During the Scramble for Africa in the 19th century, there were so many atrocities committed that you will be forgiven if you aren't familiar with The Jameson Affair. In fact, most of the horrific events of those years we...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/04/James-Sligo-Jameson-An-Incident-of-Cannibalism/In 1946, renowned author Lin Yutang filed a patent for a typewriter that printed Chinese characters. This is the MingKwai typewriter, with a reasonable number of keys. By pressing two keys, eight characters from thousand...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/04/An-Old-Typewriter-Turned-Out-to-Be-a-Priceless-One-of-a-kind/Thirteenth Century Gothic cathedrals expressed a golden age of stained glass. Film photography, some historians argue, reached its zenith in the 1930s through the 1950s. For every medium, there is a time when human creat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/04/Take-a-Bite-from-the-Jaws-Popcorn-Bucket/Fast Company reports on an epoch-defining technological development: the self-propelled zipper. YKK, the Japanese firm that is the largest zipper manufacturer in the world with possession of about 40% of the global marke...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/04/Invention-The-Self-Propelled-Zipper/I just learned about Pub Choir from an unrelated video at kottke. Pub Choir is an Australian project led by Astrid Jorgensen where people go and learn to sing popular songs in three-part harmony. They describe it as an "...
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