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Hundreds of Awesome Vintage Sea Flags hidden away in a Museum

It’s amazing what secret treasures museums don’t display. Hidden away in the back rooms of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England are 1000’s of flags used to identify navy vessels and shipping lines throughout history. The museum is constrained by conservation and space resources but they’ve done a very good job of documenting most of them in an…

Buy the “Walking Dead” Ghost Town, Just a Click away on eBay

I click on the eBay listing for the historic Downtown area of Grantville, Georgia. “Add to cart” for $680,000, a “unique opportunity” but “may not ship to France”. Crumbs. Anyone else interested? It’s not everyday you find 9 buildings on 40,000 square feet of a downtown historic district up for sale on eBay, but then again, the…

The Floating Straw Islands of Uros: An Ancient Tribe Surviving in a Tourist Hub

Once again, today the internet has taken me to a place no geography or history ever did. Floating out into the middle of the Lake Titicaca between Peru and Bolivia, figures are seemingly drifting amongst the reeds and mythical creatures guarding what look like islands made of straw on the water… (c) Suzanne Preston (c) KeelyNYC On my internet wanderings,…

The Ghost Army of WWII that Duped Hitler

This is not a photograph of a strong man contest. That tank weighs about as much as an inflatable dingy. But what were World War II U.S soldiers doing clowning around with a blow-up tank? Actually, there was nothing funny about it; these were the brave men of a unique secret mission to intimidate and deceive…

Paris Then & Now: A City on the Edge of Freedom

Being able to walk around Paris with window vision into the past is probably up there with my top three wishes. A Parisian photographer and art director, Julien Knez, made it a reality with his remarkable before & after overlays. Tracking down the exact location of vintage photographs taken in the 1940s, Knez gives us a glimpse into Paris on…

No Animals were Harmed in the Making of this Film, 70 People Were.

Three years ago, I published an article about a photo story I’d found hiding away deep in the LIFE archives. I saw it spread like wildfire on the internet; jaw-dropping photographs of Tippi Hedren and her family living with full-grown lions, including her daughter, a young Melanie Griffith who is the little girl pictured lying in bed with a…

The Secret Playboy Mansion Tunnels that led to the Hollywood Homes of Celebrity Casanovas

The editorial staff at Playboy.com recently revealed that they have discovered a bunch of dusty old blueprints, plans and photographs in an unfinished basement area of the Playboy Mansion, which unveil a network of underground tunnels that allegedly once linked Hefner’s notorious bachelor’s pad to the homes of “Mr. J. Nicholson,” “Mr. W. Beatty,” “Mr. K. Douglas” and “Mr.…

For Sale! A 1960s New York Mets Baseball Car to Zip Around in this Summer

There is very little I know about the sport of baseball. What I do know however, is that we all need one of these giant baseball-shaped “bullpen” cars to run ourselves down to the beach this summer… “A fantastic example of whimsical Major League Baseball marketing from the late 1960s,” used intermittently for legendary World Series games at…

Ass-Whooping Women in Skirts in the 1930s

Just in time for the weekend (in case us damsels happen to lose our way down a dark alley), here’s some footage from British Pathé archives of a young woman in 1933 giving a real vintage ass-whooping using some Judo and Jujitsu moves. The video titled “The Weaker Sex! (Sayest Thou!) Who said “weaker sex?”, sees a highly entertaining Miss May…

The Reindeer Riders

If the descendants of ancient legends truly exist among us today, these are they. Despite the odds, the nomads of Outer Mongolia are a people seemingly immune from degeneration, still living in such proximity to wild animals with a certain spiritual wisdom, sense of healing and well-being lost to our notions of time and laws…

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