Atomic Bomb Hair Style

“Liliana Orsi, a 22-year-old beauty in Rome, Italy, displays her new atomic hairdo and the photo of the atomic blast which inspired it. It took a hair stylist 12 hours to arrange Liliana’s coiffure, so it’s not recommended for daily wear. It’s an old fashion and something dangerously new.”

- Acme Newspictures

(Source: retronaut.com)

Lilly E. Gray, “Victim of the Beast 666″

This mysterious grave marker rests in a Salt Lake City boneyard. Despite repeated attempts to explain the creepy inscription, investigations by the morbidly curious have turned up little about this “Victim of the Beast 666.” A few interesting facts were gleaned by sleuth Richelle Hawks: Lily’s name was mispelled on her stone (an extra “l” was added), she married petty thief Elmer Gray at age 72, but he’s buried far away from his wife in the same cemetery, and Gray died of natural causes in a local hospital. Anyone got an Ouija board handy?

A canine high-altitude partial pressure suit for use in sub-orbital biological research flights, i.e a dog spacesuit!

Orbital and sub-orbital tests with animals started in the 1950s and continued right up to 25th March 1961, when the successful return of the life-size mannequin “Ivan Ivanovich” and his canine crewmate Zvezdochka gave Yuri Gagarin the green light for the first manned spaceflight on 14th April 1961.

In the first series of tests, the dogs were launched in pressurised cabins up to an altitude of 100km, with the cabin and dog then gently parachuted to the ground. The second series of launches required full or partial pressure suits, such as the one pictured above, which is on display at the National Space Centre.

The intriguing story of the Andover Skull.  The information is sketchy but the basis of the story is that at sometime during the 1950’s a newly married couple, Mr F and Mrs B Morris, moved to Andover Massachusetts in the USA.

They were disappointed to discover the house they had purchased had not been fully emptied and that the attic remained stacked with books, broken furniture and other such possessions.  A year or so after moving in Mrs Morris finally decided to empty to attic and, in the process, found a heavy wooden box which had been nailed shut.  That evening her husband opened the box with a claw-hammer and together they discovered a large and disturbing skull. It had unusually big eye sockets and several pieces of the bone cranium were broken.  There were strange carvings on the front left of the skull but the most interesting part of the discovery were its canine teeth which were strangely elongated.  Overall the skull was larger than an average human’s and had a distinctive domed forehead.  Mr Morris glued the skull fragments together and apparently kept it in his study where he would show it to curious friends and visitors.  After some months Mrs Morris became distressed by its presence and insisted that it be reburied as she had convinced herself that it was demonic or at least the skull of a powerful Indian medicine man.  Instead, he allegedly took the skull to a nearby Museum of Archaeology which specialised in Native American history.