Twenty-first Century
Amazons of the Year 2000
THE DAILY SENTINEL of Colorado predicts in 1950 that all the women of the year 2000 will be giants.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Feb 09, 2024 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, 1950s, Women, Twenty-first Century
Pope.L, Crawl Artist, RIP
We don't want this recent death to get lost in the end-of-the-year chaos!His obituary.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jan 03, 2024 -
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Category: Urban Life, Avant Garde, Performance Art, Twentieth Century, Twenty-first Century
Happy New Year’s Day 2024!
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 01, 2024 -
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Category: Holidays, Wild West and US Frontier, Twenty-first Century
Merry Christmas 2023
The model's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 25, 2023 -
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Category: Domestic, Holidays, Hollywood, Twenty-first Century
PLAY: A Ballet by Alexander Ekman
Your opinions of these clips solicited.The creator's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 13, 2023 -
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Category: Avant Garde, Dance, Twenty-first Century
Miss Tall International
Instead of "Miss Tall International," I prefered the old name for this contest, per this 1952 entry."Miss California Tip Topper of '52": Sonia Smevik, 18, 6'1 3/4" crowned by Actor John Hubbard. L to R background: Peggy Mcconnell; Pat Hostetter; Marlize Schrad; Toby Guthrie; Joan Wark; Pat Hart; Phyllis Foresberg".
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 04, 2023 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Human Marvels, Twentieth Century, Twenty-first Century
The Broom Paintings of Emily Mae Smith
Your opinions solicited.The artist's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 19, 2023 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Art, Twenty-first Century
The Rose Percy Doll
Read here the whole history of a very expensive doll that became the Junior Red Cross's icon.Under Bertha [Peter’s] care, Rose Percy aided worthy causes for a sixty-year period. In 1919, near the end of her life, Bertha placed Rose on temporary loan to the American Red Cross Museum in Washington D.C. The very next year, Bertha gifted Rose to the organization, and with that gift, she became the official mascot of the Junior Red Cross. Rose served in that capacity for over eighty years, and during that time greeted visitors from all over the world.
The year 2010 found the American Red Cross facing deficits, so the decision was made to sell off valuable assets in order to reduce their debt. Countless historic artifacts were sent to the auction block, including Rose Percy, who is in fact, older than the Red Cross itself.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 04, 2023 -
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Category: Charities and Philanthropy, Medicine, Dolls and Stuffed Animals, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Twenty-first Century
Phone-Carrying Bra
The patent is here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 03, 2023 -
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Category: Inventions, Telephones, Underwear, Twenty-first Century
M&M Honey
I read this story upon its appearance, and for some reason it recently returned to the forefront of my mind. It seems that someone would have subsequently produced this intentionally.When I was in Sicily, I got to sample the light-green pistachio honey produced there.
NBC video report here.
Whole article and more pics here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jul 20, 2023 -
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Category: Food, Insects and Spiders, Europe, Twenty-first Century
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