21 November 2010

Ancient Greek "dribble glass"

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"...this cup, credited to Pythagoras of Samos, works fine if you fill it no higher than the dotted line. If you add more, the liquid s...

Trying to reanimate corpses

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Aldini attempted to revive the body of a murderer, one Thomas Forster, by the application of electrical charges six hours after he had been ...

"Heaviest bowling team in America", 1911

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Found at Black and WTF .
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A "human orrery"

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The young John Keats remembered an organized game at his school in Enfield, in which all the boys whirled round the playground in a huge cho...
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A curious orientation of the banisters

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"Pender County, North Carolina. Sloop Point at Hampstead. House over 200 years old." Found at Shorpy .
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Mastectomy without anaesthesia

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Frances Burney , an English novelist and diarist, transcribed her experience undergoing a mastectomy for breast cancer in the era before ana...
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Collar necklace, Afghanistan, first century

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"From a tomb in Tillia Tepe, Afghanistan." Found in The Ancient World , via La Muse Verte .
19 November 2010

Lithium in 7-Up

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Everyone knows that Coca-Cola was originally formulated to contain cocaine.  I didn't know that 7-Up contained lithium. ... lithium was...

The Woolworth sit-in (1963)

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Our Woolworth Sit-In, Jackson Mississippi, 5/28/63 was the most violently attacked sit-in of the '60s and the most publicized . Involv...
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A terrible omission of a comma

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This grammatical error is in a tragic story about a young woman who was paralyzed just before her wedding.  I certainly don't want to ma...

The "stacking room" in an opium factory

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These two lithographs by W. S. Sherwill show an opium factory in Patna, India, in about 1850. This series of prints shows the different sta...

Throwing dough around

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YouTube link.   "This is an Indian dish named 'Parotta'. The man makes it flat and throws it to the cook who will cook i...
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Where does the Chamber of Commerce get its money?

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From membership fees by small businesses?   Well, not exactly... The U.S. Chamber of Commerce astonished even the most jaded Washington-wat...
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3-year-old boy finds £2.5m treasure

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A three-year-old boy using a metal detector for the first tim e has unearthed a gold pendant estimated to be worth over £2.5m. James Hyatt m...

Cannery worker filling tuna cans, ~1930

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It wasn't always done by machine.  This lady appears to be stuffing the cans with her bare fingers. From the Flickr photostream of the...