Courtesy: The Vintage News Mar 1, 2018 Goran Blazeski The American Civil War was the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history. Although no one knows precisely how many people were killed or wounded during this great tragedy, most researchers agree that the number of casualties went way beyond anybody’s expectations. It has been estimated that over 620,000 Americans lost their lives … Read more
Courtesy: The Vintage News Feb 20, 2018 Nikola Simonovski Alice in Wonderland is among the most influential books ever written. Adored by both children and adults, it tells the story of a bored little girl named Alice and her journey to an imaginary parallel world, filled with very amusing human-like creatures. Being one of the most notable … Read more
Courtesy: The Vintage News Mar 9, 2018 Magda Origjanska We often read or talk about the institution of marriage in our modern society, and it seems that more than ever before, people find it unnecessary, an obligation. Some people believe that the disintegration of marriage is a result of younger generations’ unrealistic aspirations or the rapid tempo … Read more
Mar 8, 2018 Nikola Budanovic Courtesy: The Vintage News Ever wondered why Greenland, three-quarters of which are covered by the only permanent ice sheet outside Antarctica, has in its name the adjective “green”? On the other hand, Iceland, consisting of the words “ice” and “land,” seems a bit too green to live up to that name. … Read more
E.L. Hamilton Courtesy: The Vintage News Photo: Jamling Tenzing Norgay CC BY-SA 3.0 Surviving a summit of Mount Everest requires a daunting list of essential supplies that take months to assemble and costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. Among fueling necessities, however, is a decades-old British treat: the Kendal Mint Cake. In fact, the humble … Read more
Courtesy: The Vintage News Nikola Budanovic In Nazi-occupied Europe, little people, or as is more commonly called, dwarfs, was to be under direct threat. The T4 Euthanasia Program targeted those who were disabled, mentally ill, mentally challenged, or suffering from hereditary growth disorders, and more than 300,000 perished in concentration camps or were simply given … Read more
Nuclear optimism in the 1950s spawned toys that promised to be a “seething scientific creation,” with some actually containing radioactive elements Courtesy: The Vintage News Brad Smithfield Photo by: The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis CC BY-SA 3.0 Gone are the days when people were totally oblivious of the dangerous effects of radiation exposure when it … Read more
