For most of the first half of her life, Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten lived in obscurity, outside the life of fame. But during her childhood years, she had been a lover of music and instruments. This she car...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/21/The-American-Folk-Legend-Who-Won-A-Grammy-at-93/Ganbreeder is a web toy that will remix photos until they are terrifying. Select a creature (or an inanimate object; they don't care) and crossbreed it with other creatures. You can take a sea slug and "mix in genes" fro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/21/Breed-Your-Own-Mutants-with-Ganbreeder/I'm ashamed to say that I remember just about every one of [these things.](https://flashbak.com/monster-stuff-for-kids-vintage-horror-comic-magazine-adverts-367584/) Vampira was after my time....
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/21/Vintage-Horror-Comic-Magazine-Advertisements-from-the-1960-s-1970-s/Is it ash or soot? What's the black snow that has blanketed Siberia? Well, it's actually [coal dust mixed with the air and the snow](https://www.sciencealert.com/siberia-is-being-covered-in-a-thick-blanket-of-bla...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/21/Black-Snow-Falls-on-Siberia/Cats don't seem to understand [the concepts of personal space or privacy.](https://welovecatsandkittens.com/cat-pictures/cats-that-dont-care-about-your-personal-space/) When they want attention, they want it NOW....
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/21/18-Cats-That-Like-to-Violate-Personal-Space/Britain's 99-year lease on Hong Kong was up in 1997, but it's not easy to integrate a British colony into the larger China. You might recall the fireworks at the handover, but there was a lot more involved in the celebra...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/21/The-Hong-Kong-Handover/Karl Lagerfeld, the creative director of the fashion empire Chanel, passed away Tuesday at age 85. He left behind his beloved companion Choupette, an 8-year-old red point Birman cat. Choupette has a modeling career...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/21/Karl-Lagerfelds-Cat-to-Inherit-Part-of-His-Fortune/Ze Frank has another edition of the delicious and ridiculous True Facts series, this one about various species of lemur. These relatively small primates are both amusing and endangered. Warning: contains potty humor and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/21/True-Facts-The-Lemur/You know all those movie scenes where the main characters walk away from a huge explosion? How accurate could that possibly be? And how about that time Indiana Jones hid in a refrigerator to survive a nuclear blast? Colu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/21/Explosives-Expert-Rates-Movie-Explosions/The only thing most of us know about the German airship called the Hindenburg is that it caught fire in 1937, a disaster that was recorded on film with the announcer proclaiming "Oh, the humanity!" The Hinde...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/21/Why-Flying-On-The-Hindenburg-Zeppelin-Was-So-Expensive/You've probably never thought of it, but potatoes are a big part of our language. If you're a meat-and-potatoes type of guy who likes to veg out, you might be a couch potato. If you post a poor quality picture on the int...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/21/Hot-Small-or-Couch-Why-Potatoes-Make-Great-Idioms/The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual as well as the Structured Clinical Interview for the DSM are some ways on how to diagnose a patient's mental health and if they suffer from mental disorders. It's not really...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/21/A-Discourse-on-How-We-Diagnose-Mental-Disorders/Over the past several decades, China has grown exponentially to become the economic powerhouse that it is today and has given its leader such immense power on the global stage. [Of course, China had once been on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/21/The-Discourse-on-Chinese-Socialism/Anyone that can remember 1969 will be taken back in history with these photos of the first Moon landing, Woodstock, the Vietnam war and much more...[Source](https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2019/02/1969-photos-looking-b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/21/Old-Enough-To-Be-Around-Fifty-Years-Ago-A-Look-Back-At-1969-in-Photos/Ernest Borgnine, A-list actor and winner of the 1955 Academy Award for Best Actor, shocked the celebrity world when it was announced in 1962 that he had signed a contract to be the lead in a new TV comedy sitcom,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/02/21/McHale-s-Navy-1962-1966/Trying to paint a picture of a socialist America is like looking at a Jackson Pollock. You have to be able to pick apart the pieces and individual elements that make up the whole movement to get to a more defined...
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