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See this ad from the March 16, 1926 Washington (D.C.) Evening Star with a swastika in it? 100 years ago, there weren’t any Nazis yet, so this was a completely benign geometric figure.
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St. Andrews Gazette (Fifie) - Friday 25 September 1914
Source: British Newspaper Archive
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Rio de Janeiro, 1952. Squeezed between the pages of the local newspapers, two men in hats were discovered having embarked on an expedition to find facts of a political nature.
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Abbey Theatre Riot (Dublin 11 February 1926) on cover of French newspaper Le Petit Journal illustré. Published 28 February 1926.
Source https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k717721t/f12.item
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Rushcliffe Advertiser (Hucknall, Nottinghamshire) - Friday 24 April 1908
Source: British Newspaper Archive
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Living Without A Media
He could now remember why he no longer read newspapers or watched television programming and it had nothing to do with the political far-right or a royal family living in a palace with servants. The headline had read, ‘expert reveals the 8 clingiest dog breeds - and 1 is absolutely huge’. It was enough. He’d turned off his computer feed immediately. When would they stop boring the arse out of people? If you want to learn about living, live, empirically live and learn from the experiences of your own interactions. It was the greatest known route for actual learning ever and no morsel of your being had to be confused or staunched by the information racket of media conglomerates.
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Was Andrew Jackson a Welcome Guest in Salem in 1833?
Here I am with another Presidents’ Day post which I shall begin with my usual rant about Presidents’ Day: if you merge them all (or Washington and Lincoln) into one day of remembrance you’re going to forget some singular details. Not a fan of generic Presidents’ Day, although I realize we can’t have myriad Mondays off. That said, today I’m posting about one of everyone’s least favorite…
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The Toxicology Report, a guide.
It’s a monthly report, there are numbers and supplements.
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“Terribly frustrating”: After USPS changes, more newspapers aren’t reaching subscribers on time
“Terribly frustrating”: After USPS changes, more newspapers aren’t reaching subscribers on time
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