The Vintage News Mar 22, 2018 Stefan Andrews When people started using mechanical clocks during the 14th and 15th centuries, they were introducing a relatively new concept of counting the time. Mechanical clocks, like the one of Salisbury Cathedral, were game-changers, since before then people didn’t cut the day into 24 slices. There were the “temporal … Read more
War History Online Feb 25, 2018 Andrew Knighton World War Two Munitions in production Close your eyes and imagine an act of wartime courage. What do you picture? A soldier carrying a comrade to safety? A captain buying his crew vital time to abandon ship? A pilot hurtling through the skies, intercepting the enemy’s deadly engines … Read more
War History Online Feb 13, 2018 George Winston The only thing remaining from RAF Findo Gask in Scotland is the airfield’s control tower, but that is now nearly unrecognizable from its original form. About three years ago, the tower began its transformation to a four-story, single-family home. It is now on the market for £1.25 million. … Read more
The Vintage News Apr 4, 2018 Boban Docevski Some 4.6 billion years ago, the solar system was completely different. It was chaotic and volatile. Many of the planets that we know today were still forming via the process known as “accretion,” which involved the accumulation of smaller particles of matter into one bigger object with its own … 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 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 Apr 2, 2018 E.L. Hamilton It is perhaps the most coveted Space Flight Awareness award, and it’s hard to win. Less than 1 percent of the aerospace program workforce receives it annually, according to NASA, and the criteria of significant contributions is long. What is this prestigious award? A Snoopy lapel pin. Yes, … Read more
