The popular view of Roman Emperor Nero is that of Peter Ustinov’s performance in Quo Vadis. People who know nothing else of Nero know that he fiddled while Rome burned. While that might be true, it doesn't...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/20/The-New-Nicer-Nero/What makes a good TV theme song? Is one good because it's memorable, because it's a repurposed classic, because it illustrates the show well, or because the creative department made awesome graphics for the intro? Using...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/20/The-Best-Opening-Theme-Songs-In-Television-History-Ranked/This footage of a smoke screen was taken around 1923. A plane dropped a curtain of titanium tetrachloride to obscure the ship's exact location and movement from the enemy. In World War II, this was used to protect Alli...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/20/Hiding-a-Ship-with-Smoke/The Victorian era was when colonialism and the Industrial Revolution collided, and the fashion was to collect interesting objects, or any objects at all, to stuff one's home with. Disposable income led to rampant consume...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/20/Do-We-Have-Victorians-to-Thank-for-Consumerism/Today, we have self-heating cans of soup, that use a chemical reaction to produce heat. It's not a new idea. In fact, a recipe from 13th-century tells us how to do it.To cook meat without fire....Take a small earthenware...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/20/Cooking-Meat-Without-Fire/<p>Most institutions are now investing in online journals or platforms for accessibility. Sure, it’s easier to find research papers and academic journals that can aid us in our studies, but what happe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/20/The-Internet-Archive-Can-Now-Prevent-Research-Papers-From-Vanishing/<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Warning for major amounts of cuteness! Watch as a British Shorthair kitten sweetly sleeps with a tiny chicken. You might think it’s a waste of alm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/20/This-Kitten-Sweetly-Sleeps-With-A-Chicken/<p>Tourism chiefs can drive business to their towns or cities by simply updating or editing their Wikipedia page. Who could have known that that method is one of the most cost-effective ways to promote tour...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/20/Wikipedia-Apparently-Has-A-Massive-Impact-On-Tourism/<p>Well, that’s what Wilhelm Reich thought. The psychoanalyst believed he had discovered “orgone” energy, what he believed was the cosmic source of all sexual energy. Reich even went as fa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/20/The-Source-Of-All-Sexual-Energy/View this post on Instagram Looking forward to showing my beeswax and birch bark collection @loopgallery in April! #encausticmixedmedia #honeycombart #ontariohoneybees A post shared by Ava Roth (@...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/20/Embroidery-with-Bees/<p>Never mind <a href="https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Vogon_poetry" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 86, 137);">Vogon poetry</a>. If you want to r...
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