Courtesy: The Vintage News Jan 13, 2018 Ian Harvey Most famous symbols of Egyptian Culture For thousands of years, no one could figure out how the massive blocks of stone were brought from locations that were over 100 miles from the Giza Valley to build the tomb of King Khufu, pharaoh of Egypt from 2589 BC to 2566 … Read more
Courtesy: The Vintage News Dec 26, 2017 E.L. Hamilton Fences are said to make good neighbors. This was especially true on the American frontier in the late 1880s when people talked literally over the wires. It all came about when Alexander Graham Bell’s invention of the telephone collided with the epic fencing of the Great Plains. … Read more
Courtesy: The Vintage News Jan 19, 2018 Domagoj Valjak The late 1920s and 1930s were the golden age of airships, lighter-than-air aircraft also known as dirigibles or zeppelins. At that time, entrepreneurs across the world were convinced that airship design had been perfected and many people saw these colossal flying balloons as the bright future of … Read more
Courtesy: The Vintage News Apr 8, 2018 Bruce Fenton Photo: Paul Hudson/FLickr CC By 2.0 In March 2010 the analysis of bone fragments at the Denisova Cave site in Siberia revealed a new human species to the world, the Denisovans. Since then we have learned that the ancestors of the Denisovans and Neanderthals separated from those … Read more
Courtesy: The Vintage News Jan 3, 2018 Goran Blazeski Often referred to as the “king of gems,” diamonds have represented many things throughout the ages, including deep love, perfection, illumination, endurance, fearlessness, purity, and infinity. We suppose that you’ve probably heard “A Diamond Is Forever.” It is certainly one of the best-known slogans of the 20th century, but more importantly, it was … 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
Courtesy: The Vintage News Feb 22, 2018 Magda Origjanska In 1965, in the middle of the Gemini 3 mission, astronaut John Young reached into his space suit and pulled out a surprise–he offered a corned-beef sandwich to his crewmate, Gus Grissom. At the time it didn’t cross his mind that this would be the first corned … Read more
