Image: Chip Somodevilla/Getty In what is sure to be great news for fans of literature the world over, author Harper Lee will publish a second novel this summer, entitled Go Set a Watchman. The manuscript, which Ms. Lee w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/02/03/Harper-Lee-to-Publish-a-Second-Novel/Zeon and I recently went to Portland to check out the Wizard World there. What we didn't know is that the comic convention always lines up with the city's annual ChocolateFest -which seems appropriate since they no doubt...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/02/02/The-Magical-World-of-ChocolateFest/Spanish artist Marta de Andrés offers this contribution from an art show in Valencia. She writes, "The subject of this festival was Women, the strength of women and equality between men and women." Her response wa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/26/Some-Like-It-Dark/(Photo: Hatena Jobmate)Mukonage is an annual event held on January 15 at the Matsunoyama Onsen hot spring resort in Tokamachi, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. The first son-in-law to marry a girl from town the previous year i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/26/This-Japanese-Festival-Tosses-Newly-Married-Men-into-Snow-for-Good-Luck/Enjoy a collection of Japanese prints from the 1800s that depict cats in human situations, mostly having a grand old time. The picture above is a pun, as the title Roku kesen (猫の六毛撰) can mean either Six Immorta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/25/19th-Century-Japanese-LOLcats/We know enough about the royal couple, Will and Kate. England is majestic for at least ten other reasons.1. The Cabbies Are Smarter Than Google MapsLondon has the most informed cab drivers in the world—and they&rsq...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/23/10-Interesting-Things-About-Great-Britain/Horror Rhapsody by Absolem StudioThey were tired of simply slashing their way through the local teen population, and those four fiends were looking for a new outlet for their supernatural frustration. They discovered the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/23/Horror-Rhapsody-Very-Very-Frightning-Me/Oamaru, New Zealand, is famous for its colony of blue penguins, and plenty of tourists come to see them. But the town is also the steampunk capital of New Zealand. Tom Fassbender went to see what that was all about, and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/14/New-Zealands-Amazing-Steampunk-Town/(Photo: Lindsay Fendt)Bullfighting in other parts of the world is often a gory spectacle that ends in the deaths of the bulls. It’s different in the bullfighting and rodeo traditions of Costa Rica. There, daring yo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/14/In-Costa-Rican-Bullfighting-You-Cant-Kill-the-BullBut-the-Bull-Can-Kill-You/The BBC ran the Island Blogging project in northern Scotland from 2003 to 2010. One blogger, calumannabel, posted a challenge for more contributions of news and everyday life in 2005, asking the question Is there life on...
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