How Are You Feeling Today?
Just in case you weren’t feeling too old today. The people who are starting college this fall were born in 1990. They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up. Their lifetime has always included AIDS. The CD was introduced two years before they were born. They have always had an answering machine. […]
Reason to Drink
If you were around in 1919 (just before prohibition started) and came upon the following poster….. ll ll ll ll ll ll ll ll ll ll ll ll ll ll ll ll ll V I mean, seriously, would you really quit drinking? This is enough to make me START again !!!
Earth Day Predictions of 1970
Source: Reason.com Here are some of the spectacularly wrong predictions made on the occasion of Earth Day 1970. “We have about five more years at the outside to do something.” Kenneth Watt, ecologist “Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.” George Wald, Harvard Biologist “We […]
From a Friend
It is my privilege to introduce you to some of the work of Master Ludovit Feld from our collection, whom I had the opportunity to know during his lifetime in Kosice, Kassa Slovakia. It is only appropriate to share such a powerful testimony captured by this giant of an artist, so small in height. Picture […]
When America Was (Also) a Free Country…
Bayer’s Heroin A bottle of Bayer’s heroin. Between 1890 and 1910 heroin was sold as a non-addictive substitute for morphine. It was also used to treat children with strong cough. Coca Wine, anyone? Metcalf Coca Wine was one of a huge variety of wines with cocaine on the market. Everybody used to say that it […]
11 Scientists Killed or Injured by Their Own Experiments
All of the scientists on this list died or were injured in their pursuit of knowledge. Many of their sacrifices paved the way for some of the greatest discoveries and inventions known to mankind. What can we learn from these explorers of years gone by? Gaining knowledge often comes with a price … but without […]
The Statue of Liberty under construction – remarkable photographs
The New York Public Library has recently unveiled some extraordinary pictures of the Statue of Liberty under construction. Take a trip back in time and see extraordinary behind the scenes images of the creation of this superlative structure. A giant is formed. The sheer scale of the statue under construction can be seen here, in […]
The Great Escape Graphics
In 1943 work had begun on ‘Harry’, the tunnel that allowed over 70 men to escape from the German POW camp, ‘Stalag III’, during World War II.. This was the same tunnel made famous by the movie “The Great Escape..” The URL below takes you to a site where one of the men, after the […]
History Mystery
Have a history teacher explain this—– if they can. Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946. Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860. John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960. Both were particularly concerned with civil rights. Both wives lost their children while living […]
