Animals
Dis-Gorilla
Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 26, 2024 -
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Category: Animals, Fads, Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Music, 1970s
PETA’s Complete List of Animal-Friendly Idioms
See all of them here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 22, 2024 -
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Category: Animals, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Languages, Euphemisms, Cant, Weasel Words, Prissy Phrases and Orwellian Language
Rats as music critics
According to German researcher Otto Nieschulz, when rats listen to music they prefer to listen to French chansons.But when Nieschulz says 'chansons' does he mean "secular polyphonic French songs of late medieval and Renaissance music" or the "style of French pop music which emerged in the 1950s and 1960s"? According to wikipedia, both are known as chansons.
I haven't been able to track down Nieschulz's original paper, so there's no way to know. I'm guessing the rats might enjoy both.
Indianapolis Star - May 16, 1966
Victoria Times Colonist - Apr 29, 1966
Posted By: Alex - Sat Aug 31, 2024 -
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Category: Animals, Music, Experiments
Beaversprite
Dorothy Richards established a sanctuary for beavers in Little Falls, NY. Not so weird. Except that she also had several beavers at a time living in her home.Read her life story at the Internet Archive.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 12, 2024 -
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Category: Animals, Eccentrics, North America, Twentieth Century
100 Photos That Aren’t Horse Photos
The title of Claude Closky's 1995 book, 100 Photos Qui Ne Sont Pas De Photos De Chevaux (100 Photos That Aren't Horse Photos), is totally accurate. His book consists of 100 photos of chickens.You can view all the photos on his website.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Aug 04, 2024 -
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Category: Animals, Photography and Photographers, Books
The Role of Wine in the Great 1906 California Quake
Everyone knows the drama of the Great 1906 Quake that devastated San Francisco.. But since California is famous for its wine production, it was only natural that wine played a part. Here are two such incidents out of who knows how many.
And in nearby Santa Rosa.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 27, 2024 -
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Category: Animals, Destruction, Regionalism, 1900s, North America, Alcohol
Le Baquet de Mesmer
The famous creator's Wikipedia page. That's him in the role of magician.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 22, 2024 -
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Category: Animals, Magic and Illusions and Sleight of Hand, Movies, 1900s, Women, Dance
Lobster Leash
Lobster Life Systems of Lodi, New Jersey was just granted a patent (No. 11,997,992) for a "lobster tether and method of tethering a lobster."This should be useful if, like the French poet Gérard de Nerval, you enjoy taking your pet lobster for walks. Nerval tethered his lobster with a leash made of silk ribbon.
Nerval walking his lobster
via Jeff Steck
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jun 06, 2024 -
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Category: Animals, Patents
Voluntary Alcohol Consumption in Chimpanzees and Orangutans
A study published in the June 1968 issue of the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol involved giving chimpanzees and orangutans as much vodka (mixed with fruit juice) as they wanted to drink in order to find out if they'd become alcoholics.Reportedly the chimpanzees were enthusiastic drinkers and became drunk repeatedly. But oddly, the orangutans, although they drank, never showed any signs of intoxication.
I'm curious to know more details about the study, but unfortunately the article itself is locked behind a paywall.
Central New Jersey Home News - Aug 22, 1968
Posted By: Alex - Wed Jun 05, 2024 -
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Category: Animals, Inebriation and Intoxicants, Experiments, 1960s
Mrs. Wilmer Steele’s broiler house
In 1974, Mrs. Wilmer Steele's broiler house was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It has the distinction of being the only chicken coop included in the Register.
Mrs. Wilmer Steele's broiler house, located at the University of Delaware Substation near Georgetown, Delaware
The documentation shows that the folks responsible for maintaining the Register were reluctant to add a chicken coop. They initially rejected the application. But finally they were won over, convinced by the argument that it was in Mrs. Wilmer Steele's chicken coop that the modern broiler industry (i.e. breeding chickens for meat rather than for eggs) began.
More info from Wikipedia:
"Ike Long, a broiler caretaker, two of the Steele children and Mrs. Wilmer Steele in front of a series of colony houses during the pioneering days of the commercial broiler industry."
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jun 03, 2024 -
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Category: Animals, Farming, Landmarks
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