Two guys review Chinese junk food like the fried peanuts pictured above.
Day: March 6, 2005
161 Year Old Joice Heth
The Museum of Hoaxes has a good article on PT Barnum’s first “exhibition”, 161 year old former nurse of George Washington, Joice Heth.
When the public’s interest in her waned, Barnum rekindled its curiosity by spreading a rumor that Joice Heth was actually not a person at all, but instead was a mechanical automaton. People then revisited the exhibit to determine for themselves whether she was an automaton or a real person. Barnum displayed her until February 19, 1836, on which day she died.
However, even in death Barnum continued to use her to draw crowds. He allowed a public autopsy to be performed on her body for the purpose of verifying her age. Unfortunately for Barnum, the doctor who performed the autopsy declared that she could not have been older than eighty.
There is a cool twelve page biographical pamphlet here:
At the age of fifteen, she was cruelly torn from the bosom of her parents and her native land by one of those inhuman beings, who, in those days, to enrich themselves, made merchandize of human flesh.
She was imported into America, and sold as a slave to Thomas Buckner, an extensive planter of Virginia. She remained with him several years, when she came into the Washington family, who were then living on an extensive domain, called the Chotank Plantations.
Hieronymus Bosch Action Figures
So that the kids can recreate “Garden of Earthly Delights”.
How to Make a Webcam Work In Infra red
Nice little hack.