Twentieth Century
Rejuvenique Facial Toning Mask
Still being made and sold! Get yours via the Amazon link below!
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 04, 2022 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Body Modifications, Inventions, Technology, Twentieth Century, Twenty-first Century
Calcreose
No longer will tuberculosis sufferers have to lick telephone poles for the creosote and hang out at lime quarries inhaling the dust, for now Calcreose supplies all of those vital ingredients which you can stomach. Apparently good for a hundred ailments.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 03, 2022 -
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Category: Patent Medicines, Nostrums and Snake Oil, Twentieth Century
The Living Christmas Tree
Alex and I will be making an announcement soon, about where all WU-vies can meet up to form such a seasonal tribute. Bring your own robe.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 15, 2021 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Holidays, Christmas, Human Marvels, Twentieth Century
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 40
Raymond Duchamp-Villon.
His Wikipedia page.
Sculpture page.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 08, 2021 -
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Category: Animals, Avant Garde, Statues and Monuments, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
A History of Mechanical Horses
Read the piece here.
There should be a separate article on mechanical horses in literature. My favorite one occurs in these two novels by Roger Zelazny.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 30, 2021 -
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Category: Animals, Inventions, Literature, Fantasy, AI, Robots and Other Automatons, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Drive-In Movie Ads
With over 100 items like this one below, you can easily waste hours at the Internet Archives page called Drive-In Movie Ads.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 21, 2021 -
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Category: Movies, PSA’s, Advertising, Twentieth Century, Cars
Reta Ray, “The Sniffing Song”
Read about the artist here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 18, 2021 -
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Category: Drugs, Humor, Music, Twentieth Century
C. W. Leadbeater, Theosophist
Anyone with even a passing interest in the weird has heard of that famous eccentric Madame Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society.But less attention is paid to her interesting comrade, C. W. Leadbeater.
Read his pretty short book THE LIFE AFTER DEATH here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 17, 2021 -
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Category: Death, Eccentrics, Supernatural, Occult, Paranormal, Books, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Follies of the Madmen #519
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 11, 2021 -
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Category: Sexuality, Advertising, Twentieth Century, Double Entendres and Nudge-Nudge, Wink-Wink
Mystery Gadget 97
This device does what now?Answer is here.
Or after the jump.
More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 02, 2021 -
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Category: Technology, Twentieth Century
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