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

1. The largest Christian church in the Middle East The Monastery of Saint Simon: The Zabbaleen (meaning literally “garbage people”) village at the base of the Mokattam cliffs began around 1969 when the Cairo governor decided to move all of the garbage collectors to a single settlement. The garbage collectors were largely Coptic Christians and as their numbers…

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

1. NYC’s Incredible Hidden Gem Hidden in plain sight, book lovers have lived in New York City for years without discovering it…. “The outside may not look like much, but the inside of New York City’s Morgan Library and Museum is like something you’d find in a much-older European town. It was originally the private collection…

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

1. 500 years of walking up the marble stairs of The Leaning Tower of Pisa. Found on Reddit 2. Inside the Penn Station Lost & Found Tucked away in the labyrinth of Penn Station is a window you won’t notice until you need it. Behind it there are tequila bottles, laptops, electric guitars,…

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

1. Baghdad, Iraq, 1965 Not the South of France. Here’s a current photo of the bridge in the background… Found on Reddit. 2. The Isolator The Isolator is a bizarre helmet invented in 1925 that encourages focus and concentration by rendering the wearer deaf, piping them full of oxygen, and limiting their vision…

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

1. The Highly Questionable Advertisements of Newport, 1970s-80s “Alive with pleasure!” adverts that were in magazines everywhere in the 70s and 80s, found on Vintage Everyday. 2. The Museum of Endangered Sounds Yep, a place on the internet where sounds made famous by my favorite old technologies and electronics equipment are being preserved. Click…

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

1. The Secret Apartment in the Eiffel Tower Now I know I’m that last one you’d expect to be recommending a trip up the almighty tower of mass tourism, but even I didn’t know about this… Within a year of the completion of the Eiffel Tower, it was reported by writer Henri Girard that Gustav…

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

1. The Original Batmobile you never Knew Existed is up For Sale The 1956 Oldsmobile 88, the first car DC Comics ever licensed, now for sale in an upcoming Heritage Auction in Dallas…. Here’s the history: What is believed to be the world’s first car that became an officially licensed Batmobile was conceived and customized starting…

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

1. A Melting Wax House Artist Alex Chinneck, who created the sliding house, upside-down house, and the floating piazza in Covent Garden, has unveiled his latest creation – a two-storey house made almost entirely from wax. Using 8,000 wax brick, Chinneck built the house on Southwark Street in London, where it will gradually melt over…

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

1. Sophia Loren making Pizza cira 1950s, photographer unknown found on Felina Von Crop 2. Last House Standing Photographs by Ben Marcin of Baltimore, Philadelphia and New Jersey, full photostory here. 3. Vino Loco Creative agency LOLA Madrid is the behind the creative straitjacket packaging of Vino Loco, a “crazy” white wine produced by Bodegas…

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

1. Smokin’ Garciela It’s possible you may have seen this face before, perhaps in a photo album of someone that travelled to Cuba. This is the famous cigar lady from Havana, Garciela, in her late 80’s. She lets tourists take photographs of her for a few pesos. Found on the Flickr group, Smokin Garciela …