Which Cat Woman Is The Best?

Anne Hathaway will be playing Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises. Let’s take a look back at the fierce females portraying the feisty feline villain. Can you pick one who was the best Catwoman? My absolute favorite is Halle Berry. Meooow!

Julie Newmar, the original Catwoman from the 1966 Batman TV show

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Mummies of the World

The Franklin Institute from Philadelphia invites visitors to an unusual exhibition called “Mummies of the world.” Every exhibit in this exhibition is unique. Here you can see the dog who’s remains were buried in peat bogs in Germany about five hundred years, and embalmed child, who lived 6420 years ago in Peru. The exhibition features forty-five mummies and ninety-five items related to mummification and embalming. The exhibition “Mummies of the World” was prepared with the participation of experts from fifteen European institutions under the auspices of the German Museum Reiss Engelhorn-Mannheim. The exhibition has visited many major U.S. cities.

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Complete History of the Batmobile

Here goes a real treat for all Batman lovers – a complete history of the batmobile! It is really interesting following the development and noticing all the changes that the design of the most awesome car ever went through. My favorite is the 1987 model and Tim Burton’s one from 1989, which one is yours?

The history of Japanese concept cars

A concept vehicle or show vehicle is a car prototype made to showcase a concept, new styling and new technology. They are often shown at motor shows to gauge customer reaction to new and radical designs which may or may not have a chance of being produced. Concept cars never go into production directly; in modern times all would have to undergo many changes before the design is finalized for the sake of practicality, safety and cost. A “production-intent” vehicle, as opposed to a concept vehicle, serves this purpose. Here are sixty six models of Japanese concept cars through the last fifty years since 1957 till 2009. Pick your favorite!

Toyota Proto, 1957

Well Known Mustaches

The mustache had a pretty weird history. Have a look at these images below and you’ll see some of the world’s most famous mustaches. Men of power, both political and physical, musicians, comedians, cartoon characters, etc. they all wore facial hair. It is obvious that only these two extreme aspects are inherent. There’s no place for inbetweeners in the mustache world. You are to be a real, manly man or quite the opposite a joke to wear this fancy face garment. Look closer in the history of mustache!

Groucho Marx

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The Cossacks ride again

Every year, for the last five years, each first Sunday in August a festival takes place in the castle of Azov that is located in the south of Russia on the river Don. Here in year of 1641 Cossacks managed to outstay Turkish siege and as a celebration of that glorious moment in history, every fist Sunday in August people dress up like it’s 1641 again. Have a look at these great photos and you’ll see that they really took care of the least detail to look as it looked 369 years ago, except for a tractor or a camera that appears here and there everything is well done. Enjoy!

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Chantilly Castle

Chantilly Castle or Chateau de Chantilly is located near Paris in France and from 1386 to 1897, the domain was passed on by inheritance to different branches of the same family, without ever being sold.

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Reminders of the Past – Photos by Burt Glinn

Burt Glinn or Burton Samuel Glinn (July 23, 1925-April 9, 2008) was an American professional photographer who worked with Magnum Photos. He covered revolutionary leader Fidel Castro’s entrance into Havana, Cuba, and photographed people such as Andy Warhol and Helen Frankenthaler. Glinn’s photos show such things as the social scene of the rich, the dirtiness of politics, and the humorous flotilla that called itself the Seattle Tubing Society.

Montana, 1954. Life on an Assiniboine Indian reservation

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The Dumbest Inventions of the Twentieth Century

The twentieth century was the century of inventions, and if we looked at the time line of historic developments and inventions, we’ll notice that our civilization achieved greater growth during that period in the field of science, technology, medicine, infrastructure, etc then in the whole course of human history. Technology, science, and inventions have progressed at an accelerated rate during the hundred years of the 20th century, more so than any other century.

We began the 20th century with the infancy of airplanes, automobiles, and radio, when those inventions dazzled us with their novelty and wonder. The expansion was from all points of the compass and besides all those great inventions some good, some bad that all had great impact on the whole human race, there were also a few not so successful ones.

Here is the list of the top ten dumbest and most useless inventions in the twentieth century. Have you ever thought about little umbrella over your cigarette that will make it easier to smoke in the rain? Or, what do you say about motorized surfboard? You name it, they’ve made it! I’m not all that surprised with the ideas, but I’m really surprised anyone actually built those crazy inventions.

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Oh, those Romans…

The Romans have a pretty bad reputation and they are notorious in history for their perversions and sexual orgies that used to take place on a regular basis. It is enough to have a look at some art pieces from the Roman period and you’ll see that it is filled with sexual charge. There are male-male couples in bed, male-boy, male-female (mostly from Pompeii period), you name it and it’s there.

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Famous drug addicts

Drugs are pretty long a human companion especially for some famous people and celebrities. Through history this has been well known and many great scientists, opera divas and artistic geniuses were abusing all sorts of drugs. You probably knew for most of them especially in the world of music this is a common behavior, but here are a few well know famous people for whom you maybe didn’t know that they were drug addicts.

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12 lesser known ruins in the world

While places like Machu Picchu, Angkor Wat, and Petra grab the headlines, these sometimes overlooked monuments to the past make for memorable visits…and even better photos. Enjoy in this amazing collection of 12 lesser known ruins of the world and maybe some of it will inspire you to go and visit them while you’re on your vacation, not only the “mainstream” archeological places.

1. Palmyra, Syria This ancient desert oasis of a metropolis, 200km from Damascus, is at least 4,000 years old and can still be visited by camel caravan.

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The iconic moments of the twentieth century

The twentieth century chapter in the book of human history will remain written in blood, because some of the most devastating wars took place then. The human race seemed to be at it’s highest peak of development, but also reached to some of its worst ideologies such as Nazism, Communism, etc. Beside all that, there were some unbelievable moments in sports, politics and public life. Here you can take a look at those rare and exclusive photos with the explanation under each one of them.

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