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

1. These Neatly Organised Film Posters Available to buy as prints by Jordan Bolton. 2. A Hula Hoop Contest on the Champs Elysées, 1958 Found on SimplyMagdorable. 3. This Side Saddle Superstar This picture shows what an equestrienne, a female horse rider, had to cope with in 1910. Not only did she have…

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

1. Arsenic Wafers, nibbled on by Victorian women to get a very pale skin tone Say the word arsenic and most people think “deadly poison.” Arsenic was the poison of choice for murderers up through the latter part of the nineteenth century, and it is still used for homicides up to the present time. It…

Oh Lord, Won’t you buy me a Gypsy Caravan…

Why would you want a Mercedes-Benz when you could buy a whole new lifestyle? The day that I have a backyard to park it in, mark my words, I’ll buy a gypsy caravan and turn it into my mobile MessyNessyChic clubhouse. And I found just the company to get it from… We’ve found each other by chance, my…

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

1. Kite Flying with Alexander Graham Bell In 1899, Alexander Graham Bell, famous for inventing the telephone, began experimenting with kites in search of insights into the possibility of powered flight. The basic problem of creating flying objects is that as a body’s surface area is squared, its weight is cubed, limiting the maximum size…

Meet the Bizarre Youtuber dropping the Best Undiscovered R&B Songs of the Year

If you don’t know who Justin Kuritzkes is, until a few minutes ago, I was in the same boat. On my daily aimless scroll through the depths of internet forums, I was randomly drawn to a link titled “Falling in Love with a Photograph”. Just listen to this… It’s pretty damn catchy right? At first I thought…

Kid Brothers were too Poor to buy Card Games so instead, they Made their Own

For those of us that grew up with the means to buy the commercial card games, do you know where they ended up? I know most of my mediocre board games and card collections gathered dust in the parents’ basement for years before they finally inevitably ended up in the trash. But for two brothers who couldn’t…

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

1. The Man who Collects Stones For years, every day, Luigi Lineri has walked along the Adige in search of stones… In the mid-1960s, Lineri noticed that some of the small rocks that have supported the watercourse for millennia, although smoothed by the incessant passage of time and water, still bear the traces of some…

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

1. A Double-Decker Caravan complete with chandelier and marble fireplace Image (c) Matt Bucknall What was once derelict scrubland at Sutton House in Hackney has been transformed into a late 20th century-themed urban oasis with an edible garden, and art installations including The Grange – a 1970s caravan fitted out as a historic stately home. Details on…

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

1. Before alarm clocks were invented, there was the knocker-up The old English occupation known as a “Knocker-Upper”, involved going from client to client and tapping on their windows (or banging on their doors) with long sticks until they were awake. It lasted into the 1920s. Found on the Geneology website. 2. Calling Secret Service…

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

1. Brooklyn’s Hidden “Hole in the Wall” Restaurant Serving Up Home Cooked Caribbean when we write hole in the wall, we mean it literally. There’s no name, no sign, no hours, no menu, no door to walk through. Just a rectangular cutout from a storefront grate, just by the intersection of Kingston Avenue and St.…

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