A group of amateur musicians formed a club in London in the mid-1700s called the Anacreontic Society. They had day jobs as the pillars of society, but at night they would get together and present concerts. Member John St...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/03/the-anacreontic-song/Marvin Heemeyer spent a year and a half modifying a Komatsu D335A bulldozer into an "armored vehicle of vengeance". On June 4th, 2004, he rampaged through the town of Granby, Colorado, smashing vehicles and buildings, in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/29/the-wrath-of-the-killdozer/Here is a collection of 20 quirky, bizarre and historical maps, covering many areas of the world. War maps, demographic maps, William Clark's hand-drawn map, and the island of California. What?Believe it or not, explorer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/22/the-island-of-california-and-other-fascinating-ancient-maps/You've heard plenty about how the US beat the Soviets to the moon in 1969. There was another lesser-known exploratory scoop in January of 1960, when US Navy marine specialist Lieutenant Don Walsh and oceanographer Jacque...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/21/the-deepest-ocean-depths/The post is titled "9 reasons why there wasn’t stress in the good old days". Now, you better believe there was plenty of stress in the 19th and 20th centuries, but people were happy to try everything nature and medical...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/21/stress-relief-from-the-good-old-days/Photographer Burk Uzzle took plenty of photographs of the Woodstock music festival in August of 1969, but none are remembered better than the young couple wrapped in a blanket that became the cover art for the record alb...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/20/woodstock-lovers-still-together/Some of the most notorious discoveries and inventions arose by accident, or more commonly, were developed for uses other than what they ended up doing. Listverse looks at ten such products, including trinitrotoluene, a c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/19/10-useful-inventions-that-went-bad/A century and a half ago, 20 people died and many other became ill because their local candy distributor knew a bargain when he saw one. On October 23, 1858, William “Humbug Billy” Hardaker, sold peppermint lozeng...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/18/the-case-of-the-poisoned-peppermints/40 years ago today, Apollo 11 lifted off from Cape Canaveral. The Big Picture celebrates with a collection of large images of the mission. This photograph was taken by astronaut Michael Collins as the Eagle approached...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/16/apollo-11-in-pictures/A look at the surprisingly complex history of the automobile headlight. The first headlights...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/14/illuminating-a-brief-history-of-the-headlight/
