Martin Chalakoski
Martin Chalakoski is one of the authors writing for The Vintage News
Articles by Martin Chalakoski:
During WWII, the British Government bought the world’s entire supply of tea
Forbidden entry: The world’s remotest, most secret, and most fragile places
Disney softened the story of Pinocchio, originally that of an ungrateful and “wretched boy,” hanged for his mistakes
Chaplin’s The Great Dictator might be the most popular, but it was The Three Stooges who first openly mocked Hitler on film
“Say kids, what time is it”: For 13 years “It’s Howdy Doody Time” Won Hearts
“Evacuate the children, put up the blackout curtains, kill the cat”: The mass pet killings of 1939
Louis Cartier created the wristwatch so that aviator Santos-Dumont could check his performance while flying over Paris
The sandwich was named after an 18th century earl who didn’t want to take a break from gambling to eat
Sir Anthony Hopkins won the Oscar for role of psychopath Hannibal Lecter with only 16 minutes of screen time and an unblinking stare
Henri Coandă: The aerodynamics pioneer who flew an early version of a jet plane in 1910
