(Photos: Sina)This majestic tree is a testament to the beauty of nature and thoughtful gardening. For 1,400 years, this gingko has shaded the Guanyin Zen Temple in the Zhongnan mountains of China. Legend holds that Emper...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/11/25/Ancient-Chinese-Tree-Drops-an-Ocean-of-Golden-Leaves/(Photo: Thomas E. Jacks/Find-a-Grave)The cause of... ...tor of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History .That’s it. Historians have analyzed the sou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/11/24/Oliver-Pollock-The-Man-Who-Invented-the-Dollar-Sign/The RMS Titanic was a floating city with almost every amenity from dry land that could be desired at sea. For example, the Titanic had its own daily newspaper called the Atlantic Daily Bulletin. Pictured above is an offi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/11/04/16-Stories-You-Might-Not-Know-about-the-Titanic/It is well known that Joseph Stalin of the Soviet... ...uly 1951 castigated him for teaching officers the geography of any country but Yugoslavia: "Your students mus...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/09/30/How-World-War-III-Almost-Broke-out-in-1950/(Image: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)Alaska was the site of some nuclear testing during the 1960s and 70s, including the largest underground nuclear test ever conducted by the United States.But Project Chariot...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/09/29/Actual-Proposal-Nuke-Alaska/(Photo: Ansgar Walk)The Smoking Hills are located near Cape Bathurst on the Arctic Coast of the Northwest Territories. When Royal Navy Captain Robert McClure explored the area in the 1850s, he thought that the smoke on t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/09/23/The-Smoking-Hills-of-Canada/(Photo: Connecticut National Guard Foundation)Pictured above are a few of the members of the First Company of the Governor's Foot Guard of the Connecticut State Militia. It is now a ceremonial unit. But when it was forme...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/09/02/Americas-Oldest-Military-Unit-in-Continuous-Operation-Dates-Back-to-1771/70 years ago today, the bloodiest, most destructiv... ...e bloodiest, most destructive war in all of human history ended.After the destruction of 2 cities from atom...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/09/02/70-Years-Ago-Today-Japan-Surrenders-Ending-World-War-II/(Photo: Peter Corbett)There's a spit of land in Kent jutting out into the English Channel. It's so dry that the British government refers to it as the nation's only desert. This is Dungeness and it can be yours--for the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/10/For-Sale-The-Only-Desert-in-Britain/(Photo: Muratatis)Believe it or not, the object in this photo is a clock. It's called the Mengenlehreur and can be found in Berlin. The yellow light at the top blinks, showing the seconds. The top row shows the hours. Th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/08/The-11-Strangest-Public-Clocks-in-the-World/
