There’s something oddly fascinating about abandoned places. Perhaps it’s the story they tell, like the story of East St. Louis, Illinois. In 1950, East St. Louis was considered one of the most successful cities in the state of Illinois. But the restructuring of railroads and the building of highways out of its way had led … Read more
The U.S. conducted hundreds of nuclear tests between 1945 and 1962. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has been working tirelessly for the last 5 years to preserve the declassified films of nuclear tests, and made them available to the general public on their official Youtube channel. Recently, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory released around 250 … Read more
The Exorcist is one of the most iconic and groundbreaking horror films. It was not just the scariest film of the 1970s but one of the highest grossing films of all time. They say that The Exorcist in 1973 was so gory for that time that the theaters actually provided people with vomit bags and … Read more
Bordering other Caribbean nations to the north, Trinidad and Tobago shares maritime boundaries with other nations including Barbados to the northeast, Grenada to the northwest, Guyana to the southeast, and Venezuela to the south and west. Here is a fascinating collection of images from of Trinidad and Tobago found in the service album of an … Read more
As a result of the space race between USA and the Soviet Union in the 1950s, NASA was created in 1958. After some setbacks and failed rocket launches, the first U.S. satellite, Explorer 1, reached orbit on January 31, 1958. Not content to simply circle the Earth, Explorer 1 sought to study the planet and … Read more
Oscar Wilde was an infamously brilliant playwright, writer, and social activist. He’s well-known legacy pervades his many published essays, plays, especially his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. Wilde was an epic figure in his time, due to his many witticisms and social standing. He said or wrote a lot of witty things, and here … Read more