In 1920, author J.R.R. Tolkien's oldest child, John, was three years old. He asked his father about Father Christmas, and Tolkien was glad to answer his questions. When John wrote a letter to Santa, Tolkien wrote a short...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/13/When-JRR-Tolkien-was-Father-Christmas/If you are in the armed forces and decide not to obey an order from a superior, you'd better be pretty darn sure you are right, or else are willing to pay the price for insubordination. In most cases, you'd be punished a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/13/Soldiers-Who-Disobeyed-Orders-and-Changed-History/Every year for ten years now, redditor kakalacky_guy has designed and produced a Christmas card that shows us the chaos of celebrating Christmas as a family. His 2023 card shows he and his wife and three children attempt...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/13/Ten-Years-of-Christmas-Cards-Featuring-Family-Shenanigans/<p>There are many inspiring words that came from famous people of history or characters in a film, and many statements that we often quote to this day. We are familiar with statements like, "<em>...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/13/Badass-Quotes-from-Historical-Figures/We often think about the Middle Ages as the period when people swam in squalor and filth. Those may have been influenced by historical events like the Black Death and depictions of that time in movies or TV shows. Howeve...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/13/The-Surprising-Hygiene-Practices-of-Medieval-People/The closest thing to a film noir that I have watched is the 1995 crime thriller Seven which featured Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, and Kevin Spacey. It left a weird impression on me, to say the least.I liked the pl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/13/11-Must-See-Film-Noir-Movies/For over 1,000 years, the Kokusekiji temple in Oshu, Iwate Prefecture, has been holding their annual hadaka matsuri or "naked festival" every winter. Although it's called a "naked festival", very rarely are the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/13/Kokusekiji-Temple-Will-Hold-Last-Naked-Festival-Next-Year/<p>Days before Japan surrendered to the Allied Forces, many Japanese people, who had previously been brought to Manchuria as part of the Japanese government's plans of conquering China and cultivating the r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/13/The-Stories-of-Japanese-Orphans-Raised-by-Chinese-Locals/<p>Theoretically, the chances that heads or tails will come up when we toss a coin should be equal. That is, if we were to toss a coin 100 times, the outcomes for either heads or tails should be 50/50. <...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/13/Coin-Flips-Aren-t-Exactly-50-50/
