Imagine that, instead of going to church, the church came to you! That was the case in Philadelphia in the mid-19th century. The Seamen’s Church Institute of Philadelphia and South Jersey decided to construct a flo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/03/The-Floating-Church-of-the-Redeemer/It's not just a snack--it's an adventure!Doughnut Time is a donut shop in Brisbane, Australia. It's been very successful in its first year of operation. In fact, the business is already expanding to new locations. And to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/03/These-Extreme-Donuts-Are-Shaking-up-the-Donut-Game/[https://youtu.be/NxAoz2eE_ZM] (YouTube link)The Playgrounds is a new golf course designed for kids and families at the Bluejack National Country Club near Houston, Texas. Tiger Woods helped design the new course. He was...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/03/First-Tee-Off-at-New-Course-is-a-Hole-in-one/Are you a freelance writer? Then may I offer my condolences to you. It is a sad, difficult time in your life. But you may be able to pull through. This is simply your cross to bear, so carry it with as much dignity as yo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/03/Unsolicited-Advice-to-Freelance-Writers/Fan theories are generally to be taken with a grain of salt (unless the writers themselves are presenting this information, of course), but they're fun reads that get you thinking differently about your favorite shows.*e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/03/6-Movies-And-TV-Shows-That-Sent-The-Reverse-Of-Their-Intended-Message/Make that trench run in warmth. There's no need to endure the bleak coldness of space while giving up your life for the rebellion. MJ made these X-wing blankets to prevent that. They wrap around the lower body, so they'r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/03/Crocheted-X-Wing-Snuggies/Australia seems like a pretty magical yet dangerous place, just like most of the fantasy worlds in our favorite novels, but for someone who's actually from a fantasy world the land of Aus is pretty boring.There are no sp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/03/A-Wizard-Moves-To-Australia-To-Escape-His-Fantasy-World-In-The-Wizards-Of-Aus/The current thinking about the history of dentistry tells us that humans didn’t have many dental problems until we settled down and developed agriculture. With the rise of carbohydrates in our diets (although there...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/03/Dental-Drilling-is-Older-Than-We-Thought/1979 saw the revival of the Star Trek franchise with Star Trek: The Motion Picture. McDonald's was part of the marketing blitz. It tried to draw in kids by offering Happy Meals inspired by the movie and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/03/McDonalds-Happy-Meals-from-the-Old-Star-Trek-Movies/T-3PO by FortuneCakesWhen the Sith got ahold of that uptight protocol droid the Rebels had been using to aid their side in the war they decided it would be best to return it to the Rebels...after a few minor modificatio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/03/T-3PO-Hasta-La-Vista-Luke-Skywalker/[https://youtu.be/uXo_bYBxn7E] (YouTube link)People who have both mail slots in their doors and cats need to have a camera ready, because the combination is hilarious! This compilation of several such cats had my sides h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/03/Cats-and-Mail-Slots/(Photo: Justice Don Willett)On March 2, 1836, the founding fathers of the Republic of Texas gathered at the settlement of Washington-on-the-Brazos and declared independence from Mexico. Although we were an independent na...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/03/Krispy-Kreme-Celebrates-Texas-Independence-Day-with-1836-Donuts-Arranged-into-the-Texas-Flag/These days, it's nothing new to see glass viewing areas and sky walks, but riding a clear slide 70 stories up? That's something entirely different -and pretty nerve-wracking. But the US Bank Tower in LA is now proposing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/03/A-Glass-Slide-Set-Up-on-the-70th-Floor/(Photo: NASA)Scott Kelly, an American astronaut, recently returned to Earth after nearly a year on board the International Space Station. NASA physicians found that he's now 2 inches taller than his identical twin brothe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/03/Astronaut-Grew-2-Inches-While-in-Space-for-a-Year/[https://youtu.be/d1_AnAufknQ]YouTube LinkMax is an English cream golden retriever who knows what he likes. Namely, the pacifier that's in his mouth. You can try to take it from him all you like, but his response will be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/03/Golden-Retriever-Prefers-His-Pacifier-Without-Human-Interference-Thanks/(Photo: Indian Express)These men are candidates in the state of Bahir for the Indian Army. They were forced to strip down to their underpants prior to taking the entrance exam. The proctors hoped that this requi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/03/Army-Candidates-Take-Entrance-Exam-in-Their-Underpants-to-Prevent-Cheating/A cat café is opening this summer in Manchester, UK, to allow patrons to interact with a variety of cats. And the owners are looking for someone to fill the best job vacancy ever -a cat nanny! According to The Tel...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/03/Wanted-Cat-Nanny-for-Cat-Caf/You'd never think to describe a caveman as "ridiculously photogenic", but there's no better way to describe this rugged guy with a smug look on his face spotted by Redditor mambungalon at the Espace de l'Homme de Spy in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/03/The-Ridiculously-Photogenic-Caveman-Goes-On-Photoshop-Adventures/(Image source: hellokayley)Inspired by a reddit thread a couple of weeks ago, Buzzfeed asked readers to upload photographs of their attractive grandparents when they were young. That resulted in a gallery of stunning ima...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/03/Hot-Grandparents/(Photoof a priest hole by Quodvultdeus)When she became Queen of England in 1558, Elizabeth I ramped up the suppression of Catholicism in her country. This did not deter many Catholics from adhering to their faith pr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/03/The-Secret-Rooms-in-England-Used-to-Hide-Priests/El-Mouthy by Donovan AlexIf you thought Deadpool was screwy before wait 'til you get a load of him after being spliced with puppet DNA, because now he's not only indestructible and a loudmouth- he's full of fluff! When...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/03/El-Mouthy-Now-200-Percent-More-Annoying/The Ghostbusters trailer is here! The reboot of the 1984 movie series features four women as the team that takes on supernatural threats in New York City. It stars Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/03/The-New-Ghostbusters/[https://youtu.be/jka3nb9CGV8]YouTube LinkWhen Jimmy Kimmel sends a person out on the street to pose as a news reporter doing a story on Super Tuesday, the result is a study in second hand embarrassment. Not only are the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/03/Kimmels-Video-of-People-Lying-About-Voting-on-Super-Tuesday-is-All-Kinds-of-Pathetic/Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedian, and voiceover artist Eddie Deezen. Visit Eddie at his website or at Facebook.1) In the refrigerator: Timothy Hutton won a Best Supp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/03/14-Interesting-Places-Oscar-Winners-Kept-Their-Oscars/"Manhunt," an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, featured two characters belonging to the Antedean species. Worf referred to them as a "handsome race" -- and with reason. Beneath that makeup was Mick Fle...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/03/40-Actors-and-Celebrities-That-You-Didnt-Know-Appeared-in-Star-Trek/[https://youtu.be/S7nhygaGOmo] (YouTube link)The robot Big Dog was the first robot from Boston Dynamics we featured on Neatorama years ago. The model has been improved since then. This one is the only Big Dog in civilian...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/03/Big-Dog-vs-Little-Dog/People have been digitizing their paper files since at least the 80s, trying to ensure they aren't destroyed either by accident or on purpose and making sure they're around for the rest of our digitally enhanced lives.Bu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/03/New-Tunnels-Cant-Be-Built-In-Brussels-Because-Mice-Ate-Master-Plans/The 1987 movie Raising Arizona was the Coen Brothers’ second movie and first comedy. And it was a riot. Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter can’t produce children, so they kidnap one from a set of quintupl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/03/10-Law-Abiding-Facts-About-Raising-Arizona/In the article highlighted here, seven people who travel for their livelihoods are asked the following question: "What’s the scariest or worst thing to ever happen to you while traveling? How do you suggest others...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/03/Seven-Professional-Travelers-Share-Their-Travel-Horror-Stories/
