Diving Horses Were All The Rage In The 1880’s
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Us humans like to look at things we didn’t expect to see. Anything from car crashes to murder victims, it’s an odd habit that I doubt we’ll ever lose. The bad old days...
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Lazarus Taxon: Creatures Once Extinct Raised From The Dead
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Referring of course to the Biblical Lazarus (who Jesus kindly brought back from the jaws of death), a Lazarus taxon is a group of animals initially thought to be extinct only to be discovered...
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The Korean Who Fought For Japan, Germany AND Russia In WWII
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You could easily argue that the Korean soldier Yang Kyoungjong was the luckiest and the unluckiest soldier that ever lived. He managed to find himself fighting for three different countries: Japan, Germany and...
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Where Is Jesus Buried? – Shingō, Japan
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Some believe Jesus was crucified, buried in a cave, rose again and ascended to heaven leaving no earthly trace. Others believe Jesus died as a normal man and remained buried and rotted away,...
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Jewish Autonomous Oblast: A Yiddish Enclave In Russia
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In 1934, as part of Stalin’s nationality policy, Russia provided the Jewish population with their very own self-governed Oblast (the equivalent of the UK’s counties). The idea was to keep Yiddish culture alive,...
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200ft Pink Rabbit Placed 5000ft Up The Alps
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Colletto Fava is a 5,000 ft (1,500 metre) hill in Italy. In 2005, Members of the Viennese art group Gelitin (which inclides M. Puletta, Corroni Fali, Razzoli Caputo, and R. Calizone) decided to...
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The Mysterious Pine Forest Swastika
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The pine forest swastika was a massive and mysterious pattern drawn by carefully planted larch trees in a pine forest near Zernikow, Uckermark district, Brandenburg, in north-eastern Germany. The image, covering 3,600 square metres...
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Windmilling At Work / Heavy Metal Labourer
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A video of a laborer windmilling to death metal. It’s not something I’ve seen before, it’s not something I’ve wanted to see before, it’s not something I have even considered searching for. But,...
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Julie Heffernan: A New Kind Of History Painting
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Julie Heffernan is a California born, New York resident. Her paintings were described by the writer Rebecca Solnit as “a new kind of history painting.” Her works are full of an ancient mythological symbolism but with...
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Cordyceps: The Most Brutal Of Fungi
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Cordyceps are a group of around 400 different fungi species. The majority of this legion of fungi are insect parasites (entomopathogenic) and destroy their victims in the most blood-curdling and brutal way. They take...
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