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Month: April 2018

Art Beauty Cultures 

The Art of Dressing Mannequins in Rare and Historic Garments

April 18, 2018April 18, 2018 0 Comments beauty

(via Atlas Obscura) The art of dressing a mannequin, no matter the setting, is not as easy as it seems.

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Entertainment 

Magicians who died trying to pull off a trick

April 18, 2018April 18, 2018 0 Comments interesting

(via Grunge) The world of magic can be a very deadly place. While safety conditions for many of the industry’s most

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Science 

Reversing Earth’s Spin Moves Deserts, Reshapes Ocean Currents

April 18, 2018April 18, 2018 0 Comments earth, science

(via EOS) Suppose some cosmic event, say, an asteroid impact, stopped Earth from rotating and then set it spinning the

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Art Beauty Cultures 

A Trip Through New York City in 1911

April 17, 2018April 16, 2018 0 Comments film

(via YouTube) Old film of New York City in the year 1911. Print has survived in mint condition. Slowed down

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Food Technology 

How Hostess makes their cakes

April 17, 2018April 16, 2018 0 Comments food

(via Insider)  This is how Hostess makes their legendary sweets. Their factory cranks out a shocking number of cakes making

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Architecture Cultures 

Why Do Many Historic Buildings in The UK Have Bricked Up Windows?

April 17, 2018April 16, 2018 0 Comments culture, history

(via Amusing Planet) There was a time in Great Britain when having windows in homes and buildings were prohibitively expensive.  That

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Food 

Why Are Bananas, Nuts, and Crackers the Only Foods That Say ‘Crazy’?

April 16, 2018April 16, 2018 0 Comments food

(via Atlas Obscura) An investigation into how three snacks became associated with madness.

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Art Cultures Et Cetera History 

18 Pictures From History In Extraordinary Kodachrome Color

April 16, 2018April 16, 2018 0 Comments history, photography

(via BuzzFeed)  Long before the age of digital cameras and selfies, Kodachrome was the gold standard of color photography, bringing

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Art Entertainment 

Netflix turns 20…

April 16, 2018April 16, 2018 0 Comments culture, history, innovation, interesting

(via Quartz) Moviegoers once devoted substantial chunks of their Friday evenings to perusing the aisles of video stores. You’d go

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Inspiration Language Reading and writing 

The Stories Behind 15 Poems We All Learned in School

April 13, 2018April 13, 2018 0 Comments life, poems, poetry

(via Mental Floss) Part of the reason why certain poems can endure for centuries is because the poets themselves are inspired

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Cultures Food 

The Great Bagel Rivalry

April 13, 2018April 13, 2018 0 Comments food

(via Great Big Story)  There’s no food as synonymous with New York as the bagel. But one city is giving

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Science Sports 

Why It’s Almost Impossible for Fastballs to Get Any Faster

April 13, 2018April 13, 2018 0 Comments baseball, science, Sports

(via Wired)  A wickedly fast fastball isn’t the anomaly it once was. A decade ago, Major League pitchers threw a

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