Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 30, 2024 -
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Category: Explorers, Frontiersmen, and Conquerors, Fables, Myths, Urban Legends, Rumors, Water-Cooler Lore, Asia, North America, Nineteenth Century
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 27, 2024 -
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Category: Animals, Destruction, Regionalism, 1900s, North America, Alcohol
One Little Indian, Grant Munro, provided by the National Film Board of Canada
Posted By: Paul - Wed May 08, 2024 -
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Category: Highways, Roads, Streets and Traffic, Magic and Illusions and Sleight of Hand, PSA’s, Stop-motion Animation, 1950s, North America, Native Americans, Circuses, Carnivals, and Other Traveling Shows
CANADA - NOVEMBER 25: In training: Entrants in the Miss Grey Cup contest worked out at the Toronto Women's Club yesterday. Left to right are Miss B.C. Lion Debbie Kushner; Miss Calgary Stampeder Sherri Brooks; Miss Hamilton Tiger Cat Angie Balogh; Miss Montreal Concorde Lynda Mercier; Miss Winnipeg Blue Bomber Kim Walls; Miss Saskatchewan Roughrider Leslie McNaughton; Miss Toronto Argonaut Suzanne Housego and Miss Edmonton Eskimo Betty Jandewerth.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Feb 18, 2024 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Odd Names, North America, Twentieth Century
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jan 27, 2024 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Sports, North America
Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 17, 2023 -
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Category: Holidays, Parades and Festivals, Theater and Stage, North America, United Kingdom
Posted By: Paul - Tue Aug 29, 2023 -
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Category: Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Death, Lakes, Ponds, Rivers, Streams, Swamps and Other Bodies of Fresh Water, North America, 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
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jul 04, 2023 -
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Category: Games, Holidays, North America
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 11, 2023 -
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Category: 1910s, North America, Slang
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