Vintage Toys: Cape Canaveral Satellite Monitor, Circa 1950s
Check out this vintage Cape Canaveral Satellite Monitor toy bus, circa 1950s. A sweet piece of Space Age memorabilia. …
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Pop Culture Capsule: Vintage Pulp Fiction Novel Book Covers
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A gallery of ten vintage pulp fiction novel book covers from the 1940s and 1950s, curated for maximum cheesiness and fun.…
Was the American space program built in… Yugoslavia?
Was the American space program secretly developed by Yugoslavia? The upcoming documentary “Houston, We Have a Problem!” claims just that.…
Yadda yadda yadda…the end. (or, classics of human thought get the AutoSummarize treatment)
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Words. Who has time for them, right? I know I don’t, and you probably don’t either. So, inspired by Jason Huff’s AutoSummarize project of the 100 most-downloaded copyright-free books, I decided to gather a broader…
Retrotisements – Tang
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The General Mills Corporation started producing a little-known, citrus-flavored drink mix called Tang in 1959. It sold pretty poorly for more than half a decade, until the company noticed that it was being used by…