"There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind." - F. Dostoevsky
ATM machines, debuted in the late 1960s. But many of these early test versions of the "automated bank kiosk" involved human tellers on the other end, like this 1969 prototype.
However by the 70s the technology began to rapidly advance, shifting to the fully automated machines we still use today, thanks to improved computer capabilities and innovation.
The fall of Rome is widely misunderstood.
It wasn't invasion, disease or famine that truly brought it to its knees.
Rome collapsed because the birth rate did… (thread) 🧵
Jeffrey H. Smith, an Army veteran, writes in WaPo that when he was four months old, his father — an Army captain who was decorated for his service in Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge — wrote a letter home to Kansas from Germany on March 11, 1945.
Read the letter in full.
Американец Джефф Пермар стал замечать, что с его огорода пропадает урожай. В надежде поймать вора, он установил камеры на участке. Какого же было его удивление, когда он посмотрел записи - прямо в объектив смотрел пухленький сурок, поедающий овощи.