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by Tom Scheinfeldt

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Briefly Noted for March 17, 2008

March 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment

The content is about the same, but The History Channel’s new design is a big step in the right direction (see the Internet Archive’s very slow loading capture from a year ago for comparison). Food Fight. A history of 20th century warfare, “told through the foods of the countries in conflict.” Delightfully (or maybe it’s [...]

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Tags: Briefly Noted · Humor · Television · Video

Briefly Noted for March 11, 2008

March 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments

How to make a Leyden jar out of a two-liter Coke bottle, from MAKE Magazine. Top Ten Moments in Sitcom History. I think you’d have to put Lucy and Ethel’s stint at the conveyor belt at the top of the table, but a good list nevertheless. (Thanks, Jerm.) Prolific “junior ranger” Chance Finegan on the [...]

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Tags: Briefly Noted · History of Technology · Hobbies · Humor · Local History · Management · Television · Tops of All Time

Briefly Noted for January 13, 2008

January 13th, 2008 · No Comments

New Stella Artois website uses brewer’s long history, period costumes to sell beer. See especially “L’Origine.” Science Fiction Timeline of Inventions. Learn when the taser, credit cards were first proposed as science fiction. The History of LOLCats from G4.

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Tags: Briefly Noted · Food & Drink · History of Technology · Humor · Marketing · Science Fiction · Television · Timelines · Video

Years Ago

January 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I have a confession to make. I actually subscribe to very few of the amateur history blogs I mention here on Found History. 10 Years Ago looks like an exception. According to it’s German author, “Every day a historic event will be posted which happened on the same day but years ago. The illustrations will [...]

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Tags: Anniversaries · Art · Food & Drink · Television · Today in ...

Schill, Scorpions, and Louis Gossett Jr.

December 19th, 2007 · No Comments

We all know the Mitchell Report has been digging into ball players’ pasts. So, it seems, has Boston Magazine. In particular, they have found a few embarrassing skeletons in Curt Schilling’s closet. For sure, there’s nothing in the signed 1986 minor league program found by the magazine as offensive as performance enhancing drugs. But the [...]

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Tags: Film · Music · Sports · Television

Ridiculous, Ludicrous

December 13th, 2007 · No Comments

It has been a while since I posted in the Tops of All Time category. That isn’t because it’s any less popular. Here are a few (“bad”) examples: The 25 Most Ridiculous Band Names in Rock History The 10 Most Ludicrous Moments in The History of 24

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Tags: Humor · Music · Television · Tops of All Time

Bowie’s in Space

July 27th, 2007 · No Comments

One last music post before I return to Found History‘s bread and butter. If you haven’t been watching HBO’s Flight of the Conchords, you’re really missing something. Take my word, it’s the best comedy to hit TV since FOX inexplicably pulled Arrested Development from the air more than a year ago. It’s way too weird [...]

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Tags: Humor · Music · Television · Video

A Million Little Pieces

April 20th, 2006 · No Comments

This is a little (lot) late in coming, but I want to say something about this past winter’s Oprah-James Frey controversy. For those of you who don’t remember, the controversy erupted when Oprah discovered that James Frey had “lied” in writing “A Million Little Pieces,” the memoir of his struggle with drug addition, which Oprah [...]

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Tags: Biography · Politics · Television

Storm Stories

January 8th, 2006 · No Comments

Just like VH1 and MTV, The Weather Channel has padded its schedule with history. Filling the gaps between this week’s flood, last week’s blizzard, and the tornado two weeks from now, Storm Stories is one of the Weather Channel’s only non-news programs: Storm Stories focuses on the inspiring experiences of ordinary people who are placed [...]

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Tags: Ambient History · Television

I want my HTV?

December 28th, 2005 · 1 Comment

Many people have commented on the disappearance of music from music television. Fewer people have looked closely at what has been installed in its place. Whereas music videos were once mainstays of MTV and VH1, historical programming increasingly dominates these channels, especially VH1. The move towards historical programming at VH1 began in 1997 with Behind [...]

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Tags: Ambient History · Television