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Restoring Vintage Baseball Magazine Covers, How The Coke Bottle Got Into Shape, Truck Nutz, And Other News, What It's Like To Be A Human Cannonball, The Ambassador Who Worked From A Nairobi Bathroom To Avoid State Department IT, A Rare Look Into The Imprecise World Of Art Identification The Daily Digg Monday, March 9, 2015 DUG OUT OF THE PAST Restoring Vintage Baseball Magazine Covers uni-watch.com I've always been a fan of the covers of Baseball Magazine, which ran from 1908-1957. Their earliest covers featured the illustration artwork of Gerrit Beneker and J.F. Kernan, two recognized legends in the field. I noticed that undamaged covers were nearly impossible to find, so I decided to try and restore some of my favorite examples from 100+ years ago. SODA STREAM-LINED How The Coke Bottle Got Into Shape thedailybeast.com Sleek, ridged and much imitated in the drink's beginning, the Coke bottle became a patented classic in 1915. What makes it so distinctive, and loved? WHAT YOU MISSED THIS WEEKEND Truck Nutz, And Other News digg.com A Senator that has never used email, a history of brunch, and the man behind Truck Nutz. SO THEY DON'T SHOUT 'CANNONBALL' THEN What It's Like To Be A Human Cannonball digg.com Watch from the perspective of Gemma Kirby, the youngest female human cannonball in the world, as she gets shot into the sky during a Ringling Bros. Circus XTREME performance. THE OLD POOP AND SEND The Ambassador Who Worked From A Nairobi Bathroom To Avoid State Department IT arstechnica.com If you think Clinton's e-mail scandal is bad, you haven't heard about Scott Gration. IT'S ALL IN HOW IT'S FRAMED A Rare Look Into The Imprecise World Of Art Identification nytimes.com At a time when the attribution of paintings can be so litigious, a startling reassessment provides a rare window into the often imprecise, and debate-riddled, field of identifying the authorship of artworks. Get more stories on Digg.com → SKI'S A CROWD In this aerial view taken from a helicopter thousands of sportsmen and women await the start, in Maloja, of the annual Engadin skiing marathon on Sunday, March 8, 2015, from Maloja to S-Chanf in south Eastern Switzerland. Credit: AP Photo/Keystone,Gian Ehrenzeller Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014