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Drummer Gene Krupa and Ethel Smith in the 1945 musical comedy film George White's Scandals. Known as the "Empress of the Hammond," Ethel Smith popularized upbeat pop and Latin styles on the electric organ during the 1940s.

Best known for his whimsical illustrations, artist Louis Wain experienced a drastic decline in his mental health later in life and was diagnosed with schizophrenia, spending his final 15 years in psychiatric care. His later paintings of cats evolved from realistic portraits into increasingly psychedelic, kaleidoscopic, and abstract geometric patterns.

"Bazaar" (Базар), the sole surviving fragment of the lost 1933 Soviet animated film The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda. Most of the completed feature was stored at the Lenfilm archives and tragically destroyed in a fire during the 1941 siege of Leningrad.

A visitor standing next to one of the massive 32-foot metal pipes of the grand pipe organ at the Royal Albert Hall in London. 1932. {📸 E.O. Hoppé}

Children undergoing "sun-ray treatment" at the Cheyne Hospital for Children in London, 1928, a practice known as heliotherapy or phototherapy. During the early 20th century, artificial ultraviolet (UV) light lamps were widely celebrated as a medical breakthrough.

How To Reform Husbands By Certain Kinds Of Foods (Akron Beacon Journal 1907)

Colorized mugshot taken in 1895 of 18-year-old Carl Wilhelm Strand “Piggen”, a Swedish blacksmith sentenced for stealing 15 dozen eggs from his former employer.

[1862] Edwin Chamberlain of Company G, 11th New Hampshire Infrantry Regiment in sergeant’s Union army uniform with guitar.

#WordOfTheDay TYNDALL EFFECT The scattering of light by tiny, suspended particles in a colloid—such as mist, dust, or water droplets—which makes the path of a light beam clearly visible to the eye. Named after 19th-century British physicist John Tyndall, who first studied and described the scattering of light by small suspended particles extensively.

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Creepy Halloween Animatronics at the American Treasure Tour Museum, a massive pop culture shrine in Oaks, Pennsylvania. It houses an extraordinary, eclectic collection of over a million pieces of Americana, vintage memorabilia, and mechanical oddities.

This 18th century Italian Hobnail Floor Safe has an elaborate and unique four-key locking system and a specialized pick, needing collaboration between multiple keyholders.

The stone carvings of the 12th-century Hoysaleswara Temple in Halebidu, Karnataka, are renowned world-class masterpieces of medieval Hoysala architecture, carved intricately from soft soapstone.

A rock crystal ring masterfully carved into the shape of a sphinx. It dates to the 19th or 20th Dynasty (circa 1295-1070 BCE).

Award-Winning Photo From Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition Microscopic view of an inkjet printer depositing ink onto paper by Ole Bielfeldt Technique: Slow-Motion, Image Stacking Magnification: 20X (Objective Lens Magnification)

In 2009, a 200-lb pet chimpanzee named Travis attacked Charla Nash in Stamford, Connecticut, tearing off her hands, nose, lips and eyelids before police shot the animal dead. She later received a full face transplant in one of the most extreme documented captive-animal maulings.

Siesta Origami shows how the traditional paper-folding technique can be used to make an intricate model of a mechanical typewriter from a single sheet of paper.

A Chinese company demonstrated its new solar panel-cleaning drone by washing a dog.

In the western Sindh province of Pakistan, the floodwaters rose so quickly and stayed for so long—taking more than six months to fully recede—that millions of spiders were forced to seek refuge up in the tree canopies to survive.

The El Toro Loco monster truck is iconic for its bright orange custom bull body, massive horns, snarling teeth, and a built-in system that allows the driver to "snort" smoke out of its nose at the press of a button.