This national icon sat abandoned for decades.
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"Flashback to the holiday season of 2001. After years of filming, the first film in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring, is due to hit theaters, and expectations... continue reading
posted by ant 1 year 2 months 3 weeks ago • 4 views • 24:24https://youtu.be/h9AiJWk5QdU Dorothea Lange captured this iconic photo known as Migrant Mother in 1936. But who was the woman pictured? And how did she and her family feel about its existence in the... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 8 months 1 week ago • 398 views • 11:19Sick.
posted by w1ndex 5 years 2 months 1 week ago • 562 views • 14:26Saturday Night Live's cue card supervisor, Wally Feresten, gives a behind-the-scenes look at an integral and iconic part of the show's production.
posted by Mordhaus 5 years 3 months ago • 28 views • 6:53YouTube description: Follow along as Julian Baumgartner of Baumgartner Fine Art Restoration in Chicago works to conserve and restore this icon of Ave Maria. This piece was likely created in a workshop... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 417 views • 11:31YouTube description: The Multi Axis Trainer, or MAT, is an icon of space exploration and astronaut training. But other than spinning round kids at Space Camp: what's it actually used for? Thanks... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months ago • 1,017 views • 3:13YouTube description: The Ganges River is a highly revered site by Hindus and an iconic, historical epicenter in India. As hundreds of millions of people visit the Ganges each year, there is a dedicated... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 149 views • 2:26"... A Quiet Place star and deaf actress Millicent Simmonds teaches you how to sign iconic lines from horror movies in American Sign Language..."
posted by ant 5 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 14 views • 2:05Miss Info investigates how the Jamaican beef patty became a NYC icon. As the flaky meat turnover has infiltrated all aspects of city life—found in mom-and-pop bakeries, bodegas, pizza shops, and even... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 258 views • 12:06Born Eunice Kathleen Waymon, the concert pianist, singer, civil rights activist, and international icon would go on to change culture itself with her peerless talent, fiery charisma, and unflinching political... continue reading
posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 6 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 153 views • 4:59YouTube description: The song “American Woman” by The Guess Who wasn't ever supposed to happen. It wasn't planned, staged or pre-meditated. Yet you all know the iconic riff. Sometimes all it takes... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 1,835 views • 3:02The Coexist logo is famous on bumper stickers and around the world — but it's also at the center of quite a few battles. When Piotr Mlodozeniec designed the first Coexist logo, he had no idea how... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 10 months 4 weeks ago • 504 views • 5:33YouTube description: Today Ben explains the iconic Wilhelm Scream, where it came from and where you can find it! Though beware, you can't unhear it.
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 11 months ago • 102 views • 5:27"A ballpoint pen seems simple: press a button you can write, press again and put it in your pocket. Yet inside a clever mechanisms turns that simple push into all sorts of other motions. This video uses... continue reading
posted by ant 8 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 560 views • 4:44The history and workings of the iconic minigun, both in the real world and portrayal in media/videogames
posted by blacklotus90 9 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 914 views • 7:41A bug in Google Chrome allows malicious websites to turn users’ computers into clandestine listening devices, a programmer discovered. Tal Atler, a web developer in Israel, discovered that once you... continue reading
posted by truth-is-the-nemesis 1 decade 3 months ago • 47 views • 4:06Stupid movies and their gun lying.
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