Domagoj Valjak
Domagoj Valjak is one of the authors writing for The Vintage News
Articles by Domagoj Valjak:
In 1966, a former U.S. sharpshooter killed fourteen people and injured thirty-one at The University of Texas at Austin
Edward Albee named his famous play “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” after seeing that written on the mirror of a bar toilet
“The Turk” was a fake chess-playing automaton that defeated Benjamin Franklin and Napoleon Bonaparte
“Hanging coffins” are remnants of an extinct funeral ritual from Eastern Asia
Art critics initially assumed that Grant Wood’s famous painting “American Gothic” was a satire of rural small-town life
The firebombing of Tokyo was the single deadliest air raid in history
“Pumpkin bombs” were non-nuclear test bombs with the same ballistic and handling characteristics as the “Fat Man”, the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
J.R.R. Tolkien fought in the First World War and created a secret code to communicate with his wife
Voyager 1 was the first human-made object to reach interstellar space
The anti-war symbolism of Bertolt Brecht’s play “Mother Courage and Her Children” was initially misunderstood
