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posted 22 March, 2013
by cranberryzero - reblogged from mediaite
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This is a real thing that happened in medieval Europe, and this is an actual animated gif created during that time.
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posted 22 March, 2013
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Jeff Bezos recovers an Apollo rocket from the bottom of the Atlantic
Amazon founder and space travel startup entrepreneur Jeff Bezos recently completed a fishing expedition in the Atlantic, where he managed to pull up an old, rusty rocket that had been sitting on the seafloor since 1969, when they were jettisoned from the rocket that took Neil Armstrong and co to the moon.
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posted 20 March, 2013
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London rail project unveils a medieval bubonic plague graveyard in the middle of the city
A section of rail project for the London Crossrail had to be halted when archaeologists discovered a huge cache of ancient human skeletons that seem to be a hastily put-together body pit for victims of the Black Death around 1349. There could be as many as 50,000 individuals scattered across the site.
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posted 17 March, 2013
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Morning EPIC RAP BATTLE OF HISTORY: Tesla vs Edison
The sparks fly when the masters of 20th century invention try to settle some scores through rhyme.
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posted 13 March, 2013
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Doctor Who’s most wanted lost episode comes back to life, then dies again, then comes back to life
Reconstructing some of the early episodes of Doctor Who has been a full-time archaeological expedition for many diehard Who fans. Many of the episodes from the first few seasons were lost completely due to neglect, but in the 1960s, before the VCR, many people in the UK would record audio from their favorite shows to listen to later. And it’s from these old audio tapes that many of the lost Doctor Who episodes have been reconstructed and animated.
But one episode in particular has been elusive, and that’s the episode where the first Doctor, played by William Hartnell, regenerates into the second Doctor, played by Patrick Troughton. The episode has been fully reconstructed and this is just a snippet. The full thing will be released on a DVD compilation later this year.
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posted 12 March, 2013
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Interview with Ralph Baer, inventor of the first video game console
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posted 11 March, 2013
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Researchers may have found a fabled Viking sunstone
If you’ve caught the first couple episodes of the History Channel drama, ‘Vikings’, you’ll know that Ragnor uses a “sunstone” he procured from a traveler to chart the sun’s course, even during thick, overcast days. Archaeologists may have discovered such a fabled stone in the wreck of an old Viking ship at the bottom of the English Channel.
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posted 10 March, 2013
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The town in Argentina that was under water for 25 years
Twenty five years ago, a village near Lake Epecuan was completely submerged when a rock and earth dam burst. This year, the waters finally receded enough to dry the whole place out and what’s left is a weird, post-apocalyptic looking place.
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posted 05 March, 2013
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The American government’s advice for yeti hunters in 1959
In 1953, when Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the peak of Everest, they reported seeing large human-like tracks in the snow that many interpreted to have been left by the legendary yeti. Just in case it existed, in 1959, the US government issued official guidelines to anyone in Nepal who might want to hunt the mysterious beast.
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posted 27 February, 2013
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Everything you’ve wanted to know about the real life fake ‘Argo’ movie from 1980
In Ben Affleck’s Oscar-winning film ‘Argo’, the plot revolves around a real life CIA operation from 1980 in which six American hostages are rescued from Iran under the disguise of being part of a Canadian film crew doing a location scout for a movie also called ‘Argo’. The story is true, and so was the movie… well, the script was real.
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posted 26 February, 2013
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Know your awesome engineers of history: Charles Proteus Steinmetz
The great mathematician and engineer Charles Proteus Steinmetz, a contemporary of Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison stood only four feet tall and was crippled and bent by kyphosis but was a giant in his field. One day, when Henry Ford’s, electrical engineers couldn’t solve a problems they were having with a gigant generator,Ford called Steinmetz. Upon arriving, Steinmetz rejected all assistance and asked only for a notebook, pencil and cot. Steinmetz listened to the generator and scribbled computations on the notepad for two straight days and nights. On the second night, he asked for a ladder, climbed up the generator and made a chalk mark on its side. Then he told Ford’s skeptical engineers to remove a plate at the mark and replace sixteen windings from the field coil. They did, and the generator performed to perfection.
Henry Ford was thrilled until he got an invoice in the amount of $10,000. Ford acknowledged Steinmetz’s success but balked at the figure. He asked for an itemized bill.
Steinmetz responded personally to Ford’s request with the following:
Making chalk mark on generator $1.
Knowing where to make mark $9,999.
Ford paid the bill.
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posted 22 February, 2013
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The first known photo of a guy flipping the middle finger (Back row, far left)
Group picture, Boston Beaneaters and New York Giants, Major League Baseball Opening Day 1886. Charles Radbourn giving the finger to cameraman (back row, far left).
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posted 20 February, 2013
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Mark Twain was a total badass. Exhibit A.
Oh hello there, Mark Twain, you shirtless hunk. Perhaps, after all, Twain wasn’t talking just about the art of writing when he advised to “employ a simple and straightforward style.”
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posted 19 February, 2013
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Thanks to the movie ‘Lincoln’, Mississippi finally ratifies the 13th amendment
In 1865, the 13th amendment outlawing slavery was enacted, meaning that it was illegal across the US to own, possess or buy and sell human beings. But just because it was federal law, the amendment wasn’t ratified by all the states. For Mississipi, it took late last year, reminded by the film ‘Lincoln’, to officially ratify the 13th amendment. Welcome to the 19th century.
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posted 18 February, 2013
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