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13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCVXVII)

1. Turn-of-the-Century American Postcards That Hint At Having Sex The series called “It’s Easy To Say, But Hard To Do,” is a double entendre reference to a man asking a woman to get married. “Ask, and you will get it,” a not too subtle hint – ask me to marry you and then we can…

The Hollywood Canteen where Movie Stars were at your Service

Hours away from being shipped off to Europe’s battlefields or back on US soil for a brief reprieve, there wasn’t a single American serviceman passing through Los Angeles in the 1940s that wouldn’t have lined around the block for an evening at the Hollywood Canteen. Set up in an abandoned nightclub near Sunset Boulevard, if you were wearing…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCVXVI)

1. Women sit for a portrait in Salzburg, Austria, 1929 Found on Nat Geo Found 2. These Eggs The latest chef d’oeuvres by jeweler Ananov, one of the main exhibits he made for the “400 years of the House of Romanov” at the Historical Museum of Moscow in 2013. Ananov’s Easter egg caught the eye of…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCXV)

1. A list of Pet Peeves about Secretaries from 1945 From a brochure about how to be a “super secretary” created by Remington Typewriters… Find the full brochure on the Hagley Digital Archives found via Slate. 2. The woman who was told she couldn’t eat at NYC’s fanciest restaurant, so she brought her whole squad Deny her…

House Hunting like a Russian Millionaire is seriously Entertaining Stuff

I can’t believe I never googled Russian real estate before! We all know our friends from the former Soviet Union have a special kind of taste when it comes to interior design, but with a limitless decorating budget, it just gets even better. I decided to window shop with Sotheby’s Realty, which has a colourful…

An Insider’s Guide to the Unknown Kingdoms

One of my first ever published articles back when I was writing for a local magazine in London, was about a street in Notting Hill called Freston Road, which declared independence from the United Kingdom in 1977. Frestonia, essentially a community of squatters who had come together to secede from the UK after the local council threatened to evict them, had their…

Take a Step Back in Time into these Flower Power Fashion Comic Books

Today I went in search of mindless distractions from reality. Perhaps you did the same. I went to my happy place and took a deep dive into the archives and photo pools of Flickr. There, I found these 1960s hippie-mod fashion pages from various romance comic books of the 60s and 70s. Some of them have empowering…

Backstage Fakery at Universal City in 1963

Universal Pictures was founded by a German immigrant, Carl Laemmle, who opened his first cinema in Chicago in 1906. In the early days, other studio chiefs laughed at Carl’s haphazard Universal City and nicknamed it “Laemmle’s Folly”. But the ambitious film pioneer would become responsible for creating the “star system”, rather than just using anonymous actors in films, and…

Alaska’s Eskimo Ghost Village on Stilts

For thousands of years, a community of Inupiat Eskimos lived, survived and thrived in one of the harshest environments in the world. This is King Island and these are the improbable cliff-hanging houses of Ukivok that a displaced community still calls home more than 50 years after its abandonment. (c) NOAA Photo Library In 1959, the…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCXIII)

1. The Ruins of this Ancient Roman Library The library was completed in 135 AD and was built to house 12,000 scrolls and to honor the Roman Senator Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus, whose tomb is below the entrance. Photos found via Travel Junkies and Flickr 1, 2, 3 2. This Building in Macau Found on…

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