10 TV Shows That Recycled Their Sets
(via mental_floss) With a few exceptions, television productions don’t typically enjoy the massive budgets of their big-screen counterparts, so producers
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US History
The Brooklyn Bridge opened on this day in 1883
(via History) After 14 years and 27 deaths while being constructed, the Brooklyn Bridge opened, connecting the great cities of
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Home in a Can: When Trailers Offered a Compact Version of the American Dream
(via Collector’s Weekly) People buy trailers to go camping in or to live in more permanently, but while the two
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New York Public Library dedicated on this day in 1911
(via History and Piktochart) In a ceremony presided over by President William Howard Taft, the New York Public Library, the
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St. Pierre and Miquelon: The Last French Colony in North America
(via Amusing Planet) About 25 kilometers off the coast of Canada, in the North Atlantic, lies a tiny bit of
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This One Car Is All That’s Left of an Early Automaker
(via Popular Mechanics) The small northern Michigan town of Alpena is known as a vacation destination today, but in 1911
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Happy 11th Birthday to the USS Oriskany ‘Great Carrier Reef’
(via Atlas Obscura) On May 17, 2006, the USS Oriskany transformed from a warship into the world’s largest artificial reef
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The Hatfields and McCoys – what was the feud all about?
(via Neatorama) The facts about one of the most famous feuds in U.S. history.
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The Memphis Belle flies its 25th mission on this day in 1943
(via History Net) On this day in 1943, the crew of the Memphis Belle, one of a group of American
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How to Digitize a 357-Year-Old Atlas That’s Nearly 6 Feet Tall
(via Atlas Obscura) Archives and libraries are often tasked with digitizing old books in their collections to preserve them and
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When the FBI Went After Mad Magazine
(via mental_floss) In a memo dated November 30, 1957, an agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation identified as “A.
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Found: A Unique, Handwritten Copy of the Declaration of Independence
(via Atlas Obscura) In August 2015, though, the two Harvard researchers uncovered a copy of the Declaration created in the
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