One thing the Beatles and the Rolling Stones had in common, besides both being superstar British bands beginning in the 1960s, is that both bands and their individual members had plenty of iconic album covers we all reco...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/06/An-Album-Cover-Battle-Between-the-Beatles-and-the-Rolling-Stones/Longtime Neatorama readers are familiar with PJ McQuade's pop culture Christmas cards and ornaments, featuring characters from Star Wars, Twin Peaks, Jaws, Labyrinth, The Neverending Story, and other movies and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/06/PJ-McQuades-Expanded-Line-of-Pop-Culture-Christmas-Cards-and-Ornaments/The Jewish a cappella group Six13 (previously at Neatorama) always has a new parody for each holiday with lyrics that explain the celebration set to popular music. Chanukah/Hanukkah begins on Thursday evening and runs th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/06/A-Chanukah-Medley-Set-to-the-Tunes-of-Taylor-Swift/<p>There are a few hits that we hear every year whenever this season rolls around the corner, and Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You" has been the anthem, so to speak, of the Christma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/06/Brenda-Lee-s-Rockin-Around-the-Christmas-Tree-Tops-Billboard-100-for-the-First-Time-in-Forever/<p>Every language has its own idioms, expressions, and proverbs that sound weird when you translate them directly into English. And Finnish has some hilarious ones, which <a href="https://www.instag...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/06/Hilarious-Finnish-Words-and-Expressions/<p>At some point, we were all gullible children. When I was about 4 years old, I was led to believe that my cousin's doll was like the possessed one from the movies (Chucky), and I couldn't use the bathroom...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/06/28-Things-We-Misunderstood-As-Children/<p>It was created by 80s Nostalgia on Threads, which is an Instagram app that somewhat functions like the old Twitter or Tumblr. <a href="https://www.threads.net/@80snostalgia/post/CzpPPuxNgDj"...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/06/This-Text-Based-Adventure-Game-is-Adorable/<p>It's not really a competition, more like a caveat about the creatures that pose a threat to humans still. We're not including bacteria or viruses here, but <a href="https://www.worldatlas.com/ani...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/06/Top-Human-Killing-Animals-Every-Year-Ranked/<p>Since the advent of herbicides in the 1940s, many farmers have opted to use chemicals to ward pests off of their crops. Nowadays, we know the harmful effects of herbicides to our health. But, nobody want...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/06/Robots-Help-Farmers-Get-Rid-of-Weeds-in-Their-Fields/It's common among Christians to include a nativity scene in their Christmas decorations, depicting Mary, Joseph, and the baby Jesus. Many also include the shepherds, the three wise men, and/or an angel, along with camels...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/05/Cultural-Variations-on-Christmas-Nativity-Scenes/This is the image that captured photographer Tara Lilly the title of International Wedding Photographer of the Year for 2023. Mikaela and Mitch got married in the great outdoors of Whistler, British Columbia. A bird call...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/05/The-International-Wedding-Photographer-of-the-Year-Winners/Ulysses S. Grant led the Union Army to victory in the Civil war, and later became president. Grant was raised in an abolitionist family, but wasn't forced to attend church and remained mostly apolitical before the war. T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/05/US-Grants-Complicated-Relationship-with-Slavery/<p>That was the question posed by an anonymous reader to the folks at Grammarphobia. This person noticed how, in old movies (pre-1950s), people used to say that they would be stopping at a hotel, but these...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/05/When-Did-We-Stop-Stopping-at-Hotels-and-Start-Staying/I'm sure everybody has at least watched a video or read an article about tips on getting good sleep, or advice on how to cure insomnia. I read articles which talked about tricks that supposedly helped anyone to sleep any...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/05/The-Myths-and-Truths-Behind-Good-Sleep/Public toilets often have a negative reputation of being dingy and uncomfortable. But there are some places in the world where the condition of public toilets are decent and acceptable. And then there are public toilets...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/05/Uredd-Rest-Area-The-World-s-Most-Beautiful-Public-Toilet/<p>Stanley Schtinter, an artist and the author of a new book titled <em>Last Movies</em>, was curious to find out <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/nov/28/movies-stars-saw-j...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/05/The-Last-Movies-Famous-People-Saw-Before-They-Died/Benjamin Breen of Res Obscura has been researching the different uses of AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude (from Anthropic), and as an enthusiast of demonology manuals, he decided to challenge the LLMs to translate a page...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/05/AI-Translates-Defense-Against-the-Dark-Arts-Demonology-Manual/<p>Since Spotify has this annual tradition of curating the top songs that users have played throughout the year, and presenting it in a "Best Of" collection format, they have transformed the data...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/05/Songs-People-in-Your-City-Are-Listening-to/Embed from Getty ImagesEven if you've never seen the holiday staple The Nutcracker, you recognize the music by Tchaikovsky. Every community that stages the ballet gives an opportunity to dozens of young dancer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/04/Some-Background-Facts-About-iThe-Nutcrackeri/When you watch a movie in a language you don't speak, do you look for a dubbed version, or do you turn on the subtitles? It makes a difference, because teams who dub movies into another language translate it completely s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/04/The-Differences-Between-Dubbed-Movies-and-Subtitles-Movies/Some of the most recognizable quotes you hear are not really quotes. Abraham Lincoln never said, "You can't believe everything you read on the internet," and Gandalf never said, "May the Force be with you," despite...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/04/Catchphrases-That-Never-Happened/<p>Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks are rife with illustrations of anatomy, physiology, inventions, and engineering sketches that show his observations and preoccupations on the subjects. But apart from those,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/04/To-Do-Lists-Written-by-Da-Vinci/There are so many astounding feats that the 26th President of the United States is often cited for. Some of those include The Square Deal, the building of the Panama Canal, trust busting, railroad rate regulation, and th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/04/Teddy-Roosevelt-s-Seldom-Mentioned-Record-as-President/<p>A global collaboration of scientists from different countries including the US, the UK, Canada, Norway, Sweden, and Italy, have found paleontological hints that point to <a href="https://thedebri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/04/What-Really-Killed-the-Dinosaurs-2/Most of our computers and other devices use digital processors to transmit data. Throughout the decades, we have leaned toward digital because it's more flexible and much easier to program. However, the company Aspi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/04/Analog-Processors-May-Be-the-Future-of-Computing/I first watched the film The Blind Side while I was in university several years back. I had wondered why it was nominated for an Academy Award, and at the time, I was doing marathons of Oscar films, but this fil...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/04/What-the-Movie-The-Blind-Side-Didn-t-Tell-Us-About-Michael-Oher/It started around 1839 in the small village of Efailwen in Pembrokeshire, when a local farmer had dressed up as a woman, called himself Rebecca or Beca, and demolished a tollgate. Thus began the Rebecca Riots.Nobody know...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/04/Welsh-Men-Once-Dressed-Like-Women-to-Protest-Against-Taxes/If you've ever studied the saga of the Russian Revolution in the early 20th century, you know how important it was globally. But... actually reading the convoluted story of war and politics will make your eyes glaze over...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/03/Rasputin-The-Russian-Mystic-Behind-the-Throne/In 1950, the new Northgate Mall in Seattle wanted a tall Christmas tree. At the time, public Christmas trees could get a community or company a lot of publicity by setting a record as the tallest ever. The administrators...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/03/The-Worlds-Tallest-Christmas-Tree-Put-an-End-to-the-Competition/We make decisions every day, but we don't often think about the toll those decisions have on us. Deciding between too many options will drain our mental capacity, as will making momentous decisions that we might regret,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/03/Decision-Fatigue-and-How-to-Fight-It/
