(YouTube link) Power of Decision is a short film obtained by the National Security Archive at George Washington University. This four-minute preview is only a part of the 12-minute video you can watch at the link. Wa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/02/22/power-of-decision/I had heard long ago about how Warner Brothers was upset about the then-upcoming 1946 Marx Brothers movie A Night in Casablanca because the studio was protective of their own 1942 film Casablanca. It turns out that the s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/02/21/a-night-in-casablanca/A computer from the mid-20th century would fill an entire room -a big room, at that! IBM introduced the 305 RAMAC system in 1956, the first computer to use a hard drive. What you see here is that hard drive, which weighe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/02/17/5mb-hard-drive/George Washington didn't look forward to being the... ...the first one. Read about his reluctant step into history
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/02/15/the-reluctant-president/Irina Werning, a photographer from Buenos Aires, Argentina, has taken a series of old photos and then recreated them with the same persons, clothing and scenery today. I love old photos. I admit being a nosey photog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/02/15/now-and-then-photography/This article is taken from the book Uncle John's B... ...he book Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges Into History . Among the ancients, it was revered as "the el... ...ssible to resist. Yet, for most of its 3,500-year history , it was not eaten but rather consumed as a bevera... ...why not treat yourself...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/02/14/the-rich-history-of-chocolate/While many towns were built on corruption, greed a... ...uo;s residents only knew of the white-washed town history that was (and still is) retold in school history books. Fortunately, when the city threatened to t... ...immediately adjacent to his plot.Left Out of The History...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/02/09/the-surprisingly-scandalous-history-of-early-seattle/From Self-Segregation to Institutionalized Racism, Why Bulgaria's "Gypsies" Have Struggled to Integrate (Image credit: Flickr user Dominic Rivard) To the ill-informed, the word "gypsy" evokes images of tarot cards an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/02/03/the-romas-long-road-to-equality/Can you believe it? The game Oregon Trail will tur... ...agged his quarry. The game was first played in a history class on December 3rd, 1971. Students had to wait...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/31/the-history-of-the-history-game-oregon-trail/The following is an article from the book History 's Lists from Uncle John's Bathroom Reader. Eit... ...hen. What is not so well known is that in Turkish history , the crescent symbolizes Diana, the patron goddes... ...of the flag is not odd in the context of Nepal's history...
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