Ursula Graham Bower went to visit her brother in India in 1937. While there, the British citizen fell in love with the indigenous Naga people of northern India, and went to live among them. By 1942, the Japanese were mak...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/29/The-Civilian-Woman-Who-Fought-World-War-II-in-India/Brainstorming sessions are designed to be a way for people to throw out ideas, no matter how outlandish, in the hopes that some kernel within them can be adapted and modified into something useful. When it came to ideas...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/29/The-Unsuccessful-WWII-Plot-to-Fight-the-Japanese-With-Radioactive-Foxes/<p>Lito has been living all of his life with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). He knew that he had to search for a medium with which he could channel his abnormally high levels of concentrati...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/29/Great-Masterpieces-On-Tiny-Leaves/When he was walking near his home in Brazil, Igor Venâncio noticed some kids gathered in the street. Upon checking what the commotion was all about, he saw that the kids gathered around a tiny baby marmoset (a type...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/29/Guy-Helps-Baby-Monkey-To-Reunite-With-Her-Mother/Paw prints and bird tracks that have been carved in concrete are some of the cute little things that you will see in your life. These prints can be found in roads, sidewalks, and in construction sites. For Carl Mehling,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/29/This-Guy-Loves-Urban-Fossils/<p>A 3D facial reconstruction of an Egyptian boy was revealed by European researchers. The boy was estimated to have been mummified during the first century A.D., and the digital reconstruction resembles a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/29/3D-Reconstruction-Reveals-The-Face-Of-Mummified-Egyptian-Child/To celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, the house where the Banks family lived was made available to rent out through Airbnb. Will Smith took the opportunity to go visit it himself, and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/29/A-Tour-of-the-iFresh-Princei-House/For the 6th year, Katmai National Park and Preserve is staging Fat Bear Week, a tournament to crown the bear with the most successful weight gain of the year. While unhealthy for humans, a substantial layer of fat is cru...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/29/Fat-Bear-Week-2020/Firefly was a 2002 Joss Whedon TV series that was canceled after only 11 of its 14 episodes were aired. However, later analysis blamed Fox TV for the series' low viewership, as they aired the episodes out of ord...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/29/An-Honest-Trailer-for-iFireflyi/How could scientists in the UK hear an underwater explosion 19,000 kilometers away in Australia? It's not an experiment you could reproduce in a pool, even a very large one, because the speed of sound is more variable th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/29/How-To-Hear-Sounds-Halfway-Around-The-World/<p>When it comes to a buying laptop, the rule of thumb is don’t go cheap. This means that you really have to save money in order to buy a decent laptop, but it is guaranteed that it will be worth it i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/29/Comparing-Two-350-Laptops/<p>Here’s a writing prompt for you: an alternate universe where we humans did everything in an aggressive manner, whether it’s opening a door, or putting the trash bag into the trash bin. But if...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/29/What-If-People-Did-Everything-Aggressively/Botswana — A few months ago, as they flew over the Okavango Panhandle, conservationists saw a horrifying sight. Around 356 elephants lay lifeless on the ground. Poachers were not to blame for this one, as the tusks...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/29/Hundreds-of-Elephants-Dropped-Dead-In-Botswana/It is only reasonable to think that past and present employees of Sony Interactive Entertainment could be prioritized when they order the video game consoles that they develop, but it seems that that isn’t the case...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/29/The-Former-PlayStation-Vice-President-Couldn-t-Even-Pre-Order-A-PS5/This painting of a Pekingese dog was produced by artrist Friedrich Wilhelm Keyl in 1861. While we don't know for sure whether the dog was male of female, we know its name was Looty. At the time, Pekingese dogs were found...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/29/Looty-the-Famous-Pekingese/Why would anyone want to climb a tall pole, such as a flag pole, and stay there for any length of time? Fame and fortune, of course! It wasn't so easy to go viral 100 years ago, so to grab attention, one had to do someth...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/29/The-Mad-1920s-Fad-of-Pole-Sitting/Chick E Poo is a parrot who lives in Woodinville, Washington. She sings her operatic solos constantly. She must have been exposed to lots of arias, but she sings her own version, often incorporating her own lyrics, like...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/29/Chick-E-Poo-Sings-Opera/The Rocky Horror Picture Show was released in the US on September 26, 1975, about six weeks after its British premiere, which means the movie is now 45 years old. It wasn't an immediate hit, but found new life a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/29/14-Facts-About-The-Rocky-Horror-Picture-Show-for-Its-45th-Anniversary/<p>An important piece of rock art discovered on the Wessel Islands depicted ancient hunters harpooning a large whale. Sure, it’s an ancient rock artwork of ancient people fishing, but what is its sign...
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