Weird Universe Blog — July 22, 2024
The Chester Ice Chunk
Sep 8, 1957: A 100-pound chunk of ice fell from the sky onto an empty building in Chester, Pennsylvania.Strange falls of ice from the sky have long fascinated the Fortean crowd. See, for example, "The Ice-Fall Problem" by meteorologist (and UFO enthusiast) James E. McDonald:
Also, "Ice Falls" by Frank Edwards in Strangest of All (1962).
Shamokin News-Dispatch - Sep 9, 1957
The Ada Weekly News - July 1, 1971
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Category: 1950s | Weather
Follies of the Madmen #601
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Category: Food | Stereotypes and Cliches | Advertising | Children | 1950s | Native Americans
July 21, 2024
Lip Stencil
Beauty aid or torture device?
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues | Patents | 1930s
The Human Arrow
There is a non-embeddable video of this at the link.
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Category: Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers | 1930s
July 20, 2024
Love letters from Fiat
Fiat's 1994 Love Letters campaign has to rank as one of the most poorly-thought-out marketing campaigns of all time.
Morristown Daily Record - Mar 13, 1994
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Category: Publicity Stunts | 1990s | Cars
Towers Open Fire
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Category: Jabberwocky, Scat Singing, Nonsense Verse and Glossolalia | Literature | Movies | Surrealism | 1960s
July 19, 2024
English Chemist’s Secret Formulation
Transform from a "fat & lonely" cartoon into a "slim & desirable" photograph in 3 days.It's got my vote for the best before-and-after figures of any weight-loss ad.
Daily Mirror - Mar 25, 1972
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Category: Advertising | 1970s | Dieting and Weight Loss
The 1941 Slide Rule Queen
This honor was bestowed by my home state's university, the University of Rhode Island.
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests | Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues | Science | 1940s | Universities, Colleges, Private Schools and Academia
July 18, 2024
Money in the chicken coop
Sounds like Albert didn't want his sisters to know about the money in the chicken coop. Perhaps it was his intention for it all to burn after he died.
Atlanta Journal - Dec 15, 1968
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Category: Money | Inheritance and Wills | 1960s
The Cellular Cosmogony
Here's your chance to learn the truth: that we are all living inside the Earth, rather than on top of its surface.The Wikipedia page for Koresh, aka Cyrus Teed.
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Category: Eccentrics | Frauds, Cons and Scams | New Age | Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy | Nineteenth Century
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