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Student girl writing formulas on transparent wall
The Bizarre Origins of the Words Nerd and Geek
"John Dee performing an experiment before Queen Elizabeth I" by Henry Gillard Glindoni. Oil painting 18th century. Pentimento, occult, sorcery, magic.
Queen Elizabeth's Court Occultist
Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe by Frederick T. Stuart, c. about 1845
The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe
Facsimile of one of William Henry Ireland's forgeries, a primitive self-portrait of William Shakespeare(tinted engraving). Published for Samuel Ireland, Norfolk Street, Strand, December 1, 1795. (W.H. Ireland, forgery)
The Time a Law Clerk Successfully Forged a New Shakespeare Play to Impress His Dad
A background with a view of earthen lamps arranged on the holy Swastika design made of flowers, during Diwali festival in India.
How the Symbolism of the Swastika Was Ruined
Carnivorous Venus Fly Traps (Dionaea muscipula) and Sundews (Drosera capensis) Plants secrete digestive enzymes s until the insect is liquified and its soluble contents digested.
Beyond Venus Flytraps: The Plants that Eat Meat
William Shakespeare, 1564-1616. c 1907
What Did Shakespeare Sound Like?
Cathedrale St.Jean in Lyon, France has a 14th-century astronomical clock that shows religious feast days till the year 2019; Perpetual Calendar
Ten Days That Vanished: The Switch to the Gregorian Calendar
Florence, Italy Statue of David by Michelangelo
How a Rejected Block of Marble Became the World’s Most Famous Statue
Julius Caesar in full Gaius Julius Caesar (100? BCE-44 BCE) statue in Rimini, Italy. Roman general and statesman and dictator
The Time Julius Caesar Was Captured by Pirates
"On the threshold of office--what have we to expect of him?" chromolithograph by Joseph Keppler, September 1881. Print shows the members of the assassinated James A. Garfield's cabinet looking at the new president, Chester Arthur. Chester A. Arthur.
The Surprisingly Disorderly History of the US Presidential Succession Order
Scene from "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, 1843. The irascible, curmudgeonly Ebenezer Scrooge with the Ghost of Christmas Present, the third of the four apparitions that visit him on Christmjas Eve. From "A Christmas Carol" by...
Diagnosing 9 of Charles Dickens’s Most Famous Characters
Norwegian forest cat relaxing in a tree
Vikings Helped Cats Conquer the World
Artist's reconstruction of Saccorhytus coronarius, based on the original fossil finds. The actual creature was probably no more than a millimeter in size.
The Oldest Human Ancestor
Frankenstein, Boris Karloff (1931). Directed by James Whale
The Real Science Behind Frankenstein
Self Portrait by Vincent Van Gogh, dated around 1887. Oil on canvas 42x34cm
The Tumultuous Life of Vincent van Gogh
The polka-dot treefrog (Hypsiboas punctatus).
Freaky Fluorescent Frog Found
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