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 …
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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 …
Times Square Was Once The Red Light District of New York City | I Was There
From hanstraplord on 11/28/2020 4:08pm
''I Was There'' tells personal stories highlighting a certain moment in history. In the premiere episode, we talk with Josh Alan Friedman, one of the only writ. …
Race by Thomas Byrne Edsall with Mary D. Edsall
From Ryan C on 11/26/2020 11:05am
This article from May 1991 offers an interesting perspective on how 30 years later the United States wound up in this position.
Portraits of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Favorite Collars and the Stories Behind Them
From Hilary F on 11/26/2020 10:51am
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an American icon. The late Justice, who died on September 18, 2020 at the age of 87, was only the second woman to sit on the U.S. Supre …
The lie that invented racism | John Biewen
From Burger on 11/20/2020 2:50pm
To understand and eradicate racist thinking, start at the beginning. That's what journalist and documentarian John Biewen did, leading to a trove of surprising …
Ancient Roundworms Allegedly Resurrected From Russian Permafrost
From Burger on 10/30/2020 4:54pm
The permafrost of Russia’s Siberian heartland has yielded an array of impressive finds in recent years. Last September, a local resident wandering along the …
New York in the mid 1930’s in Color!
From Burger on 10/30/2020 4:52pm
Extremely interesting long film about New York towards the end of the Great Depression. This film is in colour, motion-stabilized, enhanced and speed-corrected …