Plue, the first Valentine’s Day wasn’t about love; and what about those UFOs?
|  | Monday, February 13, 2023 | | | | |
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| | On the voicemail, the man plays a violin, reads a lullaby, and then says: “Sleep, sleep my darling girl. It’s getting late.”
The message wasn’t on an iPhone. It was on a record. It also was from the 1940s. In many ways, the world’s first voicemails aren’t that different from those of today. (Above, a Soviet-era “happy birthday” greeting.)
But how was the message delivered? Did soldiers send these audiograms of love before a battle? Are these messages still around?
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Leave a message at the tone: At-home devices and public recording booths (like the Voice-o-Graph booth, above) were among the ways people recorded "voice mail." Read more. | | | |
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| How Valentine’s Day began: Well, it wasn’t always about love. Per se. Historians say the inspiration for tomorrow’s holiday may have been a festival celebrating fertility—or the execution of a martyr, Sydney Combs writes. (Pictured above, a heart-shaped hot air balloon soars over snow-covered land.) | | | |
| Not UFOs: On the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, huge radomes making up the Svalbard Satellite Station seem to hover in the mist. From a series of images documenting the unearthly beauty of the ground station, which supports orbiting satellites. Here's how to reach this land where polar bears outnumber people.
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY ANTONY GILBERT | | A 30-foot what? The rare sighting of a giant phantom jellyfish in chilly Antarctic waters came about because of tourists using private submersibles. Areas below 150 feet have rarely been explored in the Antarctic, but the submersibles can go down 1,000 feet. Here’s what we know about these giant deep-water invertebrates.
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Today's soundtrack: Inspiration Information, Shuggie Otis
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