Description: Polybius is a famous 1980s urban legend about a mysterious, highly addictive arcade game that supposedly caused amnesia, seizures, and hallucinations. The Urban Legend claimed that the game allegedly appeared in Portland, Oregon, in 1981. Soon after, players reported night terrors, memory loss, and severe sickness. There were rumours that government agents had monitored the cabinets for subliminal mind control testing before the games vanished completely.
Polybius T-Shirt
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Description: Polybius is a famous 1980s arcade urban legend. The myth describes a mysterious arcade game that appeared in Portland, Oregon, in 1981. According to lore, the game featured addictive, psychedelic gameplay that caused players to suffer from amnesia and night terrors. Rumours claimed that the machines were monitored by the government as part of a mind-control experiment before vanishing without a trace.
Polybius T-Shirt
$24
Description: Lusitania - The RMS Lusitania was a famous British ocean liner launched by the Cunard Line in 1906. It was sunk on the 7th May 1915, by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland. The tragedy caused massive international outrage and helped turn American public opinion against Germany during World War 1.
Description: Lusitania - RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner launched by the Cunard Line in 1906 as a Royal Mail Ship. She was the world's largest passenger ship until the completion of her sister Mauretania three months later. In 1907, she gained the Blue Riband appellation for the fastest Atlantic crossing, which had been held by German ships for a decade. During World War I, Lusitania was hit by a torpedo on the 7th of May 1915.
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Description: Wind in the Willows is a children's book by the British novelist Kenneth Grahame. It focuses on four anthropomorphised animals: Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger. They live in a pastoral version of Edwardian England. “Believe me my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” So says Ratty to Mole.
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Description: Mount Everest - The 1953 British Mount Everest expedition was the ninth mountaineering expedition to attempt the first ascent of Mount Everest, and the first confirmed to have succeeded when Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary reached the summit on the 29th of May 1953. Led by Colonel John Hunt, it was organised and financed by the Joint Himalayan Committee. News of the expedition's success reached London in time to be released on the morning of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation.
