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Normandy Tank Museum Collection to be Sold in September
One of the world’s greatest collection of WW2 armor and support vehicles is to be broken up and sold this September 18th. French tank specialist and enthusiast, Patrick Nerrant started building his collection of armored vehicles from the Second World War … Continue reading
Vintage 20s & 30s Bondage and Fetish Gear By Yva Richard and Diana Slip (NSFW)
As Michel Foucault famously attested, we often presume that contemporary society is singularly sexually liberated, that those who came before us were far more conservative, even their innermost fantasies more bourgeois than ours. That is, of course, completely untrue – … Continue reading
Study reveals Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘irrelevant’ scribbles mark the spot where he first recorded the laws of friction
A new detailed study of notes and sketches by Leonardo da Vinci has identified a page of scribbles in a tiny notebook as the place where Leonardo first recorded the laws of friction. The research also shows that he went … Continue reading
Never-Before-Seen Photos Of Fukushima’s Ghost Town (27 pics)
Urban explorer and photographer Keow Wee Loong illegally visited abandoned settlements around the Fukushima Daichii nuclear power plant and produced a series of photos of a post-apocalyptic world inhabited only by feral beasts. The Malaysian photographer said that he didn’t … Continue reading
Earliest Use of the Word Fuck Discovered – Medievalists.net
And here’s a few rude words and gestures to go with the above story: An English historian has come across the word ‘fuck’ in a court case dating to the year 1310, making it the earliest known reference to the … Continue reading
Oakland Heavy Duty: 1918 | Shorpy Historic Picture Archive
I regularly re-post photos from Shorpy but my favorite part of the site is waiting for a day or so until others have posted information about a particular image. This one was fascinating, especially if you’re into industrial technology and … Continue reading
Free Online Virtual Library from the Getty Museum
Getty Publications has launched two new online catalogues highlighting antiquities in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, providing free access to these works online and in a variety of downloadable formats. Getty President and CEO James Cuno announced these … Continue reading
Representations of Demons in the Egyptian ‘Book of Two Ways’
Between Texts and Images: Representations of the supernatural entities in the so-called Book of Two Ways A Belgium-based Egyptologist has discovered the oldest depictions of ancient Egyptian demons, showing that demonic entities populated the ancient Egyptians’ imaginations as far back as … Continue reading
Fashionable in Communist Poland
And exhibit at the Polish Museum of Art in Krakow examines the fashions during the Communist era in Poland. Photos by BARTOSZ SIEDLIK
Scans show ‘90% chance’ of hidden chambers in Tutankhamun tomb
For at least 3,339 years, nobody has seen what lies behind the west and north walls of the burial chamber of Tutankhamun. But this secret of three millennia might not last much longer. On Thursday, Mamduh al-Damati, the Egyptian antiquities … Continue reading
Stannous Flouride's Book of Truthiness 