But seriously, are these really any crazier than the West Edmonton Mall?
Seven Insane Soviet Projects
June 12th, 2007 · 4 Comments
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Mark Rayner’s latest is a funny in-joke for recovering Civilization addicts like myself. Related: uh-oh.Liberal Arts Education or Sleep Aid, You Decide
I generally mistrust blogs whose every post is a list of stuff from elsewhere, but this is a nice (big) collection of history lectures you can watch online.Did Alexander the Great Fight the Yeti?
As my man Head 58 says, “I don’t want to live in a world where he didn’t.“Holden's History of the United States
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The always worthwhile Zunguzungu is on a Teddy Roosevelt kick of late. Here he goes looking for the origins of Teddy’s big stick.Everything Was Open-Source, Once
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4 responses so far ↓
1 Jess Nevins // Jun 12, 2007 at 8:29 pm
I am *so* stealing those for Sekrit Projeckt Two.
2 Bill Brickman // Jun 14, 2007 at 12:32 pm
Ground-effect craft should fit well into Steampunk Star Wars. Assuming you don’t have to be going 240 miles per hour to have them work…
3 Mark A. Rayner // Jun 14, 2007 at 5:25 pm
Yeah, I thought the World’s Largest Hydrofoil was cool rather than insane.
4 Adam // Jun 26, 2007 at 1:28 pm
While working as a student at the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing [no longer in existence], I’d have weekly chats with my supervisor, a physicist. Once we got talking about really big bombs, and [this is probably bunk] that the reason the Soviets eased back on really big hydrogen bombs, was because they thought during some of their tests they had cracked the earth’s crust. Neato!
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