“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.
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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