Europe
The Heidelberg Tun
Full story here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jun 22, 2016 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Europe, Eighteenth Century, Alcohol
Tom Leppard, RIP
Obituary here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 16, 2016 -
Comments (2)
Category: Body Modifications, Eccentrics, Europe
Three Thousand Deer Trophies
[Click to enlarge]
Original pic here.
Wikipedia entry here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri May 27, 2016 -
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Category: Animals, Hunting, Trapping and Other Wilderness Activities, Royalty, 1930s, Europe
Robot Ballet
The Italian Futurists had a thing for robot costumes in their dance performances. They left behind some weird imagery.
Read about them here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue May 17, 2016 -
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Category: Costumes and Masks, Futurism, Robots, Avant Garde, Dance, Europe, Twentieth Century
The World Coal-Carrying Championship
Home page here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed May 04, 2016 -
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Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Regionalism, Europe
Trigger Happy TV
More episodes on YouTube.
Wikipedia entry here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 09, 2016 -
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Category: Television, 2000s, Pranks, Europe
Hitler Is Alive!
In its heyday, THE POLICE GAZETTE was a goldmine of weird news. It was recently revived by Steven Westlake, son of the famous crime novelist Donald Westlake, and he has now compiled a book of the best Hitler articles from the magazine. Looks like a winner!
Posted By: Paul - Mon Feb 22, 2016 -
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Category: Dictators, Tyrants and Other Harsh Rulers, Hoaxes and Imposters and Imitators, Magazines, Europe, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Action Man
For what started as a GI Joe ripoff, this toy seems to have evolved its own complex mythology. Not sure about propriety of "Bulletman," since that was and is a DC Comics character.
Full story here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 16, 2016 -
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Category: Toys, 1960s, Europe
Opel Rocket Vehicles
Original pic here.
Opel-RAK were a series of rocket vehicles produced by Fritz von Opel, of the Opel car company, in association with others, including Max Valier and Friedrich Wilhelm Sander largely as publicity stunts.
The Lippisch Ente a rocket-powered glider was produced on June 11, 1928, piloted by Fritz Stamer, but is not usually considered part of the series.
Opel RAK.1 - a rocket car that achieved 75 km/h (47 mph) on March 15, 1928[2]
Opel RAK.2 - rocket car May 23, 1928 reached a speed of 230 km/h (143 mph) driven by 24 solid-fuel rockets[2]
Opel RAK.3 rocket train (quoted speed is variously 254 or 290 km/h. See: [3], [4], [5], [6], [7]) On the second run the train jumps the track and is destroyed.
Opel Rak IV rocket train, destroyed when a solid rocket explodes on the track, exploding all the other rockets. Railway authorities prohibit further runs.[3]
Opel RAK.1 rocket glider September 30, 1929
Some stock footage of some of the rocket vehicles was incorporated into this early SF film.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 25, 2016 -
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Category: Flight, Movies, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, Technology, Science Fiction, 1920s, Europe, Cars
3 + 1
3+1 from Soline FAUCONNIER on Vimeo.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 07, 2015 -
Comments (1)
Category: Anthropomorphism, Domestic, Appliances, Stop-motion Animation, Europe
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