2 posts tagged ‘interesting’
Every famous last meal ranked
Boing Boing,
The last meal of the condemned is a tradition going back centuries, although it's now closely associated with the death penalty as we understand it in modern-day America. While the last requests of infamous inmates like Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy are now the stuff of folk legend, has anyone actually bothered to sit down and rate their final orders? — Read the rest
Wallpaper specimens from Shadows from the Walls of Death
"Wallpaper Specimens from Shadows from the Walls of Death" is a book from 1874 that contains swaths of poisonous wallpaper from stores around Michigan. The book was created as an educational tool to warn people about which wallpapers to take caution with. — Read the rest