Archaeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann and his wife Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann, with the assistance of high-intensity ultraviolet raking light and Infrared Spectroscopy, claim that they have uncovered the original coloring of Greek sculptures.
What we so typically associate in our minds with the words “Greek sculpture” is typically a smoothed marble creation in stark-white that exudes an understated level of [...]
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Ultraviolet Light Uncovers Original Colors of Greek Sculptures
World Map of Undersea Cables from 1901
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This absolutely fascinates me… what you see above is a world map from Eastern Telegraph from 1901 showing the break-down of the companies world-wide wiring networks.
You think of what we have today, and I’m still impressed that ships can spool out and drop down enough cable, long enough, to run wires across [...]
Call of Duty 5: World at War (Xbox 360 and PS3) Review
Summary [8.5 out of 10]
Call of Duty 5: World at War is a must-have COD title for fans of the series and a title dripping with enough polish, charm and replayability that gamers previously not enamored with the COD series might want to rent it and give it a try.
Introduction
Call of Duty: World at War [...]
The Way We Were…
Among my recent yard sale finds was this soon-to-be-ebayed cache of old magazines with dates ranging from 1936 to 1954. If you ever want to piss yourself laughing…this is definitely the ticket. The ads alone are worth their weight in Crisco shortening. Let’s have a look:
Straight out the gate, we have an ad for Ipana [...]
The Secret History of Star Wars
Are you a Star Wars fan? Then I’m about to drop some atomic shit right up your ass…
How exactly did George Lucas develop the script for the first Star Wars?
Why were the prequels so uneven when the originals were so good?
Did he really have a masterplan for six, nine, or even twelve episodes, and why [...]
Cloverfield Backstory, Mythos, Lore
NOTE: For those of you that don’t watch Lost and can’t understand what all the craze behind Cloverfield’s story is (why not just watch the movie and be done with it?) it’s because when J.J. Abrams creates a story, he sort of creates a fake world around the story (of fake companies, stories, backstory, etc.) [...]
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