The Vintage News Jun 8, 2018 Kristin Thomas If you know people who have tattoos, there’s a good chance at least one of them has a nautical-themed design somewhere on his or her body. Today, sailor tattoos, also referred to as “traditional tattoos” or “old school tattoos,” are seeing a resurgence. WW2 – sailors aboard USS … Read more
July 2, 2018 by Paulo Coelho “When you want something from all your heart, all the universe will conspire in helping you to achieve it.” — The Alchemist We all have heard this quote in different ways, and got motivation by these golden words. Today I’m going to talk about the man who inspired billions of people … Read more
The Vintage News May 31, 2018 George Winston In 1981, Sea Search Armada, a company funded by American investors and based in Belleview, Washington, found a three-hundred-year-old wreck of a Spanish Galleon in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Cartagena, Colombia. It was the San José, sunk by the British in June of 1708 in … Read more
May 31, 2018 George Winston Princess Elizabeth as Mechanic and Driver. Photo Credit. © IWM It wasn’t unusual to see a woman in a military uniform in England in 1945. As early as 1939, Time magazine ran a cover story that reported on British women in World War II. Thousands of women took on roles usually … Read more
May 31, 2018 George Winston Beginning in 1962 and continuing until 1971, the United States military, with the approval of President John F. Kennedy, sprayed over twenty million gallons of herbicide over more than four and a half million acres in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia in order to defoliate the jungle and reduce the areas available … Read more
The Vintage News Mar 30, 2018 Martin Chalakoski Deep in the Leno Valley of Trento Province in the far north of Italy, next to lake Lago di San Colombano, solitude is taken to a whole other level and isolation literally to new heights. While it is somewhat expected for a hermitage to be hard to reach, San … Read more
The Vintage News Dec 3, 2017 E.L. Hamilton Photo:dee & tula monstah CC By 2.0 It is hard to believe today, when more women run than men. But until 1972, women were prohibited to run the Boston Marathon—the oldest and most prestigious marathon (26.2 miles) in the United States. In 1967, Kathrine Switzer managed to get … Read more
