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By Matthew Schulz via spiegel.de Was the cradle of civilization also the birthplace of atrocity? Historians have been researching the most extreme forms of...
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Scrolling through my Instagram feed makes me feel old sometimes. Mostly because of the number of candid camera shots that people take while sitting...
As a young kid in America during the Reagan Era, the powers that be really wanted us to fear the USSR and every thing...
I remember seeing Kids when I saw a teenager, and thinking it was such a gnarly portrayal of being a reckless kid. I liked...
For the first time in modern western history, women have surpassed men in the tattoo department. It’s estimated that today 23% of American women...
By Matthew Schulz via spiegel.de Was the cradle of civilization also the birthplace of atrocity? Historians have been researching the most extreme forms of...
Writing around the year 1200, the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus recounts a vicious execution, taking place several centuries before his own lifetime in the...
The tarot today is considered a tool for divination or of the devil, but the first known tarot decks were the playthings of the...
One of the things that is a window into the past is imagination, and medieval imaginations were vivid. Despite living in an age of...
If you’ve been following CVLT Nation for a while, then you know we are unabashed taphophiles. There’s nothing we like more than music, art...
“[How] strangely they have decreased by the Hand of God… and it hath generally been observed that where the English come to settle, a...
Conradie Hospital lies between the suburbs of Thornton and Pinelands in Cape Town, South Africa. Decades ago, it was considered one of the top...
Early note, obviously not everyone will agree with my opinion that this album is the ‘greatest of all time’ in this genre. That is...
In the 19th century, death was a big event. From post-mortem photography to memento mori jewelry to the year spent mourning the dead, they...
When did going to the dentist become an event to fear? Looking at antique dentistry tools, I’m pretty sure it was around 7000 BC...
Imagine this – a young couple drives out to some deserted road. It is a spot that people call “lover’s lane”. They park the...
The Canadian province of Quebec, nestled inconspicuously between the Atlantic coast and the country’s heartland of Ontario, is known to foreigners for perhaps one...