like Maira I find myself fascinated with odd topics. and Wikipedia has only fueled this curiosity.
these are a few searches that have occupied seconds, minutes, hours of my time recently. you can also google image search some interesting images of these topics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontacted_peoples
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Webster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin
*also an excellent movie starring Robert Downey, Jr. I highly recommend
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_killer#Female_serial_killers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_landmarks
Enjoy some random new knowledge!
Uncontacted peoples makes me think of the last act of this episode:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/432/know-when-to-fold-em
Act Four. Solitaire and Everything's Wild.
There's a part of Brazil that was almost all rainforest until the 1970s, and over the next few decades a million people moved in, cutting down the forest and building towns and cities. Monte Reel was the South American correspondent for the Washington Post in the mid 1990s, when he started hearing rumors of a "wild man," the last member of a tribe, who lived completely alone in this area's remaining forest. Reel's book about the quest to find and save this man is called The Last of the Tribe. The book also has a video trailer. (14 1/2 minutes)