Sunday Links

Colourized image by Olga Shirnina

Translator and amateur colorist Olga Shirnina has an incredible talent for transforming historical black and white photographs into images like these: Dazzling Color Photos of the Legendary Romanov Costume Ball of 1903 Via

Take a virtual hike along Rainbow Mountain in Peru Via MetaFilter

You may be pleased to know that The Minnesota State Fair will NOT offer "doughnuts with syringes" Thanks Bruce!

14 Words That Are Their Own Opposites

Daddy, what are those cognitive scientists doing?  I believe they're mating, son. Via

Notre-Dame came far closer to collapsing than people knew. This is how it was saved. 

Those Eyes!

Pop-Up Trombone Have fun! Thanks Bruce!

According to the autocomplete map Fort Wayne is Seventh on Hitler's List'  and 'San Diego is Spanish for Whales'

An Ode to ‘On the Beach,’ Neil Young’s Most Beautiful (and Most Depressing) Album I am having a tempus fugit moment. Can it really be 45 years since it was released? I love it still.

The Copycat Towns That Replicate Western European Architecture

The Secret World of Air Traffic Controllers  Darcy Frey spent the month of November 1995 side-by-side with  controllers as the days counted down to the busiest American air-traffic day of the year: the Sunday after Thanksgiving. Thanks Bruce!

Did you know this: There Is A Time Traveler Running For President 

I’m 20. I Have 32 Half Siblings. This Is My Family Portrait. Via Blort

I Dreamt I Saw Khrushchev (in a Pink Cadillac)

This home in Soda Springs, Ca is right up my alley.

Michigan Central and the rebirth of Detroit A gorgeous photo essay Via Things

Follies of the Madmen  "Is it just me, or is the notion of an army of clones on the make for a lone gal a creepy thing?"

Where the American artists are

Exercise in space keeps astronauts from fainting when they return to Earth

Why Jack Frech Started Taking Journalists on “Poverty Tours” of Appalachia—And Why He Stopped This is a good story.

15,000 Years of Western Art On A Mug

Tiny Hedgehog Goes Camping You will OD on the cuteness.

Would you pay $31K for John Lennon's decayed tooth? 

The world's oldest surviving letter by an actual Christian contains a request for fish sauce. 

Titanic survivor Ella White’s battery-powered crutch guided her lifeboat to safety in 1912—and is now at the center of a family feud.

1940s Bike Girls: Fascinating Photos of Female Motorcyclists From 1949, Taken by Loomis Dean for LIFE Magazine  Via