Europe
The Anís del Mono Corporate Icon
The monkey who is the symbol of this Spanish anisette company bears the face of Charles Darwin.
Read more here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 21, 2025 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Science, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Historical Figure, Europe, Nineteenth Century, Alcohol
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 61
The official website is here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Mar 31, 2025 -
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Category: Nudism and Nudists, Statues and Monuments, Europe, Twentieth Century
Pope Pius IX and His Evil Eye
The Wikipedia page for the phenomenon known as the Evil Eye mentions:
The wielder of the evil eye, called the jettatore, is described as having a striking facial appearance, high arching brows with a stark stare that leaps from his eyes. He often has a reputation for clandestine involvement with dark powers and is the object of gossip about dealings in magic and other forbidden practices. Successful men having tremendous personal magnetism quickly gain notoriety as jettatori. Pope Pius IX [1846-1878] was dreaded for his evil eye, and a whole cycle of stories about the disasters that happened in his wake were current in Rome during the latter decades of the 19th century.
Could this be true? Well, we learn elsewhere...
And in this volume, we learn:
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 12, 2025 -
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Category: Death, Religion, Supernatural, Occult, Paranormal, Europe, Nineteenth Century
Jan Hakon Erichsen - Destroyer Of Balloons
Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 18, 2025 -
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Category: Art, Destruction, Europe
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 60
"Tufsen" (1949) by Egon Møller-Nielsen.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 01, 2025 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Statues and Monuments, 1940s, Europe
Tightrope Wedding in France
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 28, 2025 -
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Category: Human Marvels, Weddings and Marriage, 1950s, Europe
Fracture
The Wikipedia page of the creators.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 30, 2024 -
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Category: Surrealism, Fantasy, Cartoons, 1970s, Europe
RIP Fratello Metallo, Heavy Metal Monk
His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 20, 2024 -
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Category: Music, Religion, Europe
Heidi Bruhl
German pop of the Sixties. Was it as weird then as it is now?Her Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 08, 2024 -
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Category: Music, 1960s, Europe
George Carl—“French Pantomimist”—on The Ed Sullivan Show
Prime time humor was really different, way back when.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 23, 2024 -
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Category: Human Marvels, Humor, Television, 1960s, Europe
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