Goran Blazeski
Goran Blazeski is one of the authors writing for The Vintage News
Articles by Goran Blazeski:
Polari: The secret gay language that was used when homosexuality was considered a crime
‘If you get in that car you will be found dead in it by this time next week’; Sir Alec Guinness predicted the death of James Dean
The first escalator: Traumatized customers given cognac in order to revive them after their ‘ordeal’
Meanwhile: The Sarpa Salpa is a hallucinogenic fish that was used as a recreational drug in the Roman Empire
Until 1664, New York was called New Amsterdam because of the arrival of Dutch settlers
To raise funds Bedlam Asylum allowed, for a penny, public could stare at caged patients
Anyway – the bizarre sport of wife carrying where the winner takes home his wife’s weight in beer
A Roman Charioteer; if he had lived today he would have been worth $15 billion-the highest paid athlete ever
Inspired by Star Trek: Martin Cooper invented the mobile phone in 1973
Patients that needed bloodletting were sent to the barbershops – hence the red & white pole outside of them
