November 12, 2010 0 Eternal Flame Pit Locals call it “The Door to Hell.” The name does it justice. The picture, above, [...]
November 10, 2010 0 Volcanic Scream In 1883, the Indonesian volcanic island of Krakatoa exploded. The explosion was so loud that, reportedly, [...]
November 9, 2010 0 Chicken Bomb The end of World War II was marked by the Americans dropping two atomic bombs on Japan, which teed off a [...]
November 8, 2010 1 Mystery Tome The image above — click here for a larger version — is from a book called the Voynich [...]
November 5, 2010 0 The Middle of Nowhere Argleton, Lancashire, United Kingdom. Where is it? That map above is a screen shot, via Wikipedia, of an [...]
November 4, 2010 0 Redefining Nemo In 2003, Disney and Pixar released Finding Nemo — a ended up with a smash hit on their hands. It [...]
November 3, 2010 0 Representation Without Taxation The slogan “no taxation without representation” was prevalent in Boston in the years leading up [...]
November 2, 2010 0 Lemming Population Control Lemmings. They jump off cliffs, en masse, following each other toward certain death. Ok, not really. The [...]
November 1, 2010 0 The First Photograph of a Person The photo above is a daguerreotype — the first publicly announced type of photograph. The [...]
October 29, 2010 0 Eight Miles Down > The canard: dig deep enough, and you’ll come out in China. As children, we all tried it, [...]