Police can use a mechanical boot clamped to a wheel to prevent a parking scofflaw from moving a vehicle until he pays the fine, but it’s a hassle. Boots are heavy, difficult to install and remove, and time consumin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/10/07/A-New-Tool-for-Parking-Enforcement-The-Barnacle/In 2013, pundits criticized the Obama administration for spending nearly $280,000 a year on three White House calligraphers. Here’s what you need to know about every art major’s dream job.1. They’re a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/09/30/10-Secrets-of-the-White-House-Calligraphers/The patent medicines of yesteryear contained some... ...year contained some horrific ingredients, such as arsenic , mercury, lead, and radium, and some that could g...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/09/15/15-Curious-Quack-Remedies-From-the-Age-of-Patent-Medicine/"Fictitious Feasts" project. Here a depiction... ...#berries #blackberries #redcurrants #blueberries # arsenic #death #sugar #murder #familymurder #silverware #...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/08/20/Fictitious-Feasts/The following article is from Uncle John’s F... ...lor: Emerald Green/Paris Green Active Ingredient: Arsenic How Did That Become a Thing? Until 1775, green pa... ...vented a beautifully bright green pigment from an arsenic compound. He called it Scheele’s Green, and... ...ortunately, nobody was ye...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/07/25/True-Colors-and-Where-They-Came-From/Frank Bannerman bought an island in the Hudson River in New York to store his growing stock of military surplus goods and arms. He needed to build a warehouse anyway, so he made it a castle reminiscent of those he rememb...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/07/05/The-Guns-and-Goblins-of-Bannermans-Castle/When Supreme Leader Kim-Jong Un orders the North Korean state media to send President Obama a message we expect blustering, bluffing, and lots of nuclear weapon-related threats.But apparently the state media has mastered...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/04/18/North-Korea-Channels-The-Voice-Of-Abraham-Lincoln-In-Letter-To-Obama/Ah, the things women go through to be beautiful&he... ...that later proved to be highly toxic, like lead, arsenic , mercury, and radium.Did you ever put a highlight...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/04/12/Terrible-Beauty-Ingredients-Throughout-History/How a musical truck hijacked an elite dessert and delivered it to the people.(Image credit: Jsellinger79)It’s the sound of summer: a string of jangly notes cutting through the sticky-hot air. The response is Pavlo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/04/01/The-Sweetest-Revolution-The-History-of-the-Ice-Cream-Truck/(Photo: Transmash-Omsk)If firefighters need to respond to a call to a bad neighborhood, this would be the way to arrive in safety and style.The Omsktransmash СПМ is the Russian Army's new armored firefighting vehicle....
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