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Context! I read a book earlier this year – The Museum of Whales you Will Never See, by A. Kendra Greene – about unusual museums in Iceland. The first chapter is dedicated entirely to the Iceland Phallological Museum, which as you may have guessed is dedicated entirely to the penis. At first glance, you’d naturally…
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Glasgow is a lovely city. In the time I spent there, I saw a few things that were really cool/worth talking about, but didn’t merit an entire blog post. Haggis! Liechtenstein! Sectarianism! Read on!!! #1 – A Really Mean Simulator 🛵 Perhaps it’s just because its inventor Sir Clive Sinclair died literally yesterday (at time…
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I wasn’t able to take many photos during this visit (I asked and was politely told no), so I’ve included some photos I found online to help illustrate this post. 14th September update! I was looking through the Happy Science YouTube channel when I realised that some of the livestreams show a lot of the…
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Context! At the height of the Cold War, the British Government constructed a network of sophisticated underground bunkers in the event of that a nuclear war broke out. These were designed to shield the government, scientists and other people they deemed important enough to save in the event of a nuclear holocaust, or at least…
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Context! Okay yes it’s #1 on the list of “unusual and interesting London sights” on Atlas Obscura. Highgate Cemetery isn’t that obscure these days, receiving a steady stream of Communists, goths, tourists looking for something quirky to do and (very occasionally) actual mourners. Highgate Cemetery is one of the few private cemeteries left in the…
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Context! “ENGLAND’S TROUBLES WILL INCREASE UNTIL THE BISHOPS OPEN JOANNA SOUTHCOTT’S BOX” For decades, weirdly cryptic messages like this could be found plastered on walls and buses, paid for by the Panacea Society. The group was formed by prophet Octavia (formerly Mabel Barltrop) in the 1920s. In a few years, the Society had thousands of…
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