Automats were efficient vending machine-style restaurants that signaled to many Americans that the future in dining had arrived. So what happened to them?At the turn of the century, New Yorkers rushed to a new kind of dining establishment, one they felt represented all the sleekness and efficiency of a future in chrome: the Automat.
As a sort of ancestor of the vending machine, Automats were a wall of coin-operated cubbies that contained hot food and beverages behind a glass window. Read More...
Barbro Karlén believed she was different as a child but didn't know why until she read the diary of Anne Frank — and realized she had lived as Frank in a past life.YouTubeBarbro Karlén claims to remember details from Anne Frank’s childhood before the Holocaust.
Throughout history, many have questioned whether reincarnation can happen, either from generation to generation or across time. And Swedish writer Barbro Karlén is one of many who believes it exists. Read More...
Just two days after Juan Gerardi produced a massive report detailing his country's wartime atrocities, three members of the military killed him in his home. That's the official story, at least.HRD MemorialGuatemalan bishop and indigenous rights advocate Juan Gerardi fought to give a voice to the indigenous Mayan peoples targeted by Guatemala’s military dictatorship during the country’s 36-year-long civil war.
On April 26, 1998, Bishop Juan Gerardi was bludgeoned to death with a concrete slab inside his home in Guatemala City so savagely that he could only be identified by the ring he wore to signify his position. Read More...
