Things You’ve Never Heard Of – Page 2

September 28, 2019September 28, 2019Things You've Never Heard Of, Where Did This Person Go?

Zona Sage and Paul Camera: Progression, But Not Fast Enough

Sharpen your knife, go back in the past, and slice off any section. It all says something. Everything is significant, every mote […]

September 28, 2019September 28, 2019ApexUSA, Things You've Never Heard Of

Long-Forgotten G.I. Coffeehouses: Hotbeds of Anti-War Dissent

In this age of freely flowing words–often too many of them–it’s hard to imagine a day when conversation actually had to be […]

February 19, 2019February 19, 2019Things You've Never Heard Of

Strange “Child Christians” Sect of 19th Century San Francisco

The verse in the Bible, “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought […]

February 19, 2019February 19, 20191960s, Dissecting Reality, Things You've Never Heard Of

YouTube’s Video Discovery System is Creepy

As if we needed another example of how technology is creeping into our brains, how about this one: YouTube’s Video Discovery System? […]

December 4, 2018December 4, 20181940s, 1950s, Things You've Never Heard Of, Where Did This Person Go?

Man-Eating Sex Queen of Great Neck, New York, Dorothea Matthews

This English Tudor house, located at 201 Clent Road, Great Neck, New York, may not look like much of a love nest. […]

November 9, 2018November 12, 20181960s, 1970s, Things You've Never Heard Of

Before Borderline Bar & Grill Was Charley Brown’s Restaurant, Thousand Oaks

Charley Brown's Restaurant, Marina Del Rey 1960s

The Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, California, site of the November 7, 2018 shooting of 12 people, has been around […]

November 3, 2018December 5, 20251940s, Things You've Never Heard Of

Woody Guthrie’s Song “Deportee”: Connecting Names With Bodies

It was a plane crash that killed 32 people, largely Mexican nationals, and spawned Woody Guthrie’s poem that later became the song […]

October 19, 2018October 23, 20181960s, Cutaway Drawings and Cross-Sections, Things You've Never Heard Of

Capping San Francisco’s Panhandle Freeway: a Plan That Never Happened

San Francisco Panhandle Freeway Cap 1967, Cross-Section

The plan made a lot of sense. If you were going to have a freeway running right through San Francisco’s Panhandle, which […]

October 15, 2018October 15, 2018Things You've Never Heard Of

Pink Floyd in 1889

Fans of Pink Floyd know the origin story by heart. Band member Syd Barrett combined the names of two blues musicians Pink […]

April 30, 2018June 14, 2018Purveyors of Dark Places, The Part That Nobody Reads, Things You've Never Heard Of

Let’s All Check on Senator Mary Landrieu’s Fishing Camp

History doesn’t always cooperate with us. The narrative that we are continually constructing often runs at odds with reality. Our outrage culture has […]