Watch These Floppy Drives Play a Famous Power Metal Song
Some complain about the expanding role of technology in our lives. This time, it’s music to our ears.In this video, a coordinated and synchronized orchestra of eight floppy disk drives plays “Through...
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Town Line, New York in Alden, New York
Descended almost entirely from German immigrants with zero investment in slavery, today’s Town Liners have no idea why their forefathers sided with the Southern States in the Civil War one fateful day...
View ArticleSecret Service Rules Are Causing Traffic Jams in Philadelphia
95 NB approaching PHL coming to grinding halt with Police Checkpoint up ahead pic.twitter.com/nyn0kiOgYw— Bob Kelly (@bobkellytraffic) July 25, 2016It's a highway commuter's morning nightmare—lines of...
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Aleja Elvisa Presleya in Kraków, Poland
On the edge of a city park in Kraków there is an entrance to a forested trail, and at the head of the trail is the head of a King. It is embedded in some rough stone, adorned with flowers, and the...
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Republic of Kinney in Kinney, Minnesota
In the mid-1970s the officials of tiny Kinney, Minnesota were desperate to fix their crumbling water system. With no help in sight from the county, state or federal government, they did the only...
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The Miseducation of John Muir
John Muir, c. 1875. (Photo: Fotosearch/Stringer/Getty Images)It’s quite possible that America’s future was changed on the evening of March 6, 1867, in a factory that manufactured carriage parts in the...
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10 Dark Towers That Once Made The World's Bullets
From bullets to ballet, this old shot tower is being put to good use. (Photo: Stephan Bain/CC BY-SA 3.0)Who knew munitions factories could be so lovely?The little metal shot balls that were once the...
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Havasupai Falls in Supai, Arizona
The Grand Canyon draws in over five million tourists each year and is one of the “Seven Natural Wonders of the World.” But hidden within a 35 mile radius, under control of the local Havasupai tribe,...
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Dutch Men and Latvian Women Are the Tallest in the World
The Dutch pitcher Loek van Mil, who, at 7'1", is the tallest player in professional baseball. (Photo: Eargus/CC BY-SA 4.0)Men and women, for decades, have only been getting taller, growing by several...
View ArticleBeach-Goers Write 'Beware Shark' Into Massachusetts Beach as Warning
'Beware shark:' Unconfirmed shark sighting reported in Duxbury https://t.co/CoalLRopnQpic.twitter.com/Be9DCIZ2VT— WCVB-TV Boston (@WCVB) July 26, 2016In a summer filled with one of the most oppressive...
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The Pember Museum in Granville, New York
For nearly fifty years, from 1924 to 1971, the second floor of the Granville library was the stuff of local rumor and legend.Occasionally a kindly librarian might let an inquisitive child tiptoe up the...
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Siloam Tunnel in Jerusalem, Israel
The Siloam Tunnel is a relic of Biblical past imbued in the modern landscape of Jerusalem. This still-standing remnant of ancient history is an architectural marvel considered one of the greatest...
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The Scandalous Zines of Renaissance England
An image from Curiosities of Street Literature, 1871. (Photo: Public Domain) A series of brutal murders took place in 1635, and news of this quickly spread across England. Single incendiary sheets of...
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The Blue City of Jodhpur in Jodhpur, India
The second largest city in the Indian state of Rajasthan, this “Blue City” is a mesmerizing collection of azure abodes that soothes and delights anyone that beholds it.In the city of Jodhpur, a sea of...
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The Lonely Ballad of the Dulles Airport Mobile Lounge
The mobile lounge at Dulles Airport in action, 1960s. (Photo: Library of Congress/LC-DIG-krb-00774)If your travels ever bring you to Concourse D of Washington, D.C.'s Dulles International Airport, you...
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Orry the Oryx Statue in Doha, Qatar
Standing approximately 30 feet tall, in the center of Doha, is a seemingly meaningless statue of a standing antelope-like animal holding a torch and dressed in gym shorts, a t-shirt, and tennis shoes....
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The 9,000-Mile Sea Journey of an Irradiated Indian Mango
Ripe mangos. (Photo: Ramnath Bhat // CC BY: 2.0)Farmers in India say the unique aroma and taste of the Alphonso mango comes from the nutrient rich, blood-red soil and the winds blowing over the...
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Police Impersonators in the UK Are Now on the Hijacking Beat
A marked Essex police car. (Photo: davebutton/CC BY 2.0)On Saturday, in Essex County, England, a group of four men put a blue flashing light on their car and pulled over a white Mercedes Sprinter van....
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Machias Seal Island in United States / Canada
Little known to most Americans and Canadians, the U.S. and Canada hold five border disputes to this day. While four of these disputes are over a water area (one of them due to differing interpretations...
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Puzzlers Just Got a Little Closer to Solving Gravity Falls' Final Mystery
Six days ago, Alex Hirsch, the creator of the animated television show Gravity Falls, posted a message on Twitter.Let the games begin #FLSKHUKXQWpic.twitter.com/shSu5PCDSR— Alex Hirsch (@_AlexHirsch)...
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