November 2018
November 6, 2018
How to Take Apart a Volkswagen Beetle
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 06, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Twentieth Century, Cars
November 5, 2018
Nutrimato
According to wikipedia:Nutrimato would have been a good name for a robot. Not so much for a juice drink.
Green Bay Press Gazette - Nov 8, 1972
Posted By: Alex - Mon Nov 05, 2018 -
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Category: Soda, Pop, Soft Drinks and other Non-Alcoholic Beverages, Vegetables, 1970s
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 17
Sjöguden (The sea god) by Carl Milles.
Wikipedia page for the artist.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 05, 2018 -
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Category: Art, 1930s, Europe, Russia
November 4, 2018
The Ground Breathes
What on earth is going on here?The explanation, via IFLScience:
“During a rain and windstorm event the ground becomes saturated, 'loosening' the soil's cohesion with the roots as the wind is blowing on a tree's crown," certified arborist Mark Vanderwouw told The Weather Network.
"The wind is trying to 'push' the trees over, and as the force is transferred to the roots, the ground begins to 'heave'. If the winds were strong enough and lasted long enough more roots would start to break and eventually some of the trees would topple.”
Posted By: Alex - Sun Nov 04, 2018 -
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Category: Nature, Natural Wonders, Weather
The Wonderful World of Chemistry
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 04, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Industry, Factories and Manufacturing, Products, Technology, 1960s
November 3, 2018
Strange Beauty Queens
This blog has a fine post with many fotos on our theme of oddball beauty contests.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 03, 2018 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Twentieth Century
Hair Painting
Artist Jarrett Key paints with his hair. When I first saw the story about him in the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, I thought that must mean he had cut some of his hair off and made a brush out of it. But no. He uses his hair as a brush while it's still attached to his head.Key says his inspiration came from his dead grandmother who appeared to him in a dream and said, "Your hair is your strength. Paint with your hair."
Key probably doesn't realize this, but he was actually anticipated in this technique by comedian Pat Paulsen who, back in 1966, before he became famous on the The Smothers Brothers' show, made headlines by claiming to be an artist who used his head as a paintbrush. Paulsen called it 'Cranial Painting.'
Arizona Republic - Mar 6, 1966
Posted By: Alex - Sat Nov 03, 2018 -
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Category: Art, Hair and Hairstyling
Follies of the Madmen #393
Our soft drink is equivalent to a life-endangering catastrophic event.
Source of B&W ad here (scroll right).
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 03, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Disasters, Soda, Pop, Soft Drinks and other Non-Alcoholic Beverages, 1960s, Weather
November 2, 2018
Name That List, #50
What is this a list of? The answer is below in extended.- The rare mineral cuprorivaite
- Weathered copper-carbonate azurite
- Blood from the wounds of dragons locked in mortal combat with elephants
- Resin secreted from trees growing on the islands of Socotra and Sumatra
- Murex shell from the Eastern Mediterranean
- The rendered bodies of Egyptian mummies
- Scale insects that swarm on prickly-pear cacti
- Unripe buckthorn berries
- The urine of cattle who have eaten mango leaves
More in extended >>
Posted By: Alex - Fri Nov 02, 2018 -
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Category: Name That List
Abolish Women’s Fashions
The novelist W. L. George, deemed a feminist, wanted to abolish fashion and prescribe a universal uniform for all women, to save effort and money.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 02, 2018 -
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Category: Fashion, Literature, 1920s, Women
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