Flares into Darkness

In 2012 the U.S. Battleship Iowa set sail for San Pedro to become a museum ship. Accompanying her on departure was the WWII Liberty ship, ...

Roswell Crash Site  The Ogilvy & Mather ad agency put together a clever campaign for Tamya , a company that sells plastic models an...

Click any image to enlarge Although they've been replaced by transistors and integrated circuits, there was a time when vacuum tubes...

With tomorrow's inauguration looming Bill Haley & Comets' See You Later Alligator springs to mind. Catchy and cheerful tune t...

Morgan, in the comments to the previous post, pointed me towards Language Log's post "Just let some joy smoke sift into your syst...

Above is a video of the VZ-9 Avrocar prototype VTOL aircraft, which resembled a UFO, being built and test flown. The Avrocar was a joint ...

I'm not sure what this video has to do with the end of 2016 and/or the start of 2017; but it strikes me you can't go wrong with ba...

Click any image to enlarge  The end of the Age of Sail and the beginnings of photography overlap. These pictures, and those after the fo...

Charles Martin, one of  the original founders of Flares Into Darkness, who now posts to PJ Media, has had some health and employment issues....

Wicked Game performed by Vektormusic.

Merry Christmas and Happy Hannukah

Above is a video by Mbuvi , a Kenyan gospel singer. It is a Christmas song.  It revolves around the Kenyan tradition of returning home to ...

Click any image to enlarge “Who, and what are you?” Scrooge demanded.  “I am the Ghost of Christmas Past.”   “Long Past?” inquired...

Click any image to enlarge  From the 1930s through the 1970s the Aerolux Light Corporation made a series of novelty light bulbs that fea...

My CIA sources tell me -- and yes, I have unimpeachable spy agency sources so this aint fake news -- they tell me that, after hacking the ...

Click any image to enlarge  Prior to photography all scientific illustrations were drawn or painted. On the roster of all scientific exp...

Making tortillas in the Mixteca Region, Oaxaca: Making tortillas in a modern kitchen: Making tortillas by machine:

Click image to enlarge  Julian Assange isn't the only one with inside links to leaks. I too have my sources. In fact, my well placed...

Click any image to enlarge In 1665 Fortunio Liceti published an illustrated edition of his work De Monstris. Supposedly a work exploring...

The eight steps of the newest news cycle: 1. - There is an attack, using a gun, knife, car, etc., against multiple people in a public sp...