Europe
JFK as Angel
Source of text.
Regretably, the only image I could find has this watermark hiding some of the details.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 09, 2017 -
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Category: Religion, Statues and Monuments, 1930s, 1960s, Europe
Egg Massage
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 29, 2017 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Eggs, 1960s, Europe
Yanks in the UK
This makes Brexit all the more mandatory!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jul 27, 2017 -
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Category: Antisocial Activities, Culture and Civilization, Family, Sexuality, Foreign Customs, 1950s, Europe, North America
Doddy and the Diddymen
Apparently, the UK had their own version of Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Creator's Wikipedia page.
Live version of the act here, not embeddable.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 14, 2017 -
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Category: Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Music, 1960s, Europe
Nuclear Bikini Contest
Want a job at a nuke plant? Hope you look good in a bikini.
Full story here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 03, 2017 -
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Category: Body, Sexuality, Europe, Power Generation
My Italian Fun
Despite my posts appearing daily for two weeks, I have really been away from the internet and in Italy. I am now catching up on all the glorious comments from WU-vies and the posts of Alex and Chuck (*sniffle*). If you would like, for some bizarre reason, to learn what I did in Rome and Pisa and elsewhere, I have written up a trip report.Here is a picture of some elderly Italian ruins, one organic.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 01, 2017 -
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Category: Paul, Europe
The Empire of the Sahara
In June 1903 a French sugar millionaire, one Jacques Lebaudy, a dapper little man with a sharp nose and a shrill high-pitched voice who was said to have a personal fortune of some pounds 3m, recruited a dozen Breton sailors and landed them on the coast of Spanish Morocco, commanding them to go forth and establish an empire. Lebaudy then informed the French authorities that he was henceforth to be addressed as Jacques I, Najin-al-Den, Emperor of the Sahara, Commander of the Faithful, King of Tarfaia, Duke of Arleuf and Prince of Chal-Huin.
Full account here, including his inglorious death.
Wikipedia entry here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri May 12, 2017 -
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Category: Bombast, Bloviation and Pretentiousness, Dictators, Tyrants and Other Harsh Rulers, Eccentrics, 1900s, Africa, Europe
The Whittlesea Straw Bear
Official site here.
Wikipedia page here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jan 11, 2017 -
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Category: Foreign Customs, Europe, Fictional Monsters
Wonderful Ching-Ching
Additional images and full PDF download here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 09, 2017 -
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Category: Stereotypes and Cliches, Books, Asia, Europe, Nineteenth Century
Miss Europe
Here is why the European Union is falling apart! They seem to have abandoned the Miss Europe contest in 2006.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 03, 2017 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Europe
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