Abdul's official "The past is a foreign country" thread.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sat Feb 20, 2021 7:17 pm

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Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sun Feb 21, 2021 1:31 am

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Sun Feb 21, 2021 12:07 pm

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sun Feb 21, 2021 12:23 pm

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Witness · Post by **Witness** » Mon Feb 22, 2021 1:34 am

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Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sat Feb 27, 2021 3:37 am

https://old.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglev ... a_company/

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Sat Feb 27, 2021 10:43 am

Stirling?

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Witness · Post by **Witness** » Mon Mar 01, 2021 3:32 am

Rob Lister wrote: ↑Sat Feb 27, 2021 10:43 am Stirling?

Probably but it's difficult to be sure: the thing is a kind of novelty item (!) – you can buy a copy from Amazon – so the Web is full of meaningless blather, and some say "steam" (which I doubt as it would take longer to start).

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Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Fri Mar 05, 2021 1:16 am

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Fri Mar 12, 2021 5:19 pm

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Witness · Post by **Witness** » Mon Mar 15, 2021 3:15 am

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From Reddit:

My grandma hanging out with Albert Einstein in her backyard. Taken around 1945

BACKSTORY TO THIS PIC:

Edit to the title: this wasn’t in her backyard, it was in Einstein’s backyard!

My grandma was an actress. She was doing a show in NY and one of her friends was going to meet him at his house out of the city, and wanted to know if Nan wanted to come along too.

So they spent a lovely afternoon in upstate NY with him. She asked him to sketch his theory of relativity on a cocktail napkin, which he did for her... sadly she did not keep it, and I heard her many times over the years express regret for that.

https://old.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/ ... nstein_in/

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Wed Mar 17, 2021 8:13 pm

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Witness · Post by **Witness** » Wed Mar 17, 2021 11:30 pm

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sun Mar 21, 2021 11:19 pm

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Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sun Mar 21, 2021 11:44 pm

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shemp · Post by **shemp** » Mon Mar 22, 2021 3:02 am

There must be easier ways of dealing with bad feng shui.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Mon Mar 22, 2021 3:05 am

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The highlight of the 1889 World Exhibition.

Grammatron · Post by **Grammatron** » Wed Mar 24, 2021 9:11 pm

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 6:12 pm

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Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Mon Mar 29, 2021 12:33 pm

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Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sat Apr 03, 2021 1:14 am

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Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Mon Apr 05, 2021 12:02 am

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In my case it was "jiggle that tube in the back of the set without getting electrocuted."

shemp · Post by **shemp** » Mon Apr 05, 2021 2:03 am

Pong.

Grammatron · Post by **Grammatron** » Mon Apr 05, 2021 8:33 pm

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Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue Apr 06, 2021 3:25 am

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Charlie Chaplin with Winston Churchill in his Hollywood studio on September 24, 1929.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Fri Apr 09, 2021 6:17 pm

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Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sat Apr 10, 2021 3:25 am

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Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sat Apr 10, 2021 12:34 pm

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Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sun Apr 11, 2021 11:55 pm

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Moscow, 1950s.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Tue Apr 13, 2021 9:48 pm

In case you're out there lurking, Abdul...here's one for the railfans:

Tim Dunn
@MrTimDunn

Today would be the 250th birthday of Richard Trevithick, who, despite dying penniless, built London’s (& indeed the world’s) first loco to take fare-paying passengers. In 1808, just south of where Euston Sq tube is now, ‘Catch-Me-Who-Can’ ran: 20+ years before ‘Rocket’ arrived.

https://i.imgur.com/dCGo5oM.jpg

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Thu Apr 15, 2021 1:33 am

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Soviet model Mila Romanovskaya w. a mock of a spacecraft, August 1968.

Grammatron · Post by **Grammatron** » Thu Apr 15, 2021 8:19 pm

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Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Sun Apr 18, 2021 8:23 am

Interesting:

https://cartoons.osu.edu/digital_exhibits/abwalker/

– J.D.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue Apr 20, 2021 2:36 am

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A Union soldier posing beside newly liberated slaves, they belonged to Brigadier General Thomas Drayton of the Confederate Army. American Civil War, South Carolina, May 1862. Photo taken by Henry P. Moore.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sat May 15, 2021 9:56 pm

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Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue May 18, 2021 3:50 am

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robinson · Post by **robinson** » Wed May 19, 2021 6:06 am

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Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sat May 22, 2021 2:31 am

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Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sun May 23, 2021 10:38 pm

Group of tyrants trying to use the world wide flu epidemic to enslave the entire Republican party in 1918

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Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Tue May 25, 2021 12:06 pm

Witness wrote: ↑Sat May 22, 2021 2:31 am https://i.imgur.com/2CyUCB8.jpg

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