Thread by @drskyskull

Sherlock Holmes wasn't afraid to throw fists. From a 1904 issue of The Strand.

Yep every photograph of a school from the early 1900s looks like a scene you encounter in a haunted house just before all the children unhinge their jaws and rush at you

From an interview with Pierre Curie. The assistant to the Curies, M. Danne, wasn't having it when the interviewer tried to give credit to Pierre alone.

UM, IF IT'S GLOWING THAT MUCH, YOU MIGHT WANT TO TAKE A STEP BACK. OR LIKE 500 STEPS BACK

There's an entire article about balancing shit in a weird way.

The shape of this puzzle hits a little differently today than it did in 1904.

From a story in the magazine. Life goals?

Just as I am laughing at stuff that appeared 100+ years ago in The Strand, The Strand was chuckling at fashions from 100+ years ago: "Our grandmother's fashion plates."

Bookmarking this article to read for later.

Oh, shit. Who wants to try this variation of a loop-the-loop? Yes, that's a person bound sideways in a circular loop.

To celebrate the construction of a new drain pipe in Waterloo, Iowa, in 1903 to prevent the city from flooding, they held a banquet... in the drain pipe.

An anti-collision train design. each train is essentially its own mini bridge, which can pass over another.

Apparently only women of ill-repute used this back in the day.

I have questions.

Some nightmare fuel.

This is interesting, and again one of those unexpected consequences of modernization: street lights affecting fall leaves.

More nightmare fuel: aristocratic scarecrows.

American healthcare: always sucked.

"Detectives receiving a lecture on the method of identification by noses."

Hypnosis shenanigans.

Have I said that Edwardian era people needed better hobbies?

Okay, maybe they had some better hobbies. Who wants to learn to play an Edwardian era naval wargame with me?

This is sincerely fascinating.

A what now

Okay, it's basically a name for a daycare for working women.

More nightmare fuel, in the form of Japanese mini-figures.

We've always been kinda awful to sharks.

Well, I was going to take a nap, but instead that was me going through another entire issue of The Strand. Not quite as exciting as the last one, so let's see on another day what the next issue I download brings...