Abandoned Spaces Warsaw Fortress was is a group name given to a system of fortifications built in and around the Polish capital. They were all constructed during the time when the city was part of the Russian Empire. In the 19th century, Warsaw was part of what was known as Congress Poland, or Russian Poland. … Read more
Abandoned Spaces The Warsaw Radio Mast was the tallest structure in the world when it was constructed in 1974. And it remained the tallest man-made object in the world as long as it stood strong. Unfortunately, it collapsed on August 8, 1991. It took humanity 19 more years to make a taller structure and surpass … Read more
The Vintage News Jul 3, 2018 Larissa Harris It is neither news nor a mystery that Leonardo da Vinci played with hidden messages and symbols in his paintings. According to a few historians of art and other specialists, some of da Vinci’s most famous paintings such as The Last Supper, and Madonna on the Rocks reveal … Read more
The Vintage News May 9, 2018 Martin Chalakoski In August 2017 a group of angry protesters and human-rights activists gathered around the statue of Dr. J. Marion Sims in Central Park in New York City. Fired up, enraged, dressed in white hospital gowns sprayed with red (as in blood) to signify women’s pain and suffering during … Read more
The Vintage News Feb 7, 2018 Stefan Andrews Credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images Despite all the discoveries that have been made about Ancient Egypt, archaeologists are confident that there’s more to be found, new riches sleeping under the vast dunes of the desert. They seem to be right, as a tomb was recently unearthed that belonged … Read more
The Vintage News Apr 22, 2018 Stefan Andrews Footprints belonging to two different kinds of dinosaurs, discovered on Scotland’s Isle of Skye, have revealed new details of how the now-extinct creatures evolved and moved during a period of the Jurassic era. Traces of the dinosaurs were found both as part of trackways and as isolated marks, … Read more
The Vintage News May 8, 2018 Stefan Andrews Photo: MICHAEL HANSON AND BHART-ANJAN S. BHULLAR A very early bird species known as Ichthyornis dispar is helping scientists answer questions on how our avian friends evolved from dinosaurs. Fossilized specimens of four skulls, mostly fragmented, of this Cretaceous period seabird species have been used by both U.S. and U.K. scientists … Read more
