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Everybody is interested in bumps
A glorious phrenology masterclass by the “the well-known astrologer and psychologist” Miss Gabriel Dee, captured by Pathe in 1932 (and here’s more Mrs Dee, for those of you who can’t get enough!). And, curiously, more phrenology, this time the history …
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Netherwood memories
[Photo by Tony of Kill Your Pet Puppy on a visit to the deathplace of master magus Aleister Crowley, or what’s left of it.] A memoir by Rodney Davis, THE LAST DAYS OF ALEISTER CROWLEY, THE GREAT BEAST, AT HASTINGS, in …
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Museum of British Folklore
The Museum of British Folklore is an ambitious new travelling folklore collection and display from Simon Costin, who also happens to be a theatre set designer. The museum is housed in a beautifully painted caravan and is slowly winding its …
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Lunar City film (repost)
In honour of mankind’s first moonwalk 40 years ago I’m reposting this wonderful footage. .. This film shows the remains of ancient alien structures on our Moon, filmed by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on mankind’s first visit there in …
Tagged Curiosities, Images, Science
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Kunstformen der Natur
Ohh, the Wellcome Library blog announces that they’ve acquired a full set of Haeckel’s beautiful Kunstformen der Natur (artforms in nature). It consists of one hundred colour plates which are intended to justify Haeckel’s adaptation of Goethe’s “typological” biology. The “typologies” …
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UFOs over London!
From the Daily Telegraph: Derek Burdon was left stunned when he took a scenic pictures [sic] of the UK capital then noticed four flying saucers on the far right of the picture. Mr Burdon took the photographs 16 floors up …
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Howard Menger's Final Journey
Howard Menger, one of the most charming and colourful of the golden era UFO contactees, died on 25 February at his Florida home. He was 87. Reports Greg Bishop: …in 1956, [Menger] appeared on the Long John Nebel radio show, …
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The Turk and other curiosities
Fantastic photographs from continental anatomical collections by James Mundie. Over at New Scientist. Thanks Gnat Ward!
Tagged cabinet, Curiosities, Science, teratology
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Images du monde visionnaire (1964)
‘An educational film produced in 1963 by the film department of Swiss pharmaceutical company Sandoz (best known for synthesizing LSD in 1938) in order to demonstrate the hallucinogenic effects of mescaline and hashish. Still it shares many traits with some …
Tagged Curiosities, drugs, experimental, film, lsd, mescaline, michaux, sandoz
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Brass balloons and metal airships
Are these flights of fantasy predecessors of the mystery airships that haunted the US and Europe in the late 19th century? In 1844, Parisians with an extra franc in their pocket could wander to the outskirts of the city and …
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2010: America's End?
Perhaps time traveller John Titor was right, he’d just got his dates wrong. This from the Wall St Journal… For a decade, Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010. For most of that …
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