In 1891, 14-year-old Michael Zoettl was recruited to become a Benedictine monk, and was sent from his home in Bavaria to Cullman, Alabama, to live at St. Bernard’s Abbey. Now called Brother Joseph, he studied to be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/07/14/When-Injury-Killed-His-Humble-Dream-He-Built-a-Whole-Miniature-World-Instead/You've heard the phrase, "If you love the law and you love sausage, you don't want to see either one being made." Well, sausages begin with the pig, and learning unsavory details about pigs may put you off sausage for a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/07/14/True-Facts-Wild-Pigs/<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Richard Mosse made use of an unexpected color that made his photographs pop and more eye-catching towards its viewers. Th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/07/14/Visualising-The-Unseen/An aerial tram in Claughton, Lancashire, has been delivering rock from a quarry to the brickworks for 100 years now in a system that requires no power. This ingenious delivery course runs on gravity alone. That doesn't m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/07/14/The-UKs-Last-Aerial-Ropeway-Uses-No-Power/<p>Tomas Gomez of San Antonio, Texas was hitting balls at a Topgolf facility when it began to rain. He decided to hit one last shot before leaving. Lightning struck that final ball during its flight. <a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/07/14/Golf-Ball-Struck-by-Lightning-Mid-Flight/It's pretty neat to find examples of fictional mass media plots that eventually came true, even when you realize that movies have attempted to bring us fresh ideas for more than 120 years, and TV programming is a never-e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/07/14/13-Times-Movies-TV-Predicted-The-Future/It's bad enough when two scientists become obsessed with outdoing the other, but it's even worse when they go out of their way to undermine each other. That was fairly easy for O.C. Marsh, as his rival Edward Drinker Cop...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/07/14/Historys-Most-Notorious-Scientific-Feud/Princess Ka‘iulani was born into the royal family of the Kingdom of Hawaii, but it was only years later that she was considered to be in line for the throne. At age 13, as the next heir apparent, she was sent to En...
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