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The close encounter, described by some sources as the most thoroughly documented and researched sighting of all time, occurred on this day...

Featuring the tracks “Give It to Me Baby” and Grammy-nominated “Super Freak,” the fifth studio album from punk-funk founder Rick James was...

mister jingeling : a dozen, beloved department store Christmas characters— see also —via Miss Cellania bubblenomics : pondering the conseque...

With news that it’s available as an emulator for almost any platform, we are reacquainted with the version of the Beginners’ All-Purpose...

On this day in 1981, the Coventry ska, tone-two group The Specials had their second and final top charting hit with the non-album single ...

On this day in 1981, a medley of Beatles songs reinterpreted as disco topped the US singles charts, launching an onslaught of similar remi...

Britney Spears, the Princess of Pop, is the only perfect anagram of Presbyterians, a mainline American Protestant denomination. Althoug...

Founded on this day in the offices of the West Berlin newspaper Die Tageszeigtung (TAZ) by journalist and information security advocate Wau ...

Propelling to the top of the charts in part due to this memorable performance on TOTP ( see previously ), Soft Cell’s reworking of the E...

Premiering in US theatres on this day in 1981 and featuring the acting talents of Kurt Russell, Donald Pleasence, Isaac Hayes, Ernest Borgn...

pigeon fancy : Emil Schachtzabel illustrates unnatural selection in prize breeds   act local, think global : a twenty-question quiz abo...

The first West German act to chart in the UK in the latter half of the twentieth century, the double single (A-side and B-side) from Kraf...

With iconic gull-wing doors and a brushed steel exterior , the first DeLorean sports cars—designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro—came off the produc...

Though the scientific riguour of testing and measurements taken was later subject to dispute, the encounter with an unidentified flying obj...

Passing away this day in 1981 (*1904) and having earned his stage name from a routine in which he declared himself to be “Sweet Papa Pigmea...

On this day in 1981, the Human League single “Don’t You Want Me” from their third studio album Dare climbed to the top spot on UK charts an...

Via two of our absolutely favourite fellow internet caretakers Nag on the Lake and Things Magazine , we are directed latest to the latest a...

Via the always superb Everlasting Blört , we are not only introduced to the sensational discovery of the so-called Riace bronzes in the e...

Made in collaboration with Boston Dynamics, we learn courtesy of Laughing Squid , 1981 Mick Jagger and the rest of the Rolling Stones ...

Originally recorded by songwriter Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club—featuring Thomas Dolby on keyboard, the follow-on version performed b...