Along with fireworks, parades, and picnics, another Independence Day tradition is Nathan's Famous July Fourth Hot Dog Eating Contest, held annually since 1916. This year’s competition will pit new world record h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/04/the-mustard-belt/John Trumbull's Declaration of Independence [wiki] | Key to Painting [Flash]1. There Was No "United States" in the Declaration of Independence.When the Founding Fathers adopted "The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/04/5-obscure-facts-about-the-declaration-of-independence/For those who are tired of hearing their friends going ga-ga over the iPhone, but are too cheap to shell out $500 for a phone (or if you live in Vermont), I present to you something you can make for about $2 - behold,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/04/itoid-the-iphone-altoid/We've posted some strange clouds before on Neatorama (like this one). Here's another one: Butterfly Hole punch Cloud, caused by falling ice crystals. Hole-punch clouds or fall-streak holes, such as the ones shown abo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/04/butterfly-hole-punch-clouds/From Modern Mechanix blog, here's something strange from the 30s: they put rose-colored glasses on chickens to prevent them from fighting!Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/04/chicken-goggles-prevent-fighting/High school craftster Reagan Copeland wrote a neat little how-to make your very own Batman underwear wallet (just make sure it's clean, mmkay?)Link - Thanks Vikram!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/04/diy-batman-underwear-wallet/Photo Credit: Rochelle Buffenstein / City College of New YorkHere's birth control, queen naked mole-rat style:In African naked mole-rat colonies, the queen is the only reproducing female—a feat she accomplishes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/04/naked-mole-rats-birth-control-method-infertility-through-intimidation/First they killed off Captain America, then Ron English of Supertouch created this: a "dissection" of Captain America:Catching up with Supertouch’s own RON ENGLISH in his Jersey studio, we got a first...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/04/dissected-captain-america-by-ron-english/If you thought Google Maps was everywhere already, you ain’t seen nothin' yet! In honor of the first manned Moon landing, which took place on July 20, 1969, we’ve added some NASA imagery to the Googl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/03/google-moon-2/Sweden has found another way to recycle. Almost all alcoholic drinks smuggled into Sweden illegally that the government seizes are now turned into biogas to run public vehicles. Last year 700,000 liters (184,000 US gallo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/03/sweden-recycles-contraband-alcohol/The FuelVapor alé is a sportscar with three wheels, but two of them are in the front! It runs on fuel vapor instead of liquid gas, so it uses about one-third the normal amount of fuel for a car of its kind, supposed...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/03/fuelvapor-ale/"Enlarged" Game & Watch (Image Credit: benklinger [Flickr])This is definitely the coolest thing I've seen in a long time! Flickr user benklinger has a neat set of photos of "enlargements" - basica...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/03/industrial-design-fun-enlargements-of-everyday-objects/We've had a post on the Star Trek parody of those ubiquitous motivational posters before - here's another one: Link - Thanks Gary! (Or you can make your own.)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/03/star-trek-motivational-poster-parody/"Dracula's Castle" in Transylvania is up for sale: The Bran Castle, perched on a cliff near Brasov in mountainous central Romania, is a top tourist attraction because of its ties to Prince Vlad the Impaler,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/03/draculas-castle-for-sale/From COLOURlovers, here's a neat article on 13 color legends. For instance, take the origin of envy as a green monster:Color associations vary greatly from culture to culture, just as each language or dialect has uni...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/03/color-legends-green-with-envy/Sark, the smallest of the Channel Islands, is the last bastion of feudalism in Europe. Rob Crossan of the Guardian writes:Nobody has tried to change things on Sark for some time. Its arcane system dates back t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/03/sark-at-the-crossroads/You've heard of Plymouth Rock, right? It is the site where the Mayflower Pilgrims landed to establish a colony which later led to the formation of the United States.But did you know that Plymouth Rock is actuall...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/03/plymouth-rock-americas-saddest-monument/Hit play or go to Link [YouTube]Here's a cutesy ad by H5 for Canadian French energy company Areva. Very similar to the famous Röyksopp's Remind Me music video (why, produced by the same people!).And of course, the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/03/nuclear-power-ad-by-h5/Mobile home of a guy who really, really like Dish TV? Nah, that's TARA or Transportable Atmospheric Radar), which is used to get over 200 premium channels .... er, in weather research.http://www.tudelft.nl/live/pagina.js...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/03/the-ultimate-satellite-dish-for-your-mobile-home/Alan Weisman, an associate professor of journalism at the University of Arizona, wrote a book entitled The World Without Us, imagining a scenario where all the world’s people suddenly dissapeared. What...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/03/an-earth-without-people/Dr. Serge Voronoff was a pioneer in the field of organ transplant who was lauded as a genius in the late 1800s. His experiments included grafting monkey testicles into men, monkey ovaries into women, and human ovaries in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/03/monkey-to-human-testicle-transplants/The prehistoric South American bird Argentavis magnificens had a wingspan of 23 feet! That makes this bird about the same size as a Cessna light aircraft. Scientists think Argentavis was too big and h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/03/big-bird/Read the fine print on the side of this condom package carefully. The folks who designed the box didn’t! -via Bits and Pieces...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/03/an-important-omission/A hemp field in Utting, Germany has been plowed with the image of a castle. It’s one of the many castles built by King Ludwig II of Bavaria, who obsessively built distinctive castles during his reign in the 19th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/03/hemp-field-art/This fantastic figure 8 sculpture by Japanese artist Susumu Ikegami is a symbol of financial growth, so it's fitting that it is displayed on the grounds of a tax office!Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/03/susumu-ikegamis-stone-sculptures/Rie Takahashi and Jeffrey Miller of UCLA have a project called gene2music, where they translate human genetic code into music!I won't go into the amino acid to musical note assignment - you can read it at the website or...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/03/gene2music-translating-the-genetic-code-into-music/Photo Credit: Charles JacksonUFO? No, that's a strange weather phenomenon called virga: rain that evaporates before reaching the ground.Earth Science Picture of the Day has more info: http://jedi.hq.usra.edu/archive/epod...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/03/virga-rain-that-evaporates-before-reaching-the-ground/Here's the headline from this 1950 Motorola ad touting how owning its TV will mean better grades at school for your children, keeping them out of mischief, and strengthen family ties.Larger pic here: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/03/vintage-ad-tv-will-make-you-smarter/The Kircher Society blog has a neat article about a strange collection of the Stasi, the East German secret police: One of the more bizarre activities the Stasi was found to have engaged in was the collection of Geru...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/03/smell-jars-of-the-stasi/Photo effects made by playing with light toys in a dark room, while having the shutter open. Link - via Digg...
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