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Although the origin of the word ‘walkie-talkie’ seems straightforward enough, there’s still much debate amongst etymologists. According to one source (the one you’re currently reading) the story goes as follows. It all began in the 1890s, with the first moving pictures. At the time, these were called walkies, as most early films involved people or animals walking. People required little …
Binoculars are as old as humanity, and possibly even older. But these particular ones, the BPC4 8×30 produced in the Soviet Union in 1980, are quite special. They are probably the most unique model since the very first pair (the identity of which has been lost in the darkest and deepest creepy crypts of time), and certainly by far the …
The Triffids were a mutated plant species that threatened to take over the world just after World War II –as documented in John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids. These plants were mobile and intelligent, and they were armed with a deadly stinger. Ultimately mankind all but wiped them out by spraying the planet with Agent Orange, a potent defoliant. …
