October, 2007:

I found this cool and very informative magazine website, oldmagazinearticles.com.

OldMagazineArticles.com is a private undertaking and the effort of one old magazine enthusiast in particular who believes deeply that today’s readers of history can learn a good deal from the old periodicals. It is a primary source website and is designed to serve as a reference for students, educators, authors, researchers, dabblers, dilettantes, hacks and the merely curious. The old articles, essays, poetry, cartoons and photographs that can be found on the site have all been collected from a number of different libraries, bookshops and yard sales throughout the United States and Europe. The topics selected reflect the whims of the editor as well as the growing interests of the internet community. To the best of their understanding, all the content is in the public domain and the site viewers need never ask our permission should you wish to use any of the articles for publication; they do ask as a courtesy, however, that site users provide this simple credit:

“This article was provided by OldMagazineArticles.com”

All the primary source content that appears on the site is a digital facsimile of the original, presented in PDF format in order that the users will be able to save the files or email them to friends. However, not all content appears exactly as it did so many years ago; the majority of items have been scanned and rearranged so as to make a faster loading file. Decorations and advertisements have been removed and page numbers included whenever possible. (from the site’s About Us section)

The website offers articles from American Civil War history to art & literature, cartoons from 1914-1922, early cars & automotive history, silent movies from cartoons to Charlie Chaplin, World War One and Two, women’s fashion, society and manners, and many others. Indeed they can be very helpful to students and other individuals!

There I found weird invention articles very amusing! Here they are:

I was skimming through the previous posts in Wikimusicguide blog when I spotted World music articles like Bossanova in Brazil and Reggae in the Carribean. In the reggae article, there I wrote: During my flights of imagination, I get to daydream a Carribean spree. From its rich art and culture, to its famous resort spots due to its mild tropical climate, the Carribean is a renowned place of beauty. Of course, not to mention is its wonderful music. When it comes to Worldbeat, the genre of world popular music, Carribean has one of the most influential kinds.

Yes, the Carribean is really one of my desired travel destinations, besides Brazil, Scandinavia and some others (on second thought, plenty others). The tropical beauty of the islands in the Carribean like the Bahamas and countries in it like the Latin Americas are just endearing. Carribean also include US Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands, so there are so many places to see and explore! And guess what, there’s a travel magazine that especially covers everything about traveling the Carribean. I got pretty excited when I found it out in the magazine directory. Carribean Travel and Life Magazine has it, all the info you need to know if you want to get there!

When it comes to culture, one of the places that I am most fascinated with is the rich culture of the Carribean. They’ve got everything—the sceneries, travel spots and destinations, the food, the people, and the music (love it!). Just looking at pictures of the natural spots of the islands is already appealing, what more being in the actual place! The magazine indeed would be a great help for people aiming to have a vacation or trip to the place. At least if I’m far from actually traveling there at the moment, there’s a magazine that can take me there!