Courtesy: The Vintage News Jan 5, 2018 Tijana Radeska If Blanche Monnier hadn’t made the wrong choice for a future husband, history might not have recorded her existence. She chose someone whom her mother disliked. In fact, Madam Monnier disliked her daughter’s love interest so much that she locked the girl in a tiny room until … 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
پہاڑوں کی شہزادی، سلینہ خواجہ، ایک بار پھر سے کچھ خاص کرنے نکل پڑی ہے اور اس دفعہ اسکے ساتھ پاکستان کی ایک اوربہادر بیٹی، ‘ثمر خان’ بھی ہے۔ یہ دونوں، سلینہ کے والد، یوسف خواجہ کے ہمراہ، ‘وادئ ہوپر’ پہنچ چکی ہیں۔ جہاں یہ چار روزہ قیام کے دوران بھرپور ٹریننگ کریں گی۔ اور … 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
