Mental Health and Insanity
The Panama Ship Tunnel
You know, once you state the idea, it just all seems so obvious and practical.Read the article here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 11, 2024 -
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Category: Inventions, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, Caves, Caverns, Tunnels and Other Subterranean Venues, Mental Health and Insanity
Follies of the Madmen #609
Too much nicotine causes the user to hallucinate that the cigarette is talking to them.Source of ad.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 28, 2024 -
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Category: Advertising, Smoking and Tobacco, 1930s, Mental Health and Insanity
Follies of the Madmen #606
Insane adult co-opts kids in his cereal scheme.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 23, 2024 -
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Category: Advertising, Cereal, Cartoons, 1960s, Mental Health and Insanity
The Shrink
Poetry of the insane?Are you nuts? Are you nuts? Have you lost your guts?
Why do you think you are nuts?
Posted By: Alex - Fri Aug 16, 2024 -
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Category: Music, Television, Psychology, 1980s, Mental Health and Insanity
Anne Carroll Moore and her Doll Nicholas
The famous children's librarian Anne Carroll Moore was wont to tote around a doll named Nicholas and make people interact with it.
She eventually wrote a whole book (300+ pages) about Nicholas: Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story.
You can read the book here.
I have tried in vain to find a real photo of Nicholas. However, here is his depiction from the book.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 05, 2024 -
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Category: Books, Libraries, 1920s, Dolls and Stuffed Animals, Mental Health and Insanity
Deranged Robot
A 'mentally disturbed' robot at the World Fair in San Diego, 1935/36. A robot provides entertainment at the California Pacific Exposition in San Diego, [but] instead of giving the planned speech, it suddenly began to speak in a boisterous cabaret voice and afterwards emitted the sounds of an orchestra. After a little bewilderment the cause for this 'mental confusion' was discovered: due to a circuit error, the robot had transmitted the program of the exhibition's broadcast station. The photo shows the robot during a thorough inspection of its speech organs and its circuits.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Feb 02, 2024 -
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Category: Robots, Expositions, World Fairs, Celebrations, 1930s, Mental Health and Insanity
Teddie Rose Vail, Amnesia Due to Folk-Dancing
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 28, 2023 -
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Category: Children, Parents, 1950s, Dance, Mental Health and Insanity
Jean-Yves Blondeau, Rollerman
His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 22, 2023 -
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Category: Bicycles and Other Human-powered Vehicles, Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Europe, Mental Health and Insanity
Unlikely Reasons for Murder No. 17
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 22, 2023 -
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Category: Death, Family, Children, Supernatural, Occult, Paranormal, 1930s, Mental Health and Insanity
The Opal
Read it here. Spoiler: it's all very bland.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 30, 2023 -
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Category: Literature, Magazines, Nineteenth Century, Mental Health and Insanity
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