(Video Link) Did you know that the Daleks originated from Doctor Who's take on the Cuban Missile Crisis? The second serial presented on Doctor Who, a six-part story called “The Daleks,” was set on a distant world w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/27/5-doctor-who-episodes-based-on-real-events/While your teachers may have spread lies about planetary plates shifting and causing the continents to separate, Dan Meth is brave enough to share the truth with us. Pangaea occurred when the continents were cuddling...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/22/the-true-story-behind-pangaeas-seperation/English is a fascinating language, particularly in that most of our words come from other languages. While most words come from some sort of root words that have travelled from ancient languages to more modern lexicons,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/19/10-words-originating-from-greek-mythology/This adorable old picture would have made a great postcard. It is part of a collection of photographs of Dutch life published in the 1906 book De Aarde en haar volken (The Earth and Its People). See more at Illustrat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/12/dutch-boys/1968 Saigon - FATESCAPES/Osudov&... ...lationship of photographer, image and history in a manner that is profoundly unsettling. Viewin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/04/fatescapes-iconic-photographs-without-people/Alexander Graham Bell and his Volta Laboratory Associates began research into recording sound in the early 1880s. They tried a variety of recording mediums, such as glass, wax, rubber, and metal. The experimental materia...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/29/130-year-old-sound-recordings/If you're a regular Neatorama reader, than you probably already know that Egyptian mummies were regularly burned as firewood in the past, but you might not be aware of some of the other tragedies befalling historical...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/28/6-bizarre-endings-for-historical-treasures/Science is a field based largely on theory and experimentation, which is why you have to be pretty darn certain you are right if you're willing to test your ideas on yourself. For example, in the picture above: In 1929...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/28/scientists-who-experimented-on-themselves/Every once in a while, you think you've found the most perfect gift ever. But does it compare to the Statue of Liberty, a gift from France to the United States? Mental_floss has a roundup of the biggest, costliest, and m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/23/15-of-the-greatest-gifts-in-the-history-of-presents/Apollo 8 wasn't just a NASA mission; it was the bi... ...eople tuned in, making it the largest TV event in history at the time, and the reception was overwhelmingly...
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