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the bag of nails (former)
from jimi hendrix posted in music by pete_nice
The Bag of Nails pub was a legendary rock venue/celebrity hangout in the 1960s.
Jimi Hendrix played his first gig in London here. It's also wear he met the guitar tech wiz Roger Mayer. Mayer introduced Hendrix to the Octavia, a sound pedal he had invented that added an octave overtone to the original note. Hendrix loved the sound and used it on the solo for "Purple Haze." Mayer became Hendrix's sound technician.
Paul McCartney met Linda on May 15, 1967 at the Bag of Nails while watching Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames perform. Fleetwood Mac's John and Christine McVie first met at this pub as well.
Today, the location is a private member's club named Miranda.
view full location details...nancy thompson’s house
from a nightmare on elm street posted in movies by pete_nice
Nancy Thompson fights off Freddy Krueger's glove of knives at this location in the original A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984).
The house was in disrepair until 2006, when it was renovated. Today, the exterior is very similar to the original film, except now the door is blood red instead of blue. Nice touch...
view full location details...lascaux cave paintings
from cave paintings posted in history by tacopolis
Miss Bathsheba's tattoo...
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from cave paintings posted in history by tacopolis
Benh Zeitlin, the co-writer and director of Beasts of the Southern Wild, was inspired by the renderings of aurochs in the Lascaux Caves.
One of the rooms in the caves, called the Great Hall of the Bulls, is dominated by four giant depictions of aurochs (the wild ancestor to cattle). One of the auroch drawings is 17 ft (5.2 m) long- the largest animal discovered so far in cave art.
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from cave paintings posted in history by tacopolis
On September 12, 1940, four teenagers and a dog stumbled upon a series of caves with nearly 2,000 different prehistoric drawings near the village of Montignac, in the department of Dordogne.
The artwork is approximately 17,300 years old, and feature extinct animals, human figures and abstract symbols.
The Lascaux Caves were added to the UNESCO World Heritage Site list in 1979. The caves were initially open to the public, but mold and damage from human exhalation and traffic threatened the paintings, so now only science nerds can look at the ancient art.
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