Tom BetGeorge has a real challenge to outdo himself with his holiday light shows. This Christmas, the computerized lights are supplemented by projections, laser lights, and fireworks, too! The segment above is a medley o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/07/Tom-BetGeorge-Pulls-Out-All-the-Stops-For-His-2024-Christmas-Light-Show/You might not know the name Henry Every, but he was the pirate who made sailors want to be pirates. He gave the occupation its romantic aura because in 1695 he pulled off the most lucrative act of piracy in history, and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/07/Henry-Every-the-King-of-Pirates/On December 7, 1941 -- 83 years ago today -- US Navy Seaman Second Class John C. Auld died in battle while serving on the USS Oklahoma. He was one of 2,403 American servicemen who fell that day.CBS News reports...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/07/Sailor-Who-Died-at-Pearl-Harbor-Finally-Identified/Colossal introduces us to the works of Caroline Dewison. Her website appropriately named A House of Wonders is filled with wondrously detailed tiny dioramas of scenes from nature. They are little worlds filled with the e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/07/Miniature-Dioramas-with-Flying-Saucers-and-Mystical-Beasts/This supreme act of gallantry and masculine virtue took place at the Fort Severn First Nation on the shores of Hudson Bay in northern Ontario. BBC News reports that a polar bear attacked the man's wife. He responded by l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/07/Canada-Man-Jumps-on-Polar-Bear-to-Save-His-Wife/Insect metamorphosis is astounding. We know that a caterpillar is the larval stage of a butterfly or moth. When they form a chrysalis and change into an adult, all their cells are ripped apart into a mass of living goo,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/07/The-Mystery-of-a-Butterflys-Memories/
