(Photo: Camille)The Battle of Verdun consumed most of 1916. Over 10 months, 300,000 Frenchmen and Germans died. Another 750,000 were wounded. There was a constant monsoon of artillery shells. It permanently changed the l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/05/31/The-Forbidden-Zone-65-Square-Miles-of-France-Still-Uninhabitable-after-World-War-I/(Photo: US Post Office)In a fascinating article at io9, Esther Ingils-Arkell tells us about United States fractional currency. During the American Civil War, the Trent Affair almost drew the UK into declaring war on the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/05/14/This-3-Cent-Bill-Is-Legal-Tender-in-the-United-States/(Photo: Brian Barbutti)The United States has the White House and Argentina has the Pink House. That's what the presidential palace in Buenos Aires is called--the Casa Rosada. The color comes from a traditional blending o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/28/13-Presidential-Palaces-around-the-World/(Image via Visual News)When President Barack Obama was born in 1961, President Herbert Hoover was still alive. When President Hoover was born in 1874, President Andrew Johnson was still alive. When President Johnson was...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/22/The-United-States-Is-Only-4-Presidents-Old/(Photos: Kecko, Pascal Binczak)Nazi Germany coveted the prosperous nation of Switzerland and made plans to invade it. But Operation Tannenbaum remained forever a hypothetical exercise and the Swiss were largely spared fr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/21/The-Toblerone-Line-A-Fortification-in-Switzerland/(Photo: Stefan)Lady Jane Stanely of Knutsford, Cheshire, UK, never married and was rather bitter about it. She sometimes saw couples walking next to each other down the sidewalks of her town and took it upon herself to e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/20/18th-Century-Sidewalks-Are-Single-File-to-Prevent-Couples-from-Walking-Side-by-Side/(Photo: Jason Thein)The islands are smiling at you!The left eye is named Mamutik. The right eye is named Sulug. The big grin is named Manukan. Together, these three islands in Malaysia are sometimes called the Smiley Isl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/05/12-Cool-Shaped-Islands-around-the-World/(Image: Uwe Dedering)Bertrand “Bud” Gearhart (R-CA) was a member of the US House of Representatives from 1935-1949. In the early years of the Cold War, he was concerned about Soviet international ambitions, e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/02/1947-Bill-in-US-Congress-Would-Offer-Statehood-to-Iceland/(Photo via Library of Congress)From 1778 to 1782, Daniel Frederick Bakeman was a soldier in the Continental Army. On the final day of his life--April 5, 1869--he was the last surviving American veteran of the Revolutiona...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/03/16/15-Last-Survivors-of-Famous-Events/(Photo: Fanny Schertzer)So you want to be a supervillain. Good for you! It's important to have ambition. But you'll need more, such as a great name, a character hook, a costume, and some henchmen. Once you have those tak...
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