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Historical Thursday: Rain Inducing Rockets
After a brief(ish) hiatus, Historical Thursday is back! Spring has finally sprung in most places, so what better way to celebrate its and HT’s return than by profiling a device intended to change the … more →
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Historical Thursday: Rain Inducing Rockets
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wrote 2 months ago: After a brief(ish) hiatus, Historical Thursday is back! Spring has finally sprung in most places, so … more →
Historical Thursday: Flying Tanks
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wrote 3 months ago: After World War I, military development and testing had reached an unprecedented height. The recent … more →
Historical Thursday: The Underwater Aircraft Carrier
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wrote 3 months ago: When you put together the words ‘Japan’ and ‘Navy’, it generally doesn … more →
Historical Thursday: The Dynosphere
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wrote 4 months ago: Announced in 1932, the Dynosphere was marketed to be the “automobile killer,” a new mode … more →
Historical Thursday: Pompeii's Trash Problem
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wrote 4 months ago: When the ancient city of Pompeii began to be uncovered about 200 years ago, scientists discovered on … more →
Historical Thursday: Da Vinci's Clockwork Car
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wrote 4 months ago: Leonardo Da Vinci is known for his engineering designs and sketches of inventions that were centurie … more →
Historical Thursday: Sidewalk in the Sky
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wrote 4 months ago: Remember when you were a kid and you had to answer questions in school like, “What would you d … more →
Historical Thursday: Yakhchal - The Ancient Refrigerator
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wrote 4 months ago: Before the modern advent of the refrigerator, Persians developed a way to store ice in the middle of … more →
The Year's Best Historical Thursday Posts
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wrote 5 months ago: Hey guys! I’m on vacation this week so I don’t have time to put together a whole new His … more →
Historical Thursday: The Other Manhattan Project
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wrote 5 months ago: There are ideas that work in theory, but not in reality. There are ideas that sound dubious to begin … more →
Historical Thursday: The Eiffel Tower Bullet Ride
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wrote 5 months ago: Built in 1889, the Eiffel Tower quickly became a symbol of France’s modern place in the world. … more →
Historical Thursday: Agostino Ramelli's Bookwheel
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wrote 5 months ago: Information overload is ingrained into our daily lives. In the past 20 years the amount of informati … more →
Historical Thursday: Faux Paris
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wrote 6 months ago: Last month the world celebrated Armistice Day, the anniversary of the ending of WWI. While looking b … more →
Historical Thursday: Operation Little Vittles
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wrote 6 months ago: In the final years of 1940s, the Soviets enacted a blockade on Western vehicles and trains coming in … more →
Historical Thursday: Santorio Santorio's Life Held Some Weight
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wrote 6 months ago: Italian professor Santorio Santoria (also known as Sanctorus, Santorii or Sanctorius of Padua) spent … more →
Historical Futuristic Thursday: Tower For The Dead
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wrote 7 months ago: Architecture magazine eVolo recently held a competition for skyscraper designs. One of the more inte … more →
Historical Thursday: Mercy Brown, American Vampire
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wrote 7 months ago: We’ve all heard of the Salem witch trials, where innocent people were killed because of overbl … more →
Historical Thursday: Sokushinbutsu - The Art of Self-Mummification
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wrote 7 months ago: Hundreds of years ago in northern Japan, a sect of Buddhism practiced a now-illegal form of burial. … more →
Historical Thursday: Hugo Gernsback and The Isolator
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wrote 7 months ago: About a century ago, futuristic technology and writings of space travel became one of the foremost f … more →
