Twentieth Century
VD Is For Everybody PSA
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 07, 2025 -
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Category: PSA’s, Twentieth Century, Diseases, Sex
The Order of Christian Mystics
Wikipedia entry here.The Order of Christian Mystics was a 20th-century spiritual order that was promulgated to give to the Western world advanced Christian mysticism based on the Western mystery school tradition.[1][2]
The order was founded in Philadelphia in 1908 by Harriette Augusta and Frank Homer Curtiss. Its original name was The Order of the Fifteen, but it was later changed to The Order of Christian Mystics. Their intent was to combine Theosophy with traditional Christian doctrine. Their teachings were transmitted through Harriette by the Founder of the Theosophical Society, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, otherwise simply referred to as The Teacher of the Order.
The teachings of the order were promulgated mainly through a system of correspondence, extensive publishing of books and delivering of lectures at many centres. Their pupils numbered many thousands in over 70 countries. Mainly their works were aimed at the American esoteric fraternity, for it was believed that America would remain the spiritually dominant nation regarding Western mysticism for many years to come.
The spiritual philosophy as espoused by this Order was based on a system of personal regeneration, otherwise called spiritual alchemy, by transmuting the base creative energy, through Divine purity, prayer, devotion, study and meditation. This was put forth in the Western mystical tradition, a system of mysticism suitable for the Western culture and mindset, encompassing a new interpretation on all former teachings given under the names of Rosicrucianism, Gnosticism and the Western mystery school teachings.
I am fond of their advice book to youngsters. No mere admonitions about washing behind your ears!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 02, 2025 -
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Category: New Age, Religion, Supernatural, Occult, Paranormal, Books, Twentieth Century
The Literary Lesbian Society
Here's an example of the changing meaning of words. As the text below explains (from Frank Gluth's history of Oak Harbor), in 1903, one could still use "lesbian" in a non-sexual way. But the latest reference I can find to the club is from 1964, an era when other meanings of the word became dominant.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 16, 2024 -
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Category: Clubs, Fraternities and Other Self-selecting Organizations, Education, Regionalism, Sexuality, Twentieth Century
Lorraine O’Grady, RIP
Her Wikipedia page.
In the early 1980s, O'Grady created the persona of Mlle Bourgeoise Noire, who invaded art openings wearing a gown and a cape made of 180 pairs of white gloves,[10] first giving away flowers, then beating herself with a white studded whip, which she often referred to as, "the whip-that-made-the-plantations-move".[10] Whilst doing this she would often shout in protest poems that railed against a segregated art world that excluded black individuals from the world of mainstream art, and which she perceived as not looking beyond a small circle of friends. Her first performance as Mlle Bourgeoise Noire was in 1980 at the Linda Goode Bryant's Just Above Midtown gallery in Tribeca.[11]
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 14, 2024 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Performance Art, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, Twentieth Century, Twenty-first Century
Miss Pharmacy
Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 08, 2024 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Drugs, Twentieth Century
The Guitar Sounds of Robert Gretch
More such cuts at the link.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 03, 2024 -
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Category: Music, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, Twentieth Century
Follies of the Madmen #611
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 14, 2024 -
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Category: Health, Advertising, Space Travel, Twentieth Century
Chicken Charlie
He can be seen starting about the 45-second mark in this short video.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 13, 2024 -
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Category: Eccentrics, North America, Twentieth Century
Follies of the Madmen #610
"The Big Stain" would make a great title for a noir film.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 07, 2024 -
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Category: Domestic, Hygiene, Neighbors, Co-tenants, Residents of a District, Advertising, Twentieth Century
Follies of the Madmen #608
Man, this ad is all over the place!
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 22, 2024 -
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Category: Scatterbrained, Unfocused and Ditzy, Advertising, Junk Food, Twentieth Century
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