“A Happy Christmas”
Bizarre Victorian Christmas Cards
Wishing all of you a wonderful holiday season…
Dancing under the mistletoe
By Malachi Rempen, Itchy Feet
and a
Happy, Healthy and Prosperous 2017!
With thanks from our friends at RockStar Finance, a cool old song updated and made cooler for us weird FI types:
Christmas 1933
The very cool message inside this depression-era card
A few more “gifts” for your enjoyment:
Life lessons revealed by rivers
First, we go to India and build a Royal Enfield:
Then we ride it up into the Himalayas:
Daily wind pattern over the US active map. Very cool.
The Sun in ultra-HD, cool soundtrack, too.
Traversing the Solar System at the speed of light. It is a BIG place.
By Malachi Rempen, Itchy Feet
The Beast, #2 in the 2016 National Geographic Photo contest
a hell of a lot more interesting than Walmart
One of two of the ten most dangerous places on the planet I’ve been to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGCBe1w0HmU
Another guy who needs F-you Money!
OK, Class, listen up….
Scarlett O’Hara or ?
Princess Belle or?
Both the pictures above are the same 17-year-old girl.
This is the saddest picture I’ve seen in a long time…
Little Istvan Reiner smiles…
The reason being this is the rest of the caption:
…shortly before being murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1943-1944
How long can humans go without: Air? Water? Food?
Portraits of beautiful women from the turn of the last century
It is well known that the European arrival in the Americas brought diseases that decimated some 90% of the native populations. But why didn’t it work the other way, too? This short film illustrates
Why there were no American plagues to infect the Europeans
Here’s a great book that further explores this and other issues as to how and why history has unfolded as it has:
Guess what kind of contest this guy won
“What you see in these photos is a peaceful interaction with crocs,” said the photographer.
Guess what photographer we’ll be reading was eaten by a crocodile…
LAFF, October 1945: the full magazine
What magazines were like in my parents’ time. The old ads are the best.
Finally, this video is the best primer I’ve seen on how to live a happy, prosperous life.
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Here are two guest interview posts I did for…
Physician on FIRE:
Christopher Guest Post – JL Collins
Millennial Revolution:
An Interview with the Godfather…of FI
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