How Ancient Legends Gave Birth to Modern Superheroes
(via Gizmodo) The images that pop up in most people’s heads when they think about superheroes can be traced back
Read more(via Gizmodo) The images that pop up in most people’s heads when they think about superheroes can be traced back
Read more(via mental_floss) American painter Gilbert Stuart’s legacy is defined, in part, by his iconic painting of the first U.S. President,
Read more(via FlavorWire) On February 4, 1938 Walt Disney’s earliest animated feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs had a
Read more(via Popular Mechanics) The Tokyo 2020 Games will appeal to the Japanese public to donate enough metal to fulfill demand
Read more(via mental_floss) It’s easy to dismiss Jackson Pollock’s No. 5, 1948 as a senseless splatter of paint—but even if you
Read more(via Atlas Obscura) When the threat of nuclear weapons loomed during the 1950s, a whopping 928 atomic tests were performed in Nevada, mostly in
Read more(via Atlas Obscura) In the fictional American West, good and evil were not so clearcut. Go digging into the history
Read more(via mental_floss) Few paintings are as iconic as Grant Wood’s American Gothic. The piece’s staging is so embedded into American
Read more(via Popular Mechanics & Lustre Effects) Have you ever wondered what goes into making a lifelike animatronic animal? The hair,
Read more(via Atlas Obscura) Most people are familiar with that most clichéd of old cinema tropes: the damsel-in-distress, tied to the railroad tracks by
Read more(via mental_floss) In the 14 years he spent planning, sculpting, and overseeing the completion of the Mount Rushmore monument, artist
Read more(via Motherboard) Long before “let’s play” videos had us watching someone else play a video game, we watched a Windows
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