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13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CDLXXXIII)

1. Two Victorian Women building a snow woman, 1892 Found on The Gilded Age Society. 2. A Different Kind of Christmas Soundtrack, 1969 3. A Salesman’s suitcase of Christmas lightbulbs, 1960s Found on Pinterest. 4. Christmas in New Orleans Bucket listed. 5. A living Christmas Tree, 1971 Living Christmas Tree: carolers singing massed on stepped…

Greetings from Pioneer Camp, Soviet Russia

Did you hear the one about the Soviet school children who gifted a US Ambassador with a plaque of the United States seal as a gesture of friendship in 1945? It hung in his Moscow office for 7 years before the Americans discovered it was bugged with a listening device. True story. The school children involved in…

How the Last Great American Flower Factory Still Blooms Over Midtown, NYC

Once upon a time, a woman needed a parrot tulip. Not just any tulip. “She started with something like this,” explains Adam Brand, heir to his family’s 4th generation flower factory business, M&S Schmalberg. He picks up a few flat, flower shaped layers of fabric. “Then we took some little poofs, some hibiscus, all different…

This Guy Knits ‘Ugly Sweaters’ for Every Place He Goes

Not all heros wear capes. Sam Barsky, for example, wears sweaters. Nearly 200 of them at this point. The Baltimore, Maryland native has taken the internet by storm recently with his talent for knitting sweaters of, well, everything, from the glory of Stonehenge to the streets of Baltimore; an incoming tram, or the Hollywood sign.…

The Curious Career of Being a Human Crash Test Dummy

If there’s one thing Messy Nessy’s editorial team has in common, it’s that we’ve never quite been able to keep a normal 9-to-5. Which is why we love to learn about the ins-and-outs of the oddest jobs out there; the gigs behind the everyday things we may take for granted. Like your drive to the…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CDLXXXII)

1. Mystery £50m Gustav Klimt masterpiece found hidden in a wall A Gustav Klimt painting stolen 23 years ago from the Ricci Oddi modern art gallery in Italy might just have been discovered in the unlikeliest of places—inside the walls of the gallery itself. A gardener was recently clearing ivy from the building’s walls, the…

Podcast du Jour: The Reclusive Royals that Lived in a Crumbling Jungle Palace

Some stories never leave us. They take up permanent residency in our brain, resurfacing for years to come in shades of daydreams and just-before-bed thoughts. “The Jungle Prince of Dehli” is one of those stories. Declarations of “How have we not heard about this?” and “Just when you think every story has been told…” made…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CDLXXXI)

1. Cowboy Car Hops, Dallas, Texas, 1940 A woman from Oak Cliff (a Dallas neighborhood) made a complaint that she did not want to look at girls’ legs when she stopped by her local drive-in; she wanted to look at men’s legs. Drive-in owners thought that this was a great idea, and soon the idea of the…

Now That’s What I Call a Bedtime Story: F*cked Up Fairytales of Yore

It’s “lights out” for boring bedtime stories. Bye bye to the tired tropes of fairytale princesses, and errant children who somehow pull off the craziest stunts unscathed – I mean, can we just point out that Hansel and Gretel were eating someone’s house? Today, we’re taking a deeper dive into some second-tier fables that didn’t…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CDLXXX)

1. A Silver-gilt Foot, 1450 Now in the Landes museum in Zurich. This reliquary was made c. 1450 to house a relic of one of the Holy Innocents massacred on the orders of King Herod.⁣ It is rendered as a realistic silver foot wearing a gilded sandal. Although there are some pearls and a real…
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