Precursors to "The Girl With the Green Ribbon" featured necrophilia, adultery, demons, and (of course) the guillotine.https://t.co/VWkXDvnGTp— Mental Floss (@mental_floss) September 25, 2023 A spooky story calle...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/09/29/A-Chronicle-of-the-Old-Old-Headless-Woman-Story/Graphic designer John Pasche was making a name for himself for his art deco concert posters in 1970, when The Rolling Stones contacted him about doing one for their 1970 European tour. They went back to him for some albu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/09/29/A-Talk-with-the-Designer-Who-gave-Us-the-Hot-Lips-Logo/<p>The first camera was invented in 1816 by Joseph Nicephore Niepce. Since that time, cameras have evolved and every person is now able to hold a camera in the palm of their hands. And we've had some very i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/09/29/Who-Holds-the-Title-as-the-Earliest-Born-Person-to-be-Photographed/<p>The ancient Inca civilization appears to be more genetically diverse than what we would expect according to findings by a team of international researchers who looked into the DNA analysis of the remains...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/09/29/Unraveling-Ancient-Inca-Society-DNA-Analysis-Reveals-Diversity-at-Machu-Picchu/<p>One of the concepts I heard when I was younger when referring to a person's facial attractiveness is something called the golden ratio. You may have heard of it, and it is used to determine whether your...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/09/29/What-Does-the-Canthal-Tilt-Have-To-Do-with-Beauty/<p>What little I know about equinoxes is that they mean that days are as long as nights. However, even that little tidbit of knowledge is erroneous, and I stand corrected after reading this article by Phil...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/09/29/A-Misconception-We-Have-About-The-Equinox/I haven't watched the new Barbie film yet, and so I wouldn't know exactly what the hype is all about, and why it's polarizing people. I can only venture a guess as to the social or cultural impact of the film, b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/09/29/Behind-The-Success-of-Barbie-and-Jaws/I remember watching an episode of The Graham Norton Show which featured the two hosts of Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond, along with Joan Rivers, and there was a bit in that episode wherei...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/09/29/Today-s-Ugliest-Car-in-the-World/<p>Scrolling through this collection of weird, eerily creepy, and at times, downright morbid, medical photos from the US National Library of Medicine, I cannot but wonder how or why these photos ever existe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/09/29/A-Collection-of-Odd-Medical-Photos-from-the-US-National-Library-of-Medicine/After having moved to a different country and then moving back home, I have learned a few things when it comes to traveling. I observed many people go about their trips with just one suitcase or even a small backpack, an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/09/29/Travel-Experts-Share-the-One-Thing-They-Always-Pack-on-Trips/<p>Making delicious fried chicken takes some skill and knowledge to do just right. If I were to deep fry some chicken, they won't come out the way they advertise in restaurants. If I could cook fried chicke...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/09/29/The-Secrets-to-Frying-Chicken-for-a-Crowd/<p>Take a gander to see if you know which city it is. If I were to think about it, it's obviously not going to be places like New York where I imagine real estate prices are skyrocketing. Perhaps, not San F...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/09/29/The-No-1-US-City-People-Want-to-Move-to/It's never a good idea to date your gynecologist. But plenty of women did when it came to renowned Parisian doctor Samuel Pozzi. He developed new surgical techniques and instruments that are still used today. Pozzi hung...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/09/29/Samuel-Pozzi-the-Love-Doctor/<p>One of the most difficult things to do when interacting with others and communicating is to find the right words to say and the proper way to say them. There are times when, even though you have the righ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/09/29/Nine-Phrases-That-Show-Your-Etiquette-Skills/<p>You might have noticed while you're traveling that there are some posts or fences that have purple paint on them, and you might have wondered what those meant. Is it just a sign of unfinished paint work...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/09/29/The-Meaning-of-a-Purple-Painted-Fence/<p>I watched a video on Youtube once of a panel in a conference, and as a final question to the panel, they were asked what they would want to have written on their headstones when they die. One of them jok...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/09/29/Witty-Headstone-Inscriptions/<p>When you think about urban landscapes, what first comes to mind would probably be the cities of New York, London, Paris, Beijing, Tokyo, or Barcelona. But over the course of history, different groups of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/09/29/Cities-Below-Their-Histories-Design-and-Discovery/Going to university these days isn't as difficult as it was back when they had only begun. There weren't a lot of places where universities could be found and most people who wanted to go to university had to travel far...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/09/29/Letters-Between-Medieval-University-Students-and-Their-Families/<p>On the day of her mother's funeral, Brisbane jounalist Amelia Oberhardt saw a photo that she had never seen before. It was a photo of her mom holding a baby with a young man standing beside her. What sho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/09/29/This-Mysterious-Photo-Kickstarted-a-12-Year-Quest-for-Answers/<p>My grandmother is 85 years old and has had moderate dementia for the past 13 years. We have grown used to her repetitive anecdotes or those moments of cognitive fuzziness that she experiences from time t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/09/29/The-Ultimate-Cure-for-Telling-the-Same-Boring-Story-Over-and-Over-Again/What do women find attractive in a man? Seems like the perennial question whenever you turn to a TV show like The Bachelorette where 25 to 30 men compete to see who among them would win the heart and the hand, i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/09/29/An-Analysis-of-Professions-That-Give-the-Most-and-Least-Success-on-The-Bachelorette/Scientists have discovered why the fungus Candida auris refuses to be removed once it has attached itself onto a surface. The difficulty of getting rid of it has been the primary cause of outbreaks since there w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/09/29/This-Deadly-Fungus-Will-Stick-to-You-Like-the-Plague/<p>It is no secret that the last Russian emperor, Nicholas II, and former English monarch, George V, shared the same blood, and many possibly blamed George V for failing to come to his cousin's aid when the...
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