Without the paint tube, invented in 1841, the French Impressionists would have been less able to find inspiration outside their studios.

6art, painting, history,

You’re seeing real pictures, real time, real color. On the enduring allure of vintage snapshots.

6photography, history, vintage,

Woman inserts herself and her camera into iconic photographs.

6photography, history, time travel,

Japanese students taught almost nothing about World War II, and sometimes nothing at all.

6history, war, japan,

The Popemobile GPS is voiced by actor Sean Connery. Data dump of pope jokes, pope humor, pope trivia, and papal firsts.

6tmn, religion, history,

Tour of London’s execution sites.

6london, history,

Sept. 11, 1957: The day Colorado went radioactive. 

6history,

The economic history of the last 2,000 years in one graph.

6economics, history,