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... one invader at a time. Photo source LIFE archives , modified by Ryan Snieder .

The commercialization and "professionalization" of the Olympics is a phenomenon that is widely recognized and apparently grudgingl...

"This disturbing Lucky Strike ad is from 1931. After being reprimanded by the FTC for making claims that their cigarettes caused weight...

"This is the third picture of a series of the Licorne thermonuclear test in French Polynesia.  This is a scan of a (digitally restored)...

A form of yoga requiring precise control of the rectus abdominis muscles. Via Arbroath .

From a wonderful photoessay about Luna Park .  This was the Parisian one, not the one at Coney Island. The Luna Park of Paris stood at the ...

A diary written in the mid-1800s by a plantation owner in Mississippi was apparently the source William Faulkner used for the names of chara...

Bruce Anderson, a farmer in Albert Lea, Minnesota used his manure spreader to create an arrow-pierced valentine half a mile wide.  His wife ...

When Saturn's "appendages" disappeared in 1612, Galileo did not understand why. Later that century, it became understood that ...

Here are two outstanding TED talks, presented by Blaise Aguera y Arcas, "an architect at Microsoft Live Labs, architect of Seadragon,...

I watched part of Casablanca last night for the umpteenth time, and for the first time noticed a rather trivial error in the dialogue.  In ...

We didn't find him.  He found us. He appeared on our front doorstep on a late summer day in 2008, probably sensing that there were oth...

During this anniversary week of President Lincoln's birthday, many bloggers have offered hat tips to our sixteenth president.  I'll ...

An exhibit at San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art - Brought to Light: Photography and the Invisible, 1840-1900 - looked at the influence...

For ten years VH-1 presented biographies of musicians and rock groups in a series called " Behind the Music ."  They departed fro...