Flares into Darkness

Click any image to enlarge  These are book covers, from the British Library Collection, of old  19th Century western pulp novels. The...

Early in the Cold War, before rocket power and ICBMs, both the US and Russia experimented with nuclear powered bombers. The idea was the a...

Click any image to enlarge Regulars will know I appreciate old scientific illustrations (some are here , here , here and here ). As re...

Click on any image to enlarge When I was young they scared us to death with atomic war. Fallout shelters, mutants, duck-and-cover and al...

The YouTube channel Exploring Abandoned Mines is the creation of a group of fellows who explore old, abandoned mines in the west. It feat...

Click any image to enlarge "Drums were beating, horns blowing, and people were seen all running in one direction;—the cause was a...

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Click any image to enlarge Although they've been replaced by transistors and integrated circuits, there was a time when vacuum tubes...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