The summer solstice, the longest daylight of the year, is coming up on Tuesday. Our calendars mark it as the beginning of summer, no matter that we've been suffering from the heat for weeks already. Still, the solstice i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2022/06/16/How-Europeans-Celebrate-Midsummer/Étienne-Jules Marey was a cardiologist and a scientist, but he ended up being a pioneer in photography and cinematography, too. Marey was always looking for data, and to get it he invented several instruments to m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2022/06/16/1894-The-First-Cat-Video/In a mere seven years, between 1346 and 1353, the Black Death swept across Europe and parts of Asia and Africa and killed off 75–200 million people, changing the course of history. This bubonic plague pandemic is n...
https://www.neatorama.com/2022/06/16/Origin-of-the-Black-Death-Plague-Traced-to-Kyrgyzstan/The Barter Theatre building in Abingdon, Virginia dates back to at least 1876. But it got its current name during the Great Depression. When it reopened its doors under new management in 1933, guests could purchase ticke...
https://www.neatorama.com/2022/06/16/During-the-Great-Depression-You-Could-Trade-Goods-for-Tickets-at-the-Barter-Theatre/
