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The Other NRA (Or, How The Philadelphia Eagles Got Their Name)
Fun fact: The Philadelphia Eagles got their name from the logo for one of FDR's New Deal programs--PHOTO:
You Should Be Poaching Eggs All the Time
How to make your poached eggs look as perfect as this--PHOTO: #instructions #slatedishes
What to Bring to a War: A Packing List for WWII Army Nurses
How to pack for WWII--PHOTO:
Strange and Lovely Starburst Galaxy Seen by Hubble
The strange and lovely wreckage of a cosmic collision--PHOTO:
Eleanor Roosevelt's License to Pack Heat
Eleanor Roosevelt had a gun license that made her look like an OG--PHOTO:
What's Wrong With This Picture?
Breast Cancer Awareness Month can sometimes make things very confusing color-wise--PHOTO:
How That Nineteenth-Century Handwriting Got So Pretty
Why cursive handwriting from the late-nineteenth-century is so universally beautiful--PHOTO:
"God Sleepeth Not": Helen Keller's Blistering Letter to Book-Burning German Students
80 years ago, Hellen Keller wrote this blistering letter to German students denouncing book-burnings--PHOTO: #heroes
Google Shuts Down SMS Search, Angers People Who Had Forgotten It Existed
Google Shuts Down SMS Search, Angers People Who Had Forgotten It Existed--PHOTO:
“RT @kaycee_kay: #badteacher drew a mustache on a kid's school photo. Egged on by laughing students, drew an "L" on the forehead of another”
Late Arrivals, Goldfish, and Guinea Pigs: Unofficial Soldiers' Clubs of WWII
If you were trapped behind enemy lines during WWII and somehow escaped, you got this certificate--PHOTO:
Stunning Picture of the Sun Shows It's Not as Quiet as You Think
The Sun is a mass of incandescent gas. It's also terrifyingly huge and magnificent--PHOTO:
The Onion Apparently Hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army
Here are those seemingly hacked @TheOnion tweets that the have since been deleted--PHOTO:
A Weak Solar Flare Triggers a Gorgeous Spire of Plasma
The Sun had a bit of a hissy fit yesterday--PHOTO:
Twitter / SciencePorn: On September 11, 2001 there ...
9-11 photo taken from space station:
Calling E.T.: Phenomenal Photos of a Silhouetted Cyclist and the Moonrise
One of the most beautiful images of a moonrise silhouette you will ever see--PHOTO:
Calling E.T.: Phenomenal Photos of a Silhouetted Cyclist and the Moonrise
One of the most beautiful images of a moonrise silhouette you will ever see--PHOTO:
Theodore Roosevelt's White House Bird List
Teddy Roosevelt took bird-watching intensely seriously--PHOTO: #birds #conservation
Netflix Is Changing. Watch These Movies Tonight.
Netflix just purged a bunch of titles and is messing with your queue design--PHOTO: #icymi
German Caricatures of Napoleon's Army "In Shambles"
Even Napoleon's great French army had a "surrender monkey" reputation--PHOTO:
