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Sunglasses helps a lot in the “ticket writing” process. The bikini was invented by French engineer Louis Réard. He coined the named in 1946. He got the name of the swimsuit design from Bikini Atoll, where the testing on the atomic bomb took place. Réard would later describe the bikini as a “two-piece bathing suit … Read more
Spectators watch live the final, decisive game in the rematch between Garry Kasparov and the IBM computer Deep Blue. May 11, 1997. Photo credit: Stan Honda / AFP / Getty Images In 1997, the world was stunned when they saw the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue beating the World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov. Hunching over the … Read more
Two Soviet infantrymen frozen to death in their foxhole, Winter War, Finland (1940) In 1939 and 1940, the Soviet Union and Finland were at war. The smaller Finnish army proved tenacious. The Soviets had to bring troops from afar, including from regions that had no experience of hard winters. The Soviet army paid a heavy … Read more
1. When a programme stops responding… 2. The no-internet struggle: 3. When you had to wake up early to watch your favorite cartoons… [wp_ad_camp_1] 4. That never-ending search for the right folder! 5. When your sound system couldn’t read the disc you’d just burned… 6. When this has an actual ring of truth to it… … Read more
Kwakwaka’wakw man inside a board structure, curing mummy over smoke and coals of fire (1910) Photo credit: Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952, “The drying mummy”, 1910 Among the Kwakwaka’wakw people of the Pacific Northwest, the Hamatsa were a secret society who exercised a ritual often called a “cannibal” ritual. There has been some debate as to … Read more
Old photos give us some ideas what it was really like in the past. Here’s an interesting collection of old-school adult advertisements in the 1960s: [wp_ad_camp_1]