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Penchant For Pink
1922: The discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun sparked a worldwide craze for ancient Egypt. One manifestation of “Tutmania” was the novelist Barbara Cartland’s penchant for billowy pink chiffon. “I saw all this wonderful pink on the walls and the artefacts [of the tomb],” she recalled many years later. “I was so terribly impressed that I vowed to wear it for the rest of my life.”
Source: The…
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Seasickness
1921: In January, D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, toured Sardinia. Lawrence described their visit in a brief, sometimes tetchy book, Sea and Sardinia. When they boarded the ferry at the end of their trip, Frieda refused to share a cabin with three Italian women since, although the sea was smooth as glass, she knew they “would all be sick simply for the fuss of it”.
Source: D.H. Lawrence, S…
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Yes Or No?
1920: From London, where he worked as a cartoonist on The Star, New Zealander David Low proposed to Madeline Kenning in Auckland.
“Will you marry me?” he asked by cablegram, and prepaid for a one-word reply.
Source: David Low, Low’s Autobiography (1956), p. 110
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Helpful Police
1919: When Davidson Black, newly arrived at Peking Union Medical College, required cadavers for teaching his students anatomy, the police obligingly sent a cartload of executed prisoners, all headless. Black explained that he needed the bodies intact, so next time the prisoners were sent to him alive, with instructions that he was to execute them any way he wished.
Source: Alan Walker and Pat…
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Coriolis Effect
1918: When the Germans began bombarding the French capital from 120 kilometres away with the gigantic Pariser Kanone, the shells took so long to reach the target – three minutes – that the gunners had to adjust their aim to take into account the Earth’s rotation.
Source: Jearl Walker, The Flying Circus of Physics (2007), p. 66
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Shaving With Toothpaste
1917: News of the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II so distracted the Bolshevik exile Maxim Litvinov that he got into the bathtub without running any water and tried to shave with his toothpaste.
Source: Robert Service, Spies & Commissars: Bolshevik Russia and the West (2011), pp. 12–13
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Kill All The Cats
Kill All The Cats
1916: New York City struggled to control an epidemic of poliomyelitis. Nine thousand cases of the infectious disease, also called infantile paralysis, were reported; 2,343 people died. Most of the victims were children.
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Perfectly Sober Steed
1915:After struggling through rain and sleet to the Italian town of Sant’ Angelo, Norman Douglas rewarded his coach driver with a coin, which cheered the man up. Douglas suggested that the driver buy himself something to eat, but when he saw him again a little later, the man’s inept smile made it obvious he had spent the money on alcohol instead of food. Just a glass, he grinned, of wine. “But…
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New Year Prediction
1914: David Lloyd George’s comments in the Daily Chronicle on 1 January, downplaying tensions between Britain and Germany, were as wayward as a poor New Year prediction. “Our relations with Germany,” said the Chancellor of the Exchequer, “are infinitely more friendly now than they have been for years.”
Source: Mark Bostridge, The Fateful Year: England 1914 (2014), p. xxvii
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Cody's Final Flight
Cody’s Final Flight
1913:Residents of Farnborough who gazed overhead on the morning of 7 August will have spotted Samuel Cody’s latest flying machine trundling across the sky. In 1908 “Colonel” Cody had been the first, or one of the first, to achieve powered flight in Britain, and since then his aeroplanes had become a familiar sight above the Hampshire town. On that particular August morning, people may have…
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"Best For Health"
“Best For Health”
1912: Only an advertising agency, I suspect, would have the gall to extract data from an article in The Lancet entitled “The toxic factor in tobacco” and include it in an advertisement for pipe tobacco that proclaimed “CRAVEN Mixture as the best for health”.
Source: Kate Parker, What the Doctor Smokes (2007), p. 35
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Canals On Mars
1911: The Suez Canal had opened 40 years earlier and construction of the Panama Canal was well advanced. But were the inhabitants of Mars building canals that were far more impressive than anything on Earth? The amateur astronomer Percival Lowell thought so. On 27 August, The New York Times ran a story on his astronomical observations and theories under the headline: MARTIANS BUILD TWO IMMENSE…
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Why Whiteness?
W.E.B. du Bois, photographed in 1918 by Cornelius Battey
1910: The black American essayist W.E.B. du Bois exposed the absurdity of white racism with a simple piercing question: “What on earth is whiteness that one should so desire it?”
Source: W.E. Burghardt du Bois, Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil (1920), pp. 29–30
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Pie In The Face
Pie In The Face
Cross-eyed actor Ben Turpin, photographed in 1921
1909: Mr. Flip featured the first cinematic use of an important item in the slapstick comedian’s arsenal: the pie in the face. The cross-eyed actor Ben Turpin spent the entire film pestering young female workers, but a waitress got her own back by rubbing a pie in her tormentor’s face.
Source: https://hubpages.com/education/The- Cultural-Evol…
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Anthropomorphism
1908: The Times Literary Supplement review of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows doubted whether a mole would whitewash his house, a water rat sail a skiff or a toad become a rabid motorist. “As a contribution to natural history,” the reviewer observed, “the work is negligible.”
Source: The Times Literary Supplement, 22 October 1908
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Pavlovian Pedantry
Ivan Pavlov depicted on a 1969 Soviet postage stamp
1906: Pardon the pedantry, but Ivan Pavlov used a buzzer, not a bell, to stimulate salivation in laboratory dogs. The popular notion that the Russian physiologist rang a bell appears to have originated from the mistranslation of a speech in The Lancet.
Source: Daniel P. Todes, Ivan Pavlov: A Russian Life in Science(2014), pp. 1, 287, 315,…
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Freudian Quip
1905: Two examples from Sigmund Freud’s The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious:
A physician visits a sick woman. As he’s leaving, he shakes his head and says to the woman’s husband: “I don’t like the look of your wife.”
The husband agrees: “I haven’t liked the look of her for a long time.”
Here is another joke, which Freud considered “rather coarse-grained”:
Two Jews are talking…
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