We think of Lucille Ball as the queen of television -after all, she had four TV series with her name in the title. But before I Love Lucy, she was a model, a dancer, and a movie actress. In the 1940s, she had a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/06/13/Why-Lucille-Ball-Got-Into-Television/This is not a skit, but just a straightforward version of the Star Trek: The Next Generation main theme by a bluegrass band, featuring Gordon Lustig on his five-string banjo, guitar, and mandolin as well. Lustig...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/06/13/iStar-Trek-The-Next-Generationi-Theme-Played-Bluegrass-Style/Princess Natalia Pavlovna Paley was the granddaughter of Tsar Alexander II and first cousin of Tsar Nicholas II. Born in 1905 in Paris, her exiled family moved back to Russia just a few years before the revolution. After...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/06/13/The-Princess-Who-Escaped-Russia-and-Became-a-Fashion-Model/Smoking tobacco used to be a completely mainstream activity. When I was in high school in the 90s, teachers had their own smoke-filled lounge. There was also an area of the campus known as the "gravel pit" where students...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/06/13/Get-Water-That-Tastes-Like-Cigarettes/The LOTI Pencil is an enormous public sculpture on the shore of the Lake of the Isles, Minnesota. It's on the lawn of a historic mansion and made from an oak tree that fell in 2017. In 2022, artist Curtis Ingolstad shape...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/06/13/The-Annual-Sharpening-of-a-20-Foot-Tall-Pencil-in-Minnesota/
