Mallorca, or Majorca, is the largest island of the Balearic Islands, which are part of Spain, and the seventh largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The capital of the island, Palma, is als… Read More

This prow-shaped mask with built-in snorkel and compass holder was invented by Calvin Gongwer in 1968, and used by him in a recent 22-mile swim from Catalina Island to San Pedro, California… Read More

“Nick DeWolf is a photographer of national renown and has recently put his talent to a somewhat unusual use in aid of his latest crusade. Nick has spearheaded the effort to get the Hip… Read More

In the early days of mobile phones, advertisements stressed their usefulness in business and staying connected. Mobile phones could go from car to office to home. These ads for Radio Shack c… Read More

With a Category 5 ranking, Hurricane Andrew was a powerful and destructive storm that struck the Bahamas, Florida, and Louisiana in August 1992. At the time, the National Weather Service est… Read More

Car junk yards, also known as auto salvage yards or scrap yards, have a rich history that spans several decades. These locations, once seen as final resting places for discarded vehicles, ha… Read More

Though the international film market was glutted with sultry European actresses during the 1960s, few could boast the depth and range of talent as Claudia Cardinale. Blessed with an extraord… Read More

A birthday card is a greeting card given or sent to a person to celebrate their birthday. Similar to a birthday cake, birthday card traditions vary by culture but the origin of birthday card… Read More

The old umbrella, for ages untouched by the forward moving wheels of progress, has responded to the spirit of the times with the addition of a new front window to afford better vision in 193… Read More

Costumes and disguises have figured into Halloween celebrations since the holiday’s earliest days. But it wasn’t until the mid-20th century that costumes started to look like wha… Read More

Perched on an odd three-wheeled framework of metal tubing, a U. S. Army pilot and his bombardier were pictured here at Riverside, California in 1940, getting in some ground bombing practice… Read More

The Long Night is a 1947 American film noir crime-drama directed by Anatole Litvak and produced by RKO Pictures. It is a remake of Le jour se lève (1939) by Marcel Carné. The d… Read More

In 2020, Australian sculptor and collector Eric Oglander bought an old and cumbersome scrapbook at an auction and published the photos on his Instagram account. This 830-page, 12-inch-thick… Read More

This 900-year-old door has been identified as the oldest in the UK. Archaeologists discovered the oak door in Westminster Abbey was put in place in the 1050s, during the reign of the Abbey&r&hell…Read More

In 1949, for railroad travelers, Dr. Igo Seeger of Vienna had came up with a sleep hanger that held the passenger in a comfortable sleeping posture while sitting upright.The hanger is suppor… Read More

Born 1921 in Staten Island, New York City, American fashion photographer Francesco Scavullo began working for a studio that produced fashion catalogs and soon moved to Vogue. Scavullo spent… Read More

The “Mouseketeers” were an assortment of variously gifted, mostly non-professional California kids selected by Walt Disney as the core around which the Mickey Mouse Club, Disney… Read More

A welcome sign (or gateway sign) is a road sign at the border of a jurisdiction or region that introduces or welcomes visitors to the city/county/state/province/prefecture/canton/region.In E… Read More

Taken after his star-making role in The Petrified Forest but before actually becoming a star several years later, these photographs capture a refined and gentlemanly Humphrey Bogart, images… Read More

The odd apparatus here is the Australian “co-graph,” which automatically maps the ground over which it moves. Named for its inventor, Lt. Col. H. J. F. Coe, the machine can be op… Read More

Erberto Carboni was born in Parma in 1899. After graduating with a Diploma in Architecture from the Academy of Fine Arts in his home town in 1923, he immediately began working as graphics il… Read More

“Dogs never bit me, just humans.” – Marilyn Monroe.During the first seven years of her life, Norma Jeane Baker lived with Ida and Albert “Wayne” Bolender. In 19… Read More

The 1970s were a time of unique style and fashion. ’70s fashion was the era of disco, bell bottoms, and leisure suits. While some may view the fashion of this decade as over the top, t… Read More

Victorian fashion consists of the various fashions and trends in British culture that emerged and developed in the United Kingdom and the British Empire throughout the Victorian era, roughly… Read More

Photo booths have been in the zeitgeist since the late 19th century. The earliest photo booth patent was filed in 1888 by William Pope and Edward Poole in Baltimore, but there is no known re… Read More

The history of apparel manufacturing parallels the invention of factory sewing machines and the rise of a middle class to appreciate and acquire multiple articles of ever updated clothing. C… Read More

Above Suspicion is a 1943 American spy film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Joan Crawford and Fred MacMurray. The screenplay was adapted from the 1941 novel Above Suspicion by Scots… Read More

Windows on the World opened in 1976 on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center’s North Tower. The restaurant was renowned for its floor-to-ceiling windows that overlooked Manhattan… Read More

According to the Fashion Museum Bath, this dress was made in around 1904 for Mrs. Ada Power and the dress and matching hat has been designed to mimic the classic Veuve Clicquot champagne bot… Read More

Born 1909 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, American actress Marion Martin made her film debut in She’s My Lillie, I’m Her Willie and subsequently played minor roles, often as showg… Read More

On September 7, 1996, Leonard Jefferson, a 29-year-old from Los Angeles, went to Las Vegas to see a Mike Tyson fight. It was a night he would remember for the rest of his life. He never saw… Read More

Bucharest is the capital and largest city of Romania. It is described as the cultural, financial, entertainment, and media center in the country with a significant influence in Eastern and S… Read More

Kelly Preston met John Travolta in 1987 while filming The Experts. They married in 1991, traveling to Paris on an Air France Concorde for a wedding ceremony at the Hotel de Crillon (on the P… Read More

Born 1889 in Columbus, Ohio, American actor Warner Baxter began his movie career in silent films with his most notable roles being in The Great Gatsby (1926) and The Awful Truth (1925). His… Read More

“I love animals because all they really want from you is love. Too bad that’s even too much to ask for from some people.” – Michael JacksonMichael had a deep love and… Read More

Until the early 1960s, there were still fishing boats in the heart of Paris which, along the quays of the Seine, were sought after by photographers. A romantic Paris, with old-fashioned char… Read More

Switzerland is a landlocked country located at the confluence of Western, Central and Southern Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north and Aust… Read More

Dressed in his official costume, the German police officer charged with the responsibility of opening bombs found in the mail looked like an ancient warrior clad in armor. The mask and paddi… Read More

Zonkeys in Tijuana, Mexico are donkeys (also known as burros in Mexico and the Southwestern United States; burro is the Spanish word for a small donkey) painted with fake zebra stripes, so t… Read More

An actress of the stage and screen, Maureen O’Hara (August 17, 1920 – October 24, 2015) was known for her depictions of bold heroines and striking on-screen presence. Appearing i… Read More

When you think of action movies from the 1980s, you think of Rocky. However, Scorsese’s movie Raging Bull is a sports drama that is adapted from Raging Bull: My Story, Jake LaMotta&rsq&hell…Read More

Born 1925 in New York City, American photographer Ormond Gigli became famous early on during the 1950s for his photographs of theatre, celebrities, dance, exotic persons and places. His work… Read More

Found in Chiapas, Mexico this is a skeleton dating back nearly 2500 years ago. Apparently, after examination of teeth it seemed to be a common phenomenon to beautify ones teeth by adding gem… Read More

This is the photoshoot for Madonna’s debut self-titled studio album Madonna. The album was first released in the United States by Sire Records on July 27, 1983. It was originally slate… Read More

Doors in roof and side admit a motorist to a new low-slung English car, exhibited in London in 1933. As the side door opens, a section of the top above the door automatically tilts upward, m… Read More

Born 1912 in Budapest, Hungarian actress and singer Marta Eggerth was discovered by the film industry in the early 1930s, and her career took off resulting in international fame. She made mo… Read More

Born 1901 in Bari, Italian illustrator Gino Boccasile lost his left eye by having it struck by a splash of quicklime while he was drinking from a fountain early in his youth. Nonetheless, he… Read More

Shortly after the Olympic gold medallist’s stunning performance in the 1972 Munich Olympics, the ‘Dead Loop’ was banned from gymnastics and never performed in high-level in… Read More

This 14th-century door located at Exeter Cathedral in the UK is believed to be the earliest known example of a cat flap. Historical records from the medieval period reveal that cats had sign… Read More

Born 1921 in Brooklyn, New York City, American actor, writer, and professional basketball and baseball player Chuck Connors is one of only 13 athletes in the history of American professional… Read More

A pioneer of America’s space program, Dr. von Braun stands by the five F-1 engines of the Saturn V Dynamic Test Vehicle on display at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville… Read More

The 1980s were an iconic time for the United Kingdom, and London was at the centre of it all. Short of a world war, there was probably no other period in which the social and political atmos… Read More

The Calhoun Shot, also known as the Immaculate Connection, was a basketball shot made by spectator Don Calhoun during a timeout in the third quarter of a Chicago Bulls–Miami Heat game… Read More

Fun and exercise were provided by a metal sphere devised by two French inventors in 1936. By using hand and foot grips within the ball, and shifting his weight in acrobatic maneuvers, an ath… Read More

The Lincoln Indianapolis concept was created in 1955 by Carrozzeria Boano, using the chassis and running gear from the 1955 Lincoln. The only time it was shown to the public as a new concept… Read More

These iconic images of Alfred Hitchcock serving tea to Leo the Lion capture a unique moment in the history of Hollywood. The photographs were taken in 1957, during a promotional event organi… Read More

Born 1929 as Rose Marie Emma in Geneva, Illinois, American actress Joan Taylor began her career at the Pasadena Playhouse. She met her first husband Leonard Freeman there when both were invo… Read More

If any single event encapsulated the massiveness of hard rock and heavy metal at the end of the 1980s, it was the Moscow Music Peace Festival, which put six megawatt bands – Skid Row… Read More

This strange-looking machine was built by a Worcester man, Mr. Harry Savage, about 1896. Mr. Savage worked at a firm of Agricultural Implement Makers, J. L. Larkworthy & Co., of Sansome… Read More

Born 1937 in Florence, Italian photographer, film director and television spots maker Franco Rubartelli worked for magazines such as Vogue and Glamour, and helped to discover Veruschka.Verus… Read More

Photography that is done by amateurs to capture everyday life is called snapshot photography. Speaking more broadly, if a photograph is taken for non-artistic purposes, such as to document f… Read More

The Sixties were a time of enormous change, both technologically and socially. The space race was on and the American culture was focused on Sputnik, the Cold War and jet airplanes that were… Read More

On December 24, 1971, just one day after she graduated, Juliane Koepcke (born October 10, 1954) flew on LANSA Flight 508. Her mother Maria had wanted to return to Panguana with Koepcke on De… Read More

Born 1945 as Maud Solveig Christina Wikström, Swedish actress and model Maud Adams was discovered in 1963 in a shop by a photographer who asked to take her picture, which he then submit… Read More

Rome is the capital city of Italy. It is also the capital of the Lazio region, the centre of the Metropolitan City of Rome, and a special comune named Comune di Roma Capitale. Rome is the co… Read More

To make reading in bed easier, a British inventor has devised “lying-down” spectacles in 1936. Prisms mounted in eyeglass frames bend the light rays at right angles so that the w… Read More

Born 1896 in Sun River, Montana, American photographer Clarence Sinclair Bull began his career in 1920 when Samuel Goldwyn hired him to photograph publicity stills of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer… Read More

Whitney Elizabeth Houston was an American singer and actress, born on the 9th of August 1963. She began her singing career was back in her local church. At just the age of eleven she perform… Read More

Frank Sinatra’s mother did not allow him to have a dog when he was a kid. He made up for it by having many in his adult life. The Sinatras had many different animals — from dogs… Read More

Born 1931 in Glendale, California, American actress Gloria Talbott began her career as a child actress in such films as Maytime (1937), Sweet and Low-Down (1944), and A Tree Grows In Brookly… Read More

To reduce the blinding glare of approaching automobile headlights, a novel eye shield has been introduced in 1936. Strapped to a band worn about the head, a metal frame extends from the fore… Read More

The Hudson Italia is an automobile styling study and a limited production two-door compact coupé that was produced by the Hudson Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, in cooperation… Read More

Born 1922 as Maxine Birley in West Dean, West Sussex, English-Irish model and underground movie actress Maxime de la Falaise worked for Elsa Schiaparelli in the 1950s as a vendeuse mondaine… Read More

During the First World War, camouflage took many unique forms, including this observation post disguised as a tree! Due to the nature of trench warfare on the Western Front, armies became bo… Read More

Because a patient with two broken arms was unable to hold a cigarette, authorities in a St. Louis, Mo., hospital devised the odd six-foot holder in 1938. A roommate lights a cigarette, place… Read More

Success is a business magazine in the United States published by Success Enterprises, LLC a subsidiary of eXp World Holdings, Inc. According to the company, the magazine “focuses on pe… Read More

Lucille Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an American actress, comedian, and producer. She was nominated for 13 Primetime Emmy Awards, winning five times, and was the recipien… Read More

These Polaroids Warhol took in preparation for a series of large-scale screen prints commissioned by Anthony D’Offay for an exhibition at his London gallery in 1986. In the photographs… Read More

A referendum on the Act of Declaration of Independence was held in Ukraine on 1 December 1991. An overwhelming majority of 92.3% of voters approved the declaration of independence made by th… Read More

“People said women couldn’t swim the Channel, but I proved they could.” – Gertrude EderleKnown as the “Queen of the Waves”, Gertrude Ederle became a true… Read More

Lawson tricars were produced from 1900 to 1901, and built by the Crypto works. Few, perhaps only two, machines were built. They were built to a design purchased from Pennington for the vast… Read More

Born 1882 Born in Nantes, French illustrator George Barbier was 29 years old when he mounted his first exhibition in 1911 and was subsequently swept to the forefront of his profession with c… Read More

So huge that its keys must be operated with the feet, a mammoth typewriter has been placed on exhibition at Atlantic City, N. J. in 1937. One of its giant type bars is seen about to strike a… Read More

Nobody ever had it as bad as the Sack—the Sad Sack, George Baker’s perpetually luckless anti-hero of World War II. The world was calmly to dump on him, and Baker made sure it did… Read More

There’s a weird assortment of sprockets and chains incorporated into a supergeared bicycle invented in France in 1954. The chains appear to run at random all over the framework of the… Read More

“I use my face as a canvas.” Nicole de Lamargé (1938 – 1969) rarely troubled the pages of American fashion magazines. But at home, in France, her success was unrival… Read More

Photographer Art Kane wanted to shoot Louis Armstrong in a contemplative mood, rather than the usual way where he would be playing his instrument, with his cheeks puffed out. Armstrong&rsquo&hell…Read More

Born 1920 in Berlin, German-Australian photographer Helmut Newton set up a studio in fashionable Flinders Lane in Melbourne in 1946 and worked on fashion, theatre and industrial photography… Read More

A collection of beautiful photos were found by Sam Salt that captured portraits of a young lady named Ina from the 1950s. The photographer seems obsessed by her but she seems happy posing al… Read More

Blue Babe is a perfectly preserved Steppe Bison, found completely by chance in Alaska in 1979. The animal died some 36,000 years ago, and was so well preserved that researchers were able to… Read More

The Leatherman (ca. 1839–1889; aged 49–50) was a vagabond famous for his handmade leather suit of clothes who traveled through the northeastern United States on a regular circuit… Read More

In the 1970s, Sweden began to see North Korea as a lucrative market. Swedish companies like Volvo, ASEA, Kockums, Atlas Copco, and Alfa Laval wanted to export their products to the country a… Read More

Born 1894 in Parsons, Kansas, American actress ZaSu Pitts made her stage debut in 1914–15 doing school and local community theater in Santa Cruz. Going to Los Angeles in 1916, at the a… Read More

The discovery of a pair of 2,000-year-old Roman children’s shoes in the ruins of Palmyra provides valuable historic context to the ancient city and the broader Roman Empire. Palmyra, l… Read More

The Ferrari 410 Superamerica was first introduced in 1955. The engine, based on a single plug 410 S powerplant, was now up to 5.0 L with 340 PS (250 kW; 335 hp) at 6,000 rpm produced thanks… Read More

Adolescence has always been a time of challenge and separation for children and parents but, before the twentieth century, teenagers did not routinely express their independence through appe… Read More

The skyscraper can trace its ancestry back many years, millennia in fact, before the existence of New York City. The book of Genesis tells the story of Babel, the Babylonian city in which No… Read More

The biggest horse in history was a Shire horse named Sampson, who stood at a towering 21.25 hands (7 ft 2.5 in, or 2.19 m) and weighed 3,360 lb (1,524 kg). With his impressive measurements… Read More

Born 1957 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, French actress Carole Bouquet was recognized for her work in Luis Buñuel’s surrealist classic That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), and in the in… Read More

The Victorian era was an interesting time for boys’ and girls’ fashion.Victorian children’s clothing for middle and upper classes were smaller versions of adult clothing wi… Read More