Twentieth Century
Sol Bright
His Wikipedia page.His full name: Solomon Kamaluhiakekipikealiʻikaʻapunikukealaokamahanahana Bright Sr.
Posted By: Paul - Wed May 11, 2022 -
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Category: Music, Wild West and US Frontier, South Pacific, Twentieth Century
The Torre Galatea Museum
Created by---who else?--Salvador Dali.A nice write-up with more pix at this link.
Posted By: Paul - Mon May 09, 2022 -
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Category: Art, Surrealism, Museums, Europe, Twentieth Century
Las Floristas Headdress Ball
It seems that this charity group does not do the annual Headdress Ball any longer. But we can still marvel at the past.See more photos here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu May 05, 2022 -
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Category: Charities and Philanthropy, Fashion, Headgear, Twentieth Century, Twenty-first Century
Coral Castle, Florida
Their homepage.Their Wikipedia entry.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 30, 2022 -
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Category: Architecture, Eccentrics, Regionalism, Statues, Monuments and Memorials, North America, Twentieth Century
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 43
Somehow, this series of posts has become shockingly relevant!
His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 28, 2022 -
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Category: Art, Russia, Twentieth Century
The Palace of the Soviets
Take what metaphors and allegories you will from this famous failure.
The Wikipedia page tells us:
The Palace of the Soviets (Russian: Дворец Советов, Dvorets Sovetov) was a project to construct a political convention center in Moscow on the site of the demolished Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. The main function of the palace was to house sessions of the Supreme Soviet in its 130-metre (430 ft) wide and 100-metre (330 ft) tall grand hall seating over 20,000 people. If built, the 416-metre (1,365 ft) tall palace would have become the world's tallest structure, with an internal volume surpassing the combined volumes of the six tallest American skyscrapers.[10]
The music on this video is annoying--hit MUTE--but otherwise it's well done.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Apr 15, 2022 -
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Category: Architecture, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Government, Success & Failure, Russia, Twentieth Century
The Grape Day Queen of Escondido
The official page.Grape Day started in 1908 as a way to celebrate Escondido's grape harvest and promote the city. It flourished until 1950 and was revived by the Escondido History Center in 1996. Each year in October*, our community comes together to celebrate Grape Day.
An article from 2006.
The 1949 candidates, courtesy of the Weekly Times-Advocate (Escondido, California)19 Aug 1949, Fri Page 6
The 1913 winner.
Source: Times-Advocate (Escondido, California)18 Feb 1973, Sun Page 8
Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 09, 2022 -
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Category: Agriculture, Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Regionalism, Twentieth Century, Twenty-first Century
Pinboard Animation: “The Nose”
This cartoon is pretty great. But when you consider how it was made...
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 30, 2022 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Inventions, Cartoons, Twentieth Century
Angier’s Petroleum Emulsion
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 15, 2022 -
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Category: Patent Medicines, Nostrums and Snake Oil, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Nausea, Revulsion and Disgust
Unlikely Reasons for Murder No. 8
Source: NYT for 9/23/1899.
Source: NYT for 1/6/1900.
Source.
Source: Reading Times (Reading, Pennsylvania)01 May 1900, Tue Page 3
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 11, 2022 -
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Category: Crime, Death, Theater and Stage, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
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