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20 Photos of What Sweltering Italian Summers Looked Like in the 1980s

20 Photos of What Sweltering Italian Summers Looked Like in the 1980s

Italians are built for having fun in the Sun.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 11 months ago in Wow

21 Photos of the Secret Cold War City the U.S. Built in Greenland

21 Photos of the Secret Cold War City the U.S. Built in Greenland

The Cold War rages, tensions are high, and the Pentagon tries to maximize every conceivable tactical advantage. The year is 1959.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 11 months ago in Wow

23 New Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1979

23 New Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1979

The 1970s was a transformative decade, and needed a fun year to close it out.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 11 months ago in Wow

20 Photos of What Having Fun Looked Like in the 1970s

20 Photos of What Having Fun Looked Like in the 1970s

Were the '70s the height of human existence? Your rose colored glasses say they were.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 11 months ago in Wow

20 Famous Assassinations and Odd Facts About Them

20 Famous Assassinations and Odd Facts About Them

Death comes for all of us — even stars.

By Carly Tennes

Featured 11 months ago in Creepy

25 New Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1975

25 New Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1975

With the Vietnam War finally coming to an end, 1975 was a time relax, see the world, and spend time with family.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 11 months ago in Wow

10 Legendary War Heroes You Probably Never Heard About

10 Legendary War Heroes You Probably Never Heard About

One feature of global conflicts is that the generals who cause them get far more recognition than the people who fight them.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 11 months ago in Wow

20 Polaroid Photos from the 1970s That Don't Need You to Blow On Them

20 Polaroid Photos from the 1970s That Don't Need You to Blow On Them

Can you imagine taking a photo, and being able to look at it almost immediately? Crazy stuff.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 11 months ago in Wow

37 Diving Suits Past and Present Looking Sub-Zero

37 Diving Suits Past and Present Looking Sub-Zero

Long before the cyclops at the end of the Spongebob movie made deep sea diving popular, there was a long and fascinating history to it, involving people who are just as famous as the yellow sponge.

By Neill Lynskey

Featured 11 months ago in Funny

Historical People Who Perished in Preposterous Ways

Historical People Who Perished in Preposterous Ways

Important figures from throughout history have been repeatedly betrayed, killed on the battlefield, or assassinated.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 11 months ago in Wtf

20 Forgotten Moments in History That Changed Everything

20 Forgotten Moments in History That Changed Everything

Not even history is immune from The Butterfly Effect.

By Carly Tennes

Featured 11 months ago in Wow

22 Questionable Toys We Used to Let Kids Play With

22 Questionable Toys We Used to Let Kids Play With

While some toys like weapons, vehicles and dolls have been around forever, other stuff has come and gone with the times.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 11 months ago in Wtf

20 Photos of What Working Out Looked Like in the 1970s

20 Photos of What Working Out Looked Like in the 1970s

The '70s was one of the first decades that took fitness seriously. Maybe too seriously.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 11 months ago in Wow

21 Colorized Photos That Bring History to Life

21 Colorized Photos That Bring History to Life

Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it. Fortunately with the addition of color, we can examine these historical photographs more closely than ever.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 11 months ago in Wow

26 Funny But True History Memes That Were Surgically Removed from the History Books

26 Funny But True History Memes That Were Surgically Removed from the History Books

They say that those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. Unfortunately there's quite a lot of history to learn.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 11 months ago in Funny

25 New Photos of What Life Looked Like in 1977

25 New Photos of What Life Looked Like in 1977

While fans lined up outside of movie theaters for the release of Star Wars, they did so dressed in the brightest colors fashion has ever seen.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 11 months ago in Wow

15 CD's That Are Worth a Nice Chunk of Change

15 CD's That Are Worth a Nice Chunk of Change

What's a CD worth? Well if you bought one in Japan, the answer might be "quite a lot."

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 11 months ago in Wow

25 Lady Rockers Who Totally Owned 1970s

25 Lady Rockers Who Totally Owned 1970s

Rock, and punk rock especially, was a genre all about pushing the envelope, and you can't do that with just one gender.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 11 months ago in Wow

21 Photos of What Being a Dad Looked Like in the 1970s

21 Photos of What Being a Dad Looked Like in the 1970s

Being a dad in the 1970s looked largely the same as it does now, just with more color, and fewer iPad breaks.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 11 months ago in Wow

14 Historical Misconceptions People Still Get Wrong

14 Historical Misconceptions People Still Get Wrong

Everything you thought you knew about history is wrong.

By Carly Tennes

Featured 11 months ago in Wow

23 Old-School Olympic Photos From Days Long Ago

23 Old-School Olympic Photos From Days Long Ago

Going for gold, since 1896.

By Carly Tennes

Featured 11 months ago in Wow

Vintage Photos of Carnival, Circus, and Sideshow Acts

Vintage Photos of Carnival, Circus, and Sideshow Acts

It's hard to imagine spending money to go and gawk at other human beings as a form of entertainment, but the 1900s were a different time.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 11 months ago in Wow

37 Fascinating Photos of What the World in 1972

37 Fascinating Photos of What the World in 1972

1972, as seen through a camera lens.

By Carly Tennes

Featured 11 months ago in Wow

25 New Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1976

25 New Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1976

With the Vietnam War finally over, 1976 was a year to relax, rejoice, and celebrate America's Bicentennial.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 11 months ago in Wow

25 Photos of Prison Life in the 1970s

25 Photos of Prison Life in the 1970s

Depending on who you were, and where you were, prison in the 1970s was rough.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 11 months ago in Wow

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