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Can You Decode the Hieroglyphic Geography of the United States?

Are you good at geography? Try to decipher these.

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Artist Colorizes Old Photographs With Surreal Twists

In her fascinating series entitled Dancing With Costică, Australian artist and photographer Jane Long colorizes old black and white photos and adds a surreal twist to them. The originals were taken by...

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Artist Colorizes Old Photographs With Surreal Twists

The past, made even more surreal.

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Soviet Union Pamphlets for Nuclear Attack

God, it’s almost as sad as the Soviet Union itself. Here’s how they were preparing for an attack from another bully, like the USA for example.

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Soviet Union Pamphlets for Nuclear Attack

Best be prepared.

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Abandoned Suitcases Reveal How Life Used to Be in a Lunatic Asylum

Uhh, this is rather creepy, but certainly interesting: from the 1910s through the 1960s, many patients at the Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane in the State of New York left suitcases behind when...

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Can It Be Done? Vintage Ideas That Seem to Have Been Implemented Today

That television newspaper + the car phone = the smart phone, right? And how about Skype for intramural television? All this is from Scoops magazine UK (1934/1935).

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Can It Be Done? Vintage Ideas That Seem to Have Been Implemented Today

Apparently, it can.

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Every Olympic Logo 1896-2022

Well, the logo thing only really started in the 30’s – what they had before that were more like posters. Interestingly, the olympic symbol’s popularity and widespread use began during the lead-up to...

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Every Olympic Logo 1896-2022

Visuallympics.

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Old Education Poster on How Women Should Sit and Walk Gets New Meaning Amidst...

I see this old education poster for women in a compleletely new light – in light of the current harrassment scandals hitting Planet Earth, light? Light, earthlings, is what you need in connection with...

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Old Education Poster on How Women Should Sit and Walk Gets New Meaning Amidst...

I know it’s a long title but it has a lot of meaning.

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Weird Vintage Christmas and New Year Greeting Cards

These weird Christmas and New Year greeting cards are from 19th-century, or more precisely, the Victorian era, and they are just as creepy as those times themselves. Apparently, back then there was...

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Weird Vintage Christmas and New Year Greeting Cards

Those Victorians were crazy. The murderous frogs are killer too.

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Nintendo: Now You’re Playing With Power!

Younger earthlings may be unaware of this: when Nintendo launched its video game console called the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in North America in 1985, the video game industry was a mess....

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Nintendo: Now You’re Playing With Power!

N’intend do any harm.

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8-Bit Computer Collectible Trump Cards

The trump cards game that pits server CPUs against each other probably remains the geekiest card game around, but how about a round of these Retro Computer Collectible Cards, which gather the various...

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8-Bit Computer Collectible Trump Cards

These trump cards are wild cards.

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A Page of Accessories of Interest to Motorists

Catalogs were the predecessor’s of todays webshops, and they were around as soon as 1911 (and even well before that). I find the auto coats and motorist accessories from those times to be so cool and...

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A Page of Accessories of Interest to Motorists

No, they aren’t beekeepers…

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