Peder Balke (1804-1887) painted the bleakest most impressive parts of one of Europe’s bleakest and most impressive countries. Famous in Norway for his romantic visions, he has largely been ignored outside of his home country....
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Virginia Hall was an impressive human. She worked as a spy during World War II with the British Special Operations Executive (SOE). I reckon, in a straight race, Virginia Hall would count as one...
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I don’t like to make a habit out of mocking public health videos, but sometimes it can’t be helped. As many of you will have heard on the news, the Zika virus, named...
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Having had a beard attached to my face, more often than not, for the past 17 years or so, I have found this latest beard craze quite fascinating. Previously, my beard signified little more than...
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I’m not really one for blowing smoke up corporate company’s butt pipes, but credit where credit’s due. The now defunct Best Products Co. had some of the best flipping shop designs I have ever...
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The war in Syria has been hurtling on for years. The origins of the conflict are complicated and involve multiple players. The initial belligerents were those who wanted to depose President Assad and his family...
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Across the Western world, from the mid-1500s up until the early 20th century, the appropriate clothing for a little boy was significantly different to today’s mainstream choices. Nowadays, a baby boy would never think of leaving...
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Here are a few pages from a book written in 1854 by a chap called Germain de Lagny. According to the Russian website where I got these pictures, de Lagny was visiting Russia...
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Sometimes people have a go at Lazer Horse’s choices of subject matter. They claim the topics are a bit too left of field, perhaps a little random; a touch skewiff, if you will. So...
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I found a Tumblr the other day that posts photos of the interiors of North Korean buildings. These Soviet-inspired oddities are a work of silky softness in one of the least silky and soft countries on...
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