Archive for February 12th, 2025

A Menu for a Week (Where Every Meal is the Same)

The UK organization Services Archaeology and Heritage Association posted this "average weekly diet" of a working class family in Oxfordshire in 1912. The graphic comes from the 1917 study "How the Labourer Lives: A Study...

https://www.neatorama.com/2025/02/12/A-Menu-for-a-Week-Where-Every-Meal-is-the-Same/

How Cup Stacking Became a Part of Your Gym Class

For about ten years in the early 21st century, there was a craze for competitive cup stacking, also called sport stacking or speed stacking. It consisted up stacking cups in certain forms and unstacking them as fast as y...

https://www.neatorama.com/2025/02/12/How-Cup-Stacking-Became-a-Part-of-Your-Gym-Class/

Curley the Crow: The Scout and the Con Man

In 1876, General George Custer met his end at the Battle of Little Bighorn. The armies of the Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho left no survivors among the US 7th Cavalry Regiment. It was days before the rest of the...

https://www.neatorama.com/2025/02/12/Curley-the-Crow-The-Scout-and-the-Con-Man/

11 February 1938: The First Science Fiction Television Program Airs

Karel Čapek (1890-1938) was a Czech writer and early developer of the science fiction genre. He is credited with introducing the word "robot" into popular usage in his 1920 play R.U.R., which stands for Ros...

https://www.neatorama.com/2025/02/12/11-February-1938-The-First-Science-Fiction-Television-Program-Airs/
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