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13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol CCLXXXVIII)

1. NASA’s Giant Wind Tunnels Throughout the 20th century, NASA (and its predecessor, NACA) made extensive use of gigantic wind tunnels to test and refine designs for airplanes, spacecraft, and many other vehicles and structures in efforts to make flying safe… The largest, still in operation, is the 80-foot by 120-foot tunnel at NASA’s Ames Research…

Yearbook Memories of a Historically Black University

It’s that time of year when college graduates are throwing off their caps and I thought this might be a good time to share some photographs I’ve been accumulating for a while now. Gathered here from the internet, are bits and pieces from the early yearbooks of Howard University, a historically black college and one of…

Check in to the Most Beautiful Insane Asylum in the World

When you picture a mental asylum, this is probably not quite the image that pops up. Stark hallways and dungeon-like holding cells is what Hollywood has taught me to imagine, but over in the rolling hills of Tuscany, flying over the cuckoo’s nest was done in style once upon a time… Photographs (c) Alex Doomer Palatial grounds,…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCLXXXVII)

1. Flying First Class with Air France, 1957 Photos by Eugene Louis Kammerman, photographer for the United States Army, he married a French woman and decided to stay in France. Found on Eye of Photography. 2. The Howard University Glee Club, 1936 Established in 1867 – Howard is a Tier 1, private, historic co-educational…

The American Jet Set Artist who Painted the Peak of 1980s Excess

When a former beauty queen-turned-dictator’s wife commissions you to paint her family portrait, you know you’d better do it– and make them all look as fabulous as they did on last week’s episode of Dynasty. The year was 1982 when Imelda Marcos, the First Lady of the Philippines with the world’s largest-known shoe collection, first…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCLXXXVI)

1. Ornithologist Jerry McGahan would never ever ever have a cooler picture taken of him Jerry is pictured with a 6 month old Andrean Condor, the largest flying bird on earth. Photographed by the Helen and Franck Schreider (that couple that honeymooned around the world on an amphibious jeep). Another version of this photo made it to…

Murder in the Blueprints of Frank Lloyd Wright

The legendary American architect Frank Lloyd Wright never wore his heart on his sleeve. For better or for worse, he dressed up his blueprints in his feelings, and nowhere is that reflex so painfully clear than in his handful of mysterious, pre-Colombian-inspired houses built in California in the early 1920s. You could call them “the…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCLXXXV)

1. The Georgia Girl Drive-In A historic landmark in Woodbine, Georgia. The drive-in was owned and operated by Davis & Lillian White. Photo sources 1 & 2. Find the location here. 2. An Island of 4 Seasons Kotisaari Island is a small landmass, accessible only by boat, in the town of Rovaniemi. Nestled into the Kemi…

The Transgender French Spy History Forgot

The Chevalier d’Eon knew how to turn heads. She was charming to boot, and an unmatched swordfighter; an impeccable spy for the French government, and capable of dazzling the Empress of Russia. Above all, she found the courage to publically affirm her identity as a transgender woman — an especially intimidating task in 18th century.…

That Time Walt Disney Bought His Own Autonomous Utopian City of the Future

And then, Walt Disney created utopia. Well, almost. Before his death in 1966, America’s greatest entrepreneur was planning his own city which would have almost total autonomy within its borders, where residents would live and work for Disney in some way, using the latest technology in their homes and experimenting with innovative community ideals. Walt called it E.P.C.O.T,…

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