How will you commemorate the 40th anniversary of man's first step on the moon? There's plenty to explore on the site We Choose The Moon now, but you'll also want to bookmark it so you can follow the events of 40 years ag...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/13/we-choose-the-moon/I live in a house that is over 100 years old. That's pretty old by US standards, but can you imagine living in a city that is 12,000 years old? That would be Damascus, Syria, with a population of four million people. W...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/11/the-10-oldest-still-inhabited-cities/Dark Roasted Blend takes a look at the flags of nations and empires that no longer exist. The double eagle is a recurring motif, found in the flags of the Byzantine Empire, Imperial Russia, Austria-Hungary, and Yugosla...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/07/flags-of-forgotten-countries/The more we find out about the Apollo moon missions, the more we find they were operating closer to the edge than anyone outside of NASA knew. In an excerpt from Buzz Aldrin's new book, "Magnificent Desolation: The Long...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/06/rigging-apollo-11-on-the-moon/In 1971, Juliane Koepcke was the sole survivor of a plane crash that killed 91 people over Peru. She fell two miles and landed in the rain forest. The 17-year-old Koepcke then walked for ten days through jungle terrain t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/05/plane-crash-survivor-tells-story/Maps have always been good visual aids for polit... ...itical cartoon maps of Britain and Europe through history . Twelve maps are featured, including this 1793 ma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/30/an-incomplete-evolution-of-the-cartoon-political-map/Author and illustrator Maira Kalman took a trip to Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson and was moved to write a travelogue. But this is no ordinary travelogue. Kalman writes about Jefferson's life and philosophy a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/28/time-wastes-too-fast/When is a video not a video? Some consider Vaslav Nijinsky the greatest ballet dancer ever, but there is no known film footage of Nijinsky, who retired at age 29 in 1919. He would not allow his company to be filmed. Howe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/25/nijinsky-on-video/The Battle of Little Bighorn happened 133 years ago today. George Custer and his men were certainly outnumbered, but their defeat may have also been assured by the Lakota and Cheyenne warriors' superior weaponry. If the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/25/was-custer-outgunned-at-little-bighorn/One hundred years ago this year, Russian photographer Sergey Produkin-Gorsky (pictured left) embarked on a project that was to define his life's work - to photograph the vast country of Russia and its peoples in full col...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/17/the-incredible-century-old-color-photography-of-prokudin-gorsky/
