Europe
Sea Mail
Posted By: Paul - Sun Aug 30, 2020 -
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Category: Communications, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, Regionalism, Europe
Tuffi the Elephant Who Leaped from a Monorail
The incident produced this "manipulated" postcard.
The Wikipedia page.
The anniversary celebration of 2018.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 21, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Publicity Stunts, 1950s, Europe
Follies of the Madmen #462
Swiss watch inexplicably personified as a sleeping Mexican.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 20, 2020 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, Stereotypes and Cliches, Foreign Customs, Europe, North America
Max Und Moritz
Cartoon violence? God forbid!The Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 01, 2019 -
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Category: Animals, Antisocial Activities, Death, Destruction, Domestic, Cartoons, Stop-motion Animation, 1940s, Europe, Nineteenth Century
The Prix Guzman
Wikipedia explains:The Prix Pierre Guzman (Pierre Guzman Prize) was the name given to two prizes, one astronomical and one medical. Both were established by the will of Anne Emilie Clara Goguet (died June 30, 1891), wife of Marc Guzman, and named after her son Pierre Guzman. This prize was a sum of 100,000 francs, to be given to a person who succeeded in communicating with a celestial body, other than Mars, and receiving a response.
Did the Apollo 11 astronauts really "communicate" with another world to qualify for the prize?
Source of article.
Posted By: Paul - Fri May 31, 2019 -
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Category: Aliens, Certificates, Diplomas, and Other Testaments of Achievement, Communications, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, 1960s, Europe, Nineteenth Century
The Crazy Otto Medley
Number 2 on the Billboard Charts in 1955.
The man's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Fri May 03, 2019 -
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Category: Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Music, 1950s, Europe
Happy St. Patrick’s Day 2019
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 17, 2019 -
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Category: Government, Foreign Customs, 1960s, Europe, Fictional Monsters
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 19
Not sure how I'd feel about this sculpture if I were a British woman.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 05, 2019 -
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Category: Art, 1940s, 1950s, Europe, Russia
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot
I believe we've seen the birds-and-guitars piece before, but not the others.His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 26, 2018 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Museums, Music, Europe, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Karina Smigla-Bobinski
The artist's homepage.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 22, 2018 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Europe
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