“Mecum Auction driver’s foot slipped.”
6 Historical Photos That Speak Volumes
The Capture of Saddam Hussein, December 13, 2003
30 Memes That Won The Internet This Week
Memory Rush
Loading...
·
No. --
Lets Take A Stroll Through The Art Museum
Carl Frithjof Smith, After the Communion (1892)
[Read more…] about Lets Take A Stroll Through The Art Museum
Word of the Day
September 8, 2026
discomfit
to thwart, baffle
“The normally cheery and playful children's sudden misery discomfited the teacher.”
27 Nostalgic Images That Remind You How Fast Life Moves
Feed Your Brain With These Fascinating Facts
When President McKinley was shot in 1901, the best surgeon around was kneedeep in a complex operation. When told he was needed elsewhere, he replied that he could not leave, not even for the President. Even after he was told who his new patient was, he remained put and finished his work.
[Read more…] about Feed Your Brain With These Fascinating Facts
25 Painfully Accurate Memes for People over 40
20 Artists Whose Work You Need to See Right Now
5 Historical Photos That Speak Volumes
Japanese listening to the recorded radio broadcast of Emperor Hirohito announcing the surrender of Japan, August 1945
They had never heard his voice.
Think about that. An emperor—descended, according to tradition, from the sun itself—existed more as a mythic construct than a human figure. And suddenly, on an August day when the world seemed to be cracking open at the seams, his voice came through tinny speakers and battered radios, distorted by static and ceremonial language so archaic that even many native Japanese struggled to parse it.
25 Memes That Won The Internet This Week
Feed Your Brain With These Fascinating Facts
In 1999, Philip Morris attempted to convince the government of the Czech Republic that smoking was highly beneficial to the country, as more people would die earlier as a result, thus letting the government save millions on pensions, hospitals, and housing for elderly citizens
[Read more…] about Feed Your Brain With These Fascinating Facts
