In 1993, the Walt Disney Company began quietly buying up land in northern Virginia near Manassas under the names of shell companies. When that happened in thee 1960s, we got Disney World. This time the plan was to open a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/23/The-Short-Lived-Plans-for-Disneys-America/This picture was posted at reddit with the honest question: "For purpose or looks?" As you might expect, people were throwing around guesses while having no idea what the real answer is. It's a scheme to deter skateboard...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/23/What-Is-the-Purpose-of-This-Brickwork/Have you ever heard of the TV show The Queen's Messenger? Probably not, since it aired in 1928. But wait! We didn't have TV until after the second World War! Well, we did, but no one had a TV set to wat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/23/Some-Early-Groundbreaking-TV-Shows/Even people who know history well often have a hard time comparing the timelines of disparate subjects. Which came first, Vermeer's paintings or the invention of the Burr truss? Amelia Earhart's date of birth or the deve...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/23/Play-the-Game-What-Came-First/High quality gold jewelry has always been out of reach for most people, and even more so in the days before gold electroplating was developed. In the early 18th century, a family of jewelry makers in London came up with...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/23/Pinchbeck-the-Lost-Alloy/The Marvel film Thunderbolts* assembles a team of antiheroes, who some would call villains, for a government mission. But, as you might guess, nothing turns out to be as it seems. Is this another case of making...
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