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Month: January 2017

Art Cultures Design Et Cetera 

15 of the World’s Most Beautiful Passports

January 25, 2017January 18, 2017 0 Comments art, design

(via mental_floss)  our passport is the one thing you always have with you when you travel around the world, so

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Design Et Cetera Humor 

Sam Barsky Knits Sweaters Of The Landmarks He Visits

January 25, 2017January 16, 2017 0 Comments art, sweaters

(via Good) Most tourists purchase a souvenir of the places they visit while at the landmark or attraction. But a

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Art Cultures Et Cetera History 

Found: A 400-Year-Old Buddha Statue, Hidden Under a Manmade Lake

January 25, 2017January 16, 2017 0 Comments art, discovery, statue

(via Atlas Obscura)  In China’s Jiangxi province, in the country’s southeast, a hydropower renovation project has revealed a centuries-old statue

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Science 

8 Surprising Facts About the Deepest Part of the Ocean

January 24, 2017January 18, 2017 0 Comments science

(via mental_floss)  The deepest part of our oceans, the region from below 20,000 feet to the very bottom of the

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Humor Inspiration 

The Iconic ‘Seinfeld’ Theme Song Was Totally Improvised

January 24, 2017January 16, 2017 0 Comments creativity, music

(via Great Big Story)  Whether you’re a “Seinfeld” devotee or not, the iconic synth-bass sounds of the sitcom’s theme music

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Engineering Et Cetera Inspiration Technology US History 

Apollo 1: Pure oxygen, a single spark, and death in 17 seconds

January 24, 2017January 24, 2017 0 Comments accident, history, nasa, Space, space program

(via Ars Technica)  50 years ago this week, on January 27, 1967, tragedy struck the Apollo Lunar program program when

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Art Character Design Et Cetera Inspiration 

Beer Tap Handles Born in the U.S.A.

January 23, 2017January 18, 2017 0 Comments art, craft, USA

(via Great Big Story) One of the largest producers of beer tap handles in the United States doesn’t outsource its

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Art 

15 Things You Might Not Know About Monet’s ‘Water Lilies’

January 23, 2017January 16, 2017 0 Comments art, impressionism

(via mental_floss)  Claude Monet’s Water Lilies is beloved around the world, a radiant example of French Impressionism and the glory

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Cultures Design Entertainment History 

The evolution of the book

January 23, 2017January 12, 2017 0 Comments history, technology, writing

(via TED Ed)  What makes a book a book? Is it just anything that stores and communicates information? Or does

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Cultures Engineering Reading and writing Science Technology US History 

In the 1960s, Telegraph Poles Were Equipped With Nuclear Bomb Alarms

January 20, 2017January 12, 2017 0 Comments bomb, military, nuclear war, technology, war

(via Atlas Obscura)  The “Bomb Alarm System,” designed and implemented by Western Union, wasn’t a secret, but it was unobtrusive

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Architecture Beauty Cultures Entertainment 

The 7 Biggest Stadiums in the World

January 20, 2017January 10, 2017 0 Comments architecture, Sports

(via Popular Mechanics)  Don’t expect intimate views when you enter one of the world’s largest stadiums, but at least you

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Et Cetera History US History 

Fun facts from past presidential inaugurations

January 20, 2017January 18, 2017 0 Comments presidential, us history

(via CNN) Sometimes presidential inaugurations are full of pomp and circumstance. Sometimes they end with the newly sworn-in president jumping

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