The reviewer for The Times could barely contain hi... ...ory." Forty years ago, a hitherto unknown British civil servant named Richard Adams released Watership Do... ...dly appropriate for little kids. 3. During World War II, Adams was a supply officer in the British Arm... ...he Netherlands, Denmark, India...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/05/18/10-facts-you-might-not-know-about-watership-down/The ancient Greeks were obsessed with sculpting th... ...h sculpting the perfect male form. But when their civilization died out, bodybuilding died with it. It took a Pr... ...gyms around England. By the outbreak of World War I, Sandow had all but retired from the stage. A n...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/05/17/flex-appeal-the-father-of-modern-bodybuilding/If you’re geeky enough to read Neatorama, th... ...erating at a time, most notably during the Marvel Civil War story line, where the U.S. requires all heroes to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/05/03/from-comics-to-film-with-the-avengers/The following is an article from Uncle John's... ...much older mythological tales such as the Trojan War . Or it may have been purely an invention of Plato... ...n. We may never know for sure. No evidence of any civilization matching Plato's description has ever been discov...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/30/the-lost-continent-of-atlantis/This Civil War photograph was ...wait, are those porta-potties i... ...can imagine someone cropping it and using it as a Civil War photo sometime in the future. Photographer Richar... ...in the future. Photographer Richard Barnes shoots Civil War reenactments using techniq...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/27/civil-war-reenvisioned/Our friends at Comics Alliance have put togeth... ...d, based on Mike Mignola's one-shot comic about a Civil War era robotic secret agent, and Locke & Key, th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/25/15-tv-shows-based-on-comic-books-that-didnt-make-the-cut/I know many of our readers view graffiti as just t... ...njoy like these great geeky graffiti pieces? Star Wars : Sure, Imperial Walkers are always pretty cool, b... ...lear. Image via tashland [Flickr] Not all Star Wars graffiti is goofy though, just look at the amazin... ...o, it’s worth noting tha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/18/20-great-examples-of-gloriously-geeky-graffiti/Thousands of soldiers were wounded during the Battle of Shiloh on April 6, 1862 -150 years ago today. Medics on both sides were overwhelmed, and some of those wounded had to wait quite some time for treatment. Some of t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/06/why-some-civil-war-soldiers-glowed-in-the-dark/The following is reprinted from the book Uncle Joh... ...d to name the most important documents in Western civilization , historians almost always include the Magna Carta... ...barons learned of John's treachery, they declared civil war . But the conflict was brief: King John died in 12...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/27/the-magna-carta/It’s what makes women wear torturous undergarmen... ...ngs powerful enough to influence culture, trigger wars , and spawn international scandals. 1. Antony a... ...Antony into a helpless puppet. Octavian declared war on the two lovers, which culminated in the Battle... ...British history, when he fell in...
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