Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 08, 2024 -
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Category: Animals, Eccentrics, Music, Europe, Nineteenth Century
Dancer Nina Payne (USA) Nina Payne doing exercises in the Elizabeth Arden beauty parlor, Paris (to prepare for her performance in the Folies-Bergere) - undated, probably 1925
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jan 20, 2024 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1920s, Dance, Europe
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 12, 2024 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Music, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, Outsider Art, Twentieth Century, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Posted By: Alex - Thu Dec 28, 2023 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Paranormal, Weather
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 19, 2023 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Gonzo, Demento, Kooky, Wacky and Out-there, Pseudoscience, Books, Nineteenth Century
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 15, 2023 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Hobbies and DIY, Inventions, Air Travel and Airlines, 1930s
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 09, 2023 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Human Marvels, Twentieth Century
Dyar told the Washington Star that the urge started when he dug a flowerbed for his wife around 1906. "When I was down perhaps 6 or 7 feet, surrounded only by the damp brown walls of old Mother Earth, I was seized by an undeniable fancy to keep on going."
Posted By: Paul - Sun Aug 27, 2023 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Caves, Caverns, Tunnels and Other Subterranean Venues, North America, Twentieth Century
Chrome is an American rock band founded in San Francisco in 1976 by musician Damon Edge and associated with the 1970s post-punk movement.[3] The group's raw sound blended elements of punk, psychedelia, and early industrial music,[4] incorporating science-fiction themes, tape experimentation, distorted acid rock guitar, and electronic noise.[5] They have been cited as forerunners of the 1980s industrial music boom.[6] They found little commercial success as part of San Francisco's 1970s music scene...
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 16, 2023 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Music, 1970s, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 10, 2023 -
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Category: Bicycles and Other Human-powered Vehicles, Eccentrics, Sports
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