Buried easter island maoi statue devoid of weathering shows detailed carvings
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Buried easter island maoi statue devoid of weathering shows detailed carvings
The Tiny Doors in the U.S. Capitol
From Burger on 5/28/2021 4:22pm
Have you ever wondered what these tiny doors at the US Capitol are for? Watch to find out.
Ever wondered where the Chinese character jing (well) comes from?
From Burger on 5/20/2021 3:57pm
Here's the answer: a Shang Dynasty (~1200 BCE) well from Hebei, where the crossed wood holds up the bottom of the shaft. Also, squashed but intact Shang wooden …
How the Nazis Lost the War Because of a Single Corpse
From Burger on 5/14/2021 2:51pm
How the Nazis Lost the War Because of a Single Corpse
The Scariest Rockstar of All Time (GG Allin)
From Burger on 4/23/2021 4:24pm
GG Allin was one of the most polarizing figures in the music world during the 80s and early 90s because of his antics, opinions and music. He is still talked ab …
Why The Elevator Shaft Was Invented Before The Elevator
From Burger on 4/9/2021 4:39pm
It sounds ridiculous, but it's true. At the Cooper Union Foundation Building in New York, there's the world's first elevator shaft: constructed four years befo …
Hear the World’s Oldest Piano at The Met Museum
From Burger on 4/9/2021 4:28pm
When Bartolomeo Cristofori constructed his "gravicembalo col piano e forte" (harpsichord with soft and loud) in the early 1700s, he wasn’t trying to create a …
The Man Who Couldn’t Die
From Burger on 2/26/2021 3:29pm
It was the height of Prohibition, and a man by the name of Anthony Marino was playing with his friends late one night in 1932 at his secret speakeasy bar called …
10,000 More Years of the Scientific Method
From Burger on 2/19/2021 4:04pm
Nature really had no idea what a shitstorm opposable thumbs would be, huh.
Burj Al Babas: Turkey’s $200 million abandoned ghost town
From Burger on 2/4/2021 7:49pm
(CNN) - Picture the scene: rows of identical, palatial turreted buildings, surrounded by rolling hills and woodland. No, this isn't the beginning to the latest …
Classical Japan’s Epic Fart Battles Will Blow You Away
From johnny5alive on 2/4/2021 7:25pm
Known throughout the art world as the 'fart scroll,' this 19th-century classical Japanese work depicts warriors training for a "fart battle," or He-Gassen. The …
41 Incredible Pictures That Didn’t Make The History Books
From Barry Riffs on 2/4/2021 7:23pm
You know what's awesome, seeing a 5 MB hard drive being carried by a plane or a family photo session from 1890s. These are those kind of pictures that you do no …
KRS-One: Real Men Don’t Exist in Mainstream Hip-Hop
From Barry Riffs on 12/25/2020 11:14am
KRS-One dove into the deep history that played a great role in the development of the internationally popular musical genre and cultural practice, dating back t …
Leonard Bernstein presents 7-year-old Yo-Yo Ma’s high-profile debut for President John F. Kennedy
From Burger on 12/4/2020 9:39am
The New York Times reported that on November 29, 1962, a benefit concert called "The American Pageant of the Arts" was to be held with "a cast of 100, including …