became the guardian of Orson Welles. His warning about the dumbing down of our culture actually sounds like what a lot of cultural critics say. The only unusual thing about it is his focus on women alone.

Posted By: Alex - Mon Jan 19, 2015 - Comments (14)
Category: Culture and Civilization, Stupidity, 1920s

700 Year Old Find

An archeology dig in Denmark found some barrels from the fourteenth century recently. Take a guess what was inside, answer after the jump.

More in extended >>

Posted By: patty - Mon Mar 17, 2014 - Comments (9)
Category: Culture and Civilization

Life in America:  1947

Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 10, 2013 - Comments (5)
Category: Culture and Civilization, Customs, 1940s, North America

Time For Your Eastern German Military Bunker Vacation

You know you've wondered what it would be like. Now you have the opportunity to stay in an Eastern German military bunker and sack out in incredibly uncomfortable looking beds.

Here's a photo of some of the food featured from the time at the bunker -- I don't think these are on the menu.



Here's the link to the photoblog:

http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/24/21114499-tourists-pay-150-for-spartan-night-in-east-german-military-bunker?lite

At only $150 a night, it's a great deal and a blast from the past!

When they tell you it's an 18 mile hike to the camp, don't believe it -- it's only 100 yards.

Pass the borscht and dig in!!

Posted By: gdanea - Fri Oct 25, 2013 - Comments (5)
Category: Culture and Civilization