About 100 years ago the residents of Zalipie, a small town in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship decided to start painting their village, and paint it they did. Zalipie is fairly secluded and lies in...
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Just a bunch of creepy old photos. Nothing more, nothing less: The fountain below is called the Barmaley fountain; it was originally built in Stalingrad in the 1930’s. The statue is of a circle...
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The Kem Kem Beds lie in the dusty, bone dry borders of South-East Morocco and Western Algeria. This region, now notable for its lack of life and moisture, was once a bustling riverine ecology...
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The Olmec people, active from around 1500-400 BCE, weren’t the earliest “civilised” culture in the Americas but they did win quite a few “firsts” along the way. The Olmec left their mark on history with a...
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Ilya Yefimovich Repin (1844-1930) is the most celebrated painter from 19th century Russia, and from the works below you can see how he rightfully attained such a standing. I heartily recommend clicking to enlarge the images,...
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Of all the mythical medieval beasts that rollocked around in the Dark Ages, the bonnacon (or bonasus and bonacon) has to be the most ridiculous. Legend has it that the bonnacon’s curly horns were no...
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These Japanese posters, mostly produced in the 60s and 70s, look so current and on-point that I was quite taken aback when I found them. I shouldn’t have been astounded though, art and culture is cyclical, as...
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Death by laughter isn’t a particularly common way to go, but it has been recorded a handful of times throughout history , so it’s worthy of mention. I started thinking about this method of dispatch...
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The idea of making a bomb that utilises bats might sound like a pretty mental idea, but actually when you think about it, it’s a pretty nifty idea. Initially the brainchild of a...
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