Proof (albeit not definitive) that tasty jams are tasty no matter what language they’re performed in, this is a video from vocalist Ja Khole Thaisii, who teamed up with bardcore musician Stantough to perform Nirvana’s 1991 banger ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ with lyrics translated into classical Latin. It still hits.
These are two videos of Paris circa the 1920’s that have been restored, stabilized, colorized, and remastered at 60FPS. The first predominately features famous buildings and monuments, and the second one more human activity. They were a trip to watch. To think that this was captured over 100 years ago.
This is a video of biblical scholar/The Flash fan Dan McClellan discussing where the H in Jesus H. Christ likely came from. You know I love a good origin story! Basically, it’s believed it came from a christogram (a letter symbol used to represent ‘Jesus,’ ‘Christ,’ or ‘Jesus Christ,’ e.g.
Previously: the men’s name version. In news that shouldn’t surprise anyone who didn’t recently move from an assisted living facility to a new home in the ground, this is a list of ten once popular girl’s names that have fallen out of fashion in the past century. Honestly, it’s hard
Sure, you probably think about the Roman Empire all the time, but how does it stack up against the largest empires in the history of mankind, ranked by total land area in million square miles? SPOILER: Not very well at all, it didn’t even make the top 8! Pfft, some
This is an almost 100 year old clip from Los Angeles that’s been AI upscaled, enhanced, and colorized so it doesn’t look like it was filmed through a potato sack. I lived in LA for ten years, and I have to admit: I didn’t recognize any of it. Of course
This is a colorized clip from France circa 1923 featuring some gentlemen participating in cycle-skating. Cycle-skates each had one giant wheel on the inside of the foot so you could roll around doing donuts to impress the ladies at the park. And you know how I feel about impressing the
Step into my time machine (sure, it looks like the same closet where we play 7 minutes in heaven) and take a trip back to 1971 and John Lennon hearing the recording of his ‘Imagine’ for the first time. He seems relatively pleased with the result. As he should be,