Eccentrics
Spaghetti Western Orchestra
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Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 13, 2011 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Humor, Movies, Music
Jetpack Flies One Mile High
Full video here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon May 30, 2011 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Inventions, South Pacific
All Roads Lead From Rome…
Raffaele Bendandi was a self-taught scientist who believed that earthquakes were caused by the gravitational influence of the Sun, Moon and other planets. Though he never attempted to provide proof for his theories, which he believed were intuitively correct, Bendandi scored a number of notable successes in 1910s and 1920s that led to him being feted as “the man who can predict earthquakes” and made a Knight of the Crown of Italy by Mussolini (who also banned him from making public predictions). Because of this ban, Bendandi made no further earthquake predictions until the 1970s, when he successfully forecast the 1976 quake that hit Friuli, Italy.
Bendandi also claimed to have detected another planet, which he named Faenza, orbiting closer to the Sun than Mercury, but, like his science of ‘seismogenics’, his findings are roundly dismissed by modern scientists as imaginative but nothing more.
That he even made today’s prediction is a matter of dispute. Many sources claim that the prediction comes from dates written on notes found after his death and do not give a specific event or location at all, and even among Bendandi’s dedicated following, there is argument as to whether he predicted the Rome quake is due today or in 2511.
Still such is the reputation of Bendandi, who died in 1979, that as much as 18% of city employees are reported to have called in sick today, and many stores are closed and shuttered. (BBC News).
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Posted By: Dumbfounded - Wed May 11, 2011 -
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Category: Authorities and Experts, Disasters, Eccentrics, Science, Weird Theory
Lucia Pamela
Learn more about the artist here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon May 09, 2011 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Music, Outsider Art, 1960s
The Brick Thief
Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 22, 2011 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Toys
Aleksandr Hrustevich
Classical music on an accordion? Is that allowed?
Posted By: Paul - Fri Feb 11, 2011 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Music, Russia
Spruce Goose on the Loose
Read about its trip here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Feb 07, 2011 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Hermits, Transportation, 1940s
The Triangular Lodge
No, it's not the Vatican!
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jan 26, 2011 -
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Category: Architecture, Eccentrics, Religion, Sixteenth Century
Mr. Ho’s Orchestrotica
The sound in the second clip is a little off, but you'll get the idea. Listen to better samples at the Amazon link.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jan 19, 2011 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Jabberwocky, Scat Singing, Nonsense Verse and Glossolalia, Kitsch and Collectibles, Music, 1960s
Santa in a Hovercraft
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 16, 2010 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Hobbies and DIY, Holidays, Motor Vehicles
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