Twentieth Century
Behind the Burly Q
Trailer is Safe For Work. Link to book or DVD below.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 27, 2018 -
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Category: Costumes and Masks, Entertainment, Public Indecency, Sex Symbols, Books, Documentaries, Twentieth Century
Alice in Dairyland
I can see having a beauty queen to represent the dairy region. But what's the Lewis Carroll connection? The website is not forthcoming. Does she have surreal adventures or not?
Source.
Home page.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 18, 2018 -
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Category: Agriculture, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Food, Regionalism, Twentieth Century
The Wiere Brothers
Their Wikipedia page.
And in 1962, reduced to playing the state fair circuit.
Newspaper source.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 15, 2018 -
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Category: Comedians, Twentieth Century
Virginia Slims Clothing
Dress in the tribal garments of your tobacco goddess.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 20, 2018 -
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Category: Fashion, Tobacco and Smoking, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Women, Twentieth Century
Propellor-Driven Snowmobiles
This notion goes way back.The Russians tried them at the start of the 20th century, with the Aerosani.
Here's one from the 1930s.
And finally, one from 2016.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 08, 2018 -
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Category: Motor Vehicles, Nature, Weather, Twentieth Century, Twenty-first Century
Alois Swoboda
His Wikipedia page tells us:
His course did not use apparatus or exercise equipment. Claims in Swoboda's courses included the ability to regrow lost limbs and heal a heart damaged by a heart attack.
Article in POPULAR MECHANICS to be found here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jul 03, 2018 -
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Category: Body, Bodybuilding, Diseases, Cult Figures and Artifacts, Exercise and Fitness, Frauds, Cons and Scams, Twentieth Century
Mystery Illustration 73
What was this pleasant little old lady famous for?
The answer is here.
And after the jump.
More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 26, 2018 -
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Category: Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Black Knight, Freeman of London
Dominating the staircase is a big painting of Lady Violet Munnings riding a grey hunter, superbly assured against a finely painted sky and moorland setting. Lady Violet’s Pekingese, Black Knight, who was made a Freeman of the City of London (such are the benefits of dining with the influential), wrote a memoir that he called Diary of a Freeman. Actually I think he dictated it to Lady Violet, who was his devoted slave in all things. After he died she had him stuffed, and continued to carry him to the village on errands. He now reposes on a favourite cushion in a glass case beneath Munnings’s portrait of him, in a cubby hole off the main staircase. He remains extremely popular with regular visitors.
The artist.
Here is Black Knight's account of his life.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 24, 2018 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Art, Books, Dogs, Twentieth Century
Anna Halprin
"Since the late 1930s Anna Halprin has been creating revolutionary directions for dance..." The actual "dance" starts at 1:11.
Perhaps, after viewing that, you would like to watch a feature-length documentary on Halprin. It'll cost you $3.99 however, although the trailer is free.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 12, 2018 -
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Category: Avant Garde, Dance, Twentieth Century
Tinguely’s Metamatics
His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 05, 2018 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Technology, Twentieth Century
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