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Dr Pepper – Plano, TX
Plano, TX – early 20th century, exact year unknown. My poison of choice. This is the gas station of the great-grandfather of redditor /uMeridianOne, posted at /r/historyporn. The Old Wolf has spoken.
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Albanian hatmakers in Shkodër, 1900-1920
Hatmakers in Skhodër, Albania, 1900-1920. Photo by Kel or Pietro Marubi. Posted by /u/RMSEP at /r/historyporn. Albania has a long, interesting and tortured history. I have a particular interest in the...
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The 5-Cent Restaurants
Found at /r/historyporn, posted by /u/onlysame1 A wonderful explanation and sources were provided by /u/my_interests: tl;dr: This wasn’t just an ordinary restaurant, it was was part of a charity to...
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Eiffel Tower Construction
I found this intriguing series of images over at /r/historyporn, and boy did it bring back some memories. No, not because I was there – I may be old, but I’m not that old – but because I remember...
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Dueling Tesla Coils
I’ve mentioned musical Tesla coils before, but I came across this performance of “Dueling Banjos” and wanted to share it for no good reason. If you get a bit bored by the introduction, stuff gets real...
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Washington, DC Slum – 1940
The nation’s capital, 1940. With liberty and justice for all… The Old Wolf has spoken.
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Slum Life in New York City
The collection of pictures found at io9 is extracted from the website I mentioned in this post, How the Other Half Lives – from a work by Jacob Riis. Mulberry Bend Lodgers in a crowded flat on Bayard...
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Pompeii: The Movie
Pompeii was an interesting movie. I can see why the critics trashed it; the acting was not spectacular and there was way too much overblown drama and not much more than a sappy, derivative plot. That...
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Row Houses, 1938
Rowhouses in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, 1938 (photo by Arthur Rothstein) Found at /r/HistoryPorn
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Upgrading my phone – A descent into Hell
Back in 2008, I bought a shiny new HTC Incredible II, an Android-powered phone. It was the cat’s pajamas – did everything I needed it for, and I loved it. Then, time passed, and as happens in the...
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The things these scammers say…
Time to yank another scammer’s chain. As usual, my side of the conversation is in blue. Notes point out the kinds of red flags that reveal email messages like this as cruel and dishonest scams, just in...
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Not everyone supported WW1
Anti-war meeting in Union Square, New York City – August 8, 1914 Found at /r/HistoryPorn, posted by /u/rpilek
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Canadian Field Comforts
Above: brochure from the Canadian Field Comforts Commission, 1915. These packages were sent to Canadian soldiers on the Western front. Below: A soldier sits in front of crates ready to be sent to...
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Look how good we are at destroying one another
Putting each other back together is harder. J.F.S. Esser, the renowned Dutch plastic surgeon (with the white coat) surrounded by his patients, all in different stages of reconstruction. Berlin –...
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Thanks for the compliment. Not
Comment posted in my blog a few days ago: Hiya very nice web site!! Man .. Beautiful .. Wonderful .. I’ll bookmark your website and take the feeds also? I’m satisfied to search out so many useful...
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It’s groovy, man, groovy…
I just read an article over at the Spectrum entitled “The English language is state of in demise” (sic) in which writer Dan Murphy laments the abysmal condition of our language among modern speakers,...
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Priced out of the market once again.
The text below is summarized and redacted from an article at PolicyMic – I wanted to share the information but there’s too much that’s unrelated or unsavory at the original site. There are plenty of...
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Don’t sit that close to the TV, you’re ruin your eyes.
In a previous post, one of the things I reminisced about was television, and that’s what my mother always told me. I guess she didn’t happen to see this picture which shows a mother and her two...
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Brazil’s World Cup
Art Life A picture is truly worth a thousand words. This is not to disparage Brazil or fútbol, but just to point out a disparity that needs to be addressed. The Old Wolf has spoken.
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Keeping the debate real
OK, I have now seen several posts on Facebook about supposed “independent confirmation” that the Sandy Hook shooting event was a hoax, a drill orchestrated by the Obama administration as an excuse to...
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