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

1. Turtle Beach More than 250,000 olive ridley turtles on Playa Ostional to lay their eggs in a mass nesting known as arribada. Photo by Kent Gilbert, Corbis, found via Kateoplis. 2. A 360-Degree Bubble Lets You Ride Atop a Plane Imagine being able to, mid-flight, take an elevator or staircase up to the SkyDeck, a…

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

1. The Weirdly Awesome Micro Cars of Hungary All you need to know about these cars found on Jalopnik. 2. This News Headline The Mysterious reappearance of Flight 513, more about this dubious story here. More eye-brow raising headlines from Weekly World News here 3. Basra, Iraq, once the “Venice of the East”, Then &…

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

1. Late Victorian Mountaineers Late Victorian mountaineers, including a lady fully dressed and corseted, cross a crevasse in the Alps, 1900 (from Getty Images’ book “Decades of the 20th Century—1900s” by Nick Yapp, scanned by WeirdVintage). 2. The Perils of Wearing Crinolines on Public Transportation, 1850s In 1858, crinolines had to be hung outside public transportation to get aboard.…

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

1. A Vast, Private Collection of Tiny Folk-Art by Unknown Artisans Few know exactly what to call the collection of Americana that fills Steven Burke and Randy Campbell’s Greek Revival compound that fills Steven Burke and Randy Campbell’s Greek Revival compound in Hillsborough, N.C. “Neither common nor rare, they have never taken shape as a category…

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

1. Enjoying a round of mini-golf on the roof of the Seneca Hotel, 1930 The Seneca, 200 E Chestnut,Chicago, is now an apartment building. Found on Calumet 412. 2. This is how Jeeps were shipped during WW2 (Some assembly required). Some great additional reading found here, images found on Reddit and this forum, and…

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

1. This used to be the richest silver mine in the world Silver Islet refers to both a small rocky island and a small community located at the tip of the Sibley Peninsula in northwestern Ontario, Canada. A rich vein of pure silver was discovered on this small island in 1868 by the Montreal Mining Company. The islet…

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

1. The Bus that Fell into the Seine On the 27th September, 1911, a speeding city bus trying to avoid hitting a crossing pedestrian, swerved and then swerved again to avoid another bus before finally bursting through the frail iron barriers of the Pont de l’Archeveche and plunging into the river Seine. From an article…

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

1. The Tale of the Seven Sutherland Sisters and Their 37 Feet of Hair “Their antics and wild, over-the-top parties were the talk of Niagara County”. Read their story found on Collector’s Weekly. 2. A Ouija Coffee Table and Rug “For geeks who enjoy occult-themed fare like Supernatural and Buffy, and can also afford to…

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

1. Ads on Wheels At one point in the history of Italian advertisement, huge cutouts in the shape of bottles and canned meat started appearing on car roofs; there were shoes and tubes of toothpaste, odd torpedoes, and sharks. They were the “advertisement vehicles” that invaded Italian streets in the 1950s and 1960s, to promote…

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

1. Having a BBQ on top of a moving Submarine Redditor shanbuscus found a photo of his dad on top of HMAS Onslow, a diesel submarine operated by Australia’s navy from 1968 to 1999. The boat is now on display and open to visitors at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney. Found on Reddit …