The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976 – Flashbak
The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference […]
Blackstone Is Building a $25 Billion AI Data Center Empire
Source: Blackstone Is Building a $25 Billion AI Data Center Empire – Bloomberg
How the CIA smuggled Orwell and Le Carré into the eastern bloc
Source: How the CIA smuggled Orwell and Le Carré into the eastern bloc
I just saw the future. It was not in America
Source: Opinion | I Just Saw the Future. It Was Not in America. – The New York Times
Beautiful British Travel Posters by Henry George Gawthorn – Flashbak
Henry George Gawthorn was born in Northampton in July 1879. He trained at Regent Street Polytechnic initially training as an architect before becoming more interested […]
An Atheist Chaplain, and a Death Row Inmate’s Final Hours
Source: An Atheist Chaplain, and a Death Row Inmate’s Final Hours – The New York Times
Older adults share things they believe every younger person should know
People over the age of 30 were happy to share insightful pieces of advices for youngsters setting off to make their own mark on the […]
Curious And Unusual Facts About Our Extraordinary World (28 PICS)
Source: Curious And Unusual Facts About Our Extraordinary World (28 PICS) – Izismile.com
Ben Bril: The Dutch Jewish boxing champion sent to Nazi camps by Olympic team-mate
Ben Bril was a serial Dutch Jewish boxing champion who was sent to the Nazi concentration camps by a former Olympic team-mate. Source: Ben Bril: […]
Do I Have Enough Money to Retire: Young Americans Don’t See a Path to Stop Work
Source: Do I Have Enough Money to Retire: Young Americans Don’t See a Path to Stop Work – Bloomberg
Dubious Medicine on the Texas Frontier
If you got sick in the Texas frontier area in the decades before the Civil War, your options were all pretty bad. Source: Dubious Medicine […]
The Last Consolation Vanished
A unique and haunting first-person Holocaust account by Zalmen Gradowski, a Sonderkommando prisoner killed in Auschwitz. On October 7, 1944, a group of Jewish prisoners […]
The Photographic Memory of Native America
A new book by Taschen offers a moving and insightful deep dive into the complete portfolios of Edward S. Curtis. Source: The Photographic Memory of […]
Introduction to Poetry
Anton Jarvis · Introduction To Poetry by Billy Collins Introduction to Poetry <P> I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to […]
How Wall Street Billionaires Avoid Paying Medicare Taxes
Some of Wall Street’s richest and most powerful figures are using a legal loophole to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes earmarked for health […]