Australia's greatest folk hero was Ned Kelly, who was a habitual criminal from a young age, but really made a name for himself in 1878 when he and his brother Dan has a run-in with police that left three officers dead. K...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/31/The-Final-Fight-of-Australian-Outlaw-and-Folk-Hero-Ned-Kelly/Coming up Sunday we have the only holiday dedicated to a rodent. Groundhog Day is actually about the weather, which we are more interested in than rodents this time of year, but in the United States, we have designated t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/31/Groundhogs-are-Important-to-Science-But-Not-for-Weather-Forecasting/Hachiogi Cemetery is in Hachioji, a municipality on the far west side of Tokyo. Like many public places in Japan, it has a public phone in a glass booth available to anyone who needs it, at the edge of the cemetery on Mi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/31/The-Legend-of-the-Haunted-Phone-Booth/The penny-farthing went out of fashion in the 1880s, despite the efforts of some modern people to revive the traditional bicycle. Perhaps Greg Mitchell's variant, pictured above, will re-establish it.Motorcycle News repo...
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