Before Google, you pretty much had to take up smoking to find the answer to the daily conundrums of life, as this collection of old cigarette cards shows.
A short film from 1965 captures the art of axe-making in its final days.
Once upon a time, bees across Europe were routinely informed of matters concerning their keeper’s lives. And if they weren’t ‘put into mourning’ after their keeper’s death, things would go astray.
Put away that straight razor: these lumberjacks will show you a thing or two about shaving.
It still counts as a leg day if you just read an article about it.
During the Cold War, America’s leading spy agency relied on an unusual weapon to stop its employees spilling state secrets: motivational posters.
How a brotherly brainstorm caused the biggest publishing event since the invention of the printing press.
Imagine hand-drawing an atlas of the whole Western world, without the use of satellites. These Soviet cartographers came startlingly close.
Merry Christmas! Now please enjoy these archival photos of sinister-looking Santas from the 19th century.
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