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newspapers, photos, weird manuscripts, vintage recipes, trivia, puns
Subterranean beavers are an unlikely, but not impossible, mining hazard. (from Ghost Towns of the Colorado Rockies, R. Brown, 1973)
about 2 months ago
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*world's loudest groan* (The Saint Paul Globe, August 8, 1880)
about 2 months ago
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Is one often unsure of one's mayonnaise? (Spokane Chronicle, June 21, 1926)
about 2 months ago
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A thread of predictions for 2026 from 1926: "Machines will care for [man's] personal needs...flashing him radio-movies of the day's news as it happens" (Montana Record-Herald, July 28, 1926) (1/?)
about 2 months ago
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I'm at the make-quince-jam-for-the-first-time-on-a-whim stage of furlough.
about 2 months ago
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Currently on page 53. Will I finish this 918-page book before the shutdown ends?
2 months ago
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Part of the reason I haven't been able to post much: I have been sans personal computer for many months. Behold, my new baby!!
3 months ago
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🎄 The Molly and The Ivy 🎄
3 months ago
Sometimes the big boss walks into your office randomly and you have to pretend you're working and not reading the wikipedia page list of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1910–1990
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New Old News
3 months ago
When's the last time you had a Chum Chip, a Wisecrack or a Party Poop? (1950)
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Weird! House! History!!!
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The Many Lives of Representative Barzillai Gannett of Massachusetts | US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives
Since it was first published in 1859, the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress has provided readers with information about the lives and careers of federal lawmakers. The long-running ...
https://history.house.gov/Blog/2025/September/9-8-Barzillai/
3 months ago
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Continuing to New England (as a verb)
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New England Things I Saw Today A sign outside a diner that said: BUFFALO CHICKEN OMELET HELP WANTED And now I'm going to think about that forever.
3 months ago
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Saw this neon sign lit up at night in NH and it cured what ails me. (Photo and story from
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3 months ago
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The joy of collecting stickers is only second to the joy of finally having a perfect use for said stickers.
3 months ago
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(ad from the 1945 Colorado Springs Telephone Directory, Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Company)
3 months ago
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DC isn't ready for the 1970s bowling shirt flair that I'm about to bring.
3 months ago
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Did you know you can get REGULAR HOME DELIVERY SERVICE from S&M Egg Ranch? (1940s city directory ad)
3 months ago
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Would anyone be interested in viewing a photo archive of greeting cards from the 1930s-1980s? Asking as someone who has just inherited literally hundreds of my great-grandmother's cards...
3 months ago
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Jennifer Brooks
4 months ago
Minnesota State Fair: the quackening
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Ariel Edwards-Levy
4 months ago
if none of the pasta shapes get a majority, it's first pasta post
add a skeleton here at some point
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Good moon alert!!
4 months ago
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Perhaps biking 17 miles in one day is too much for someone who just got a bike a month ago.
4 months ago
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Recent stress relief: Reading the Largest Prehistoric Animals article on Wikipedia, opening the entries for random animals and going, "Wow, that sure is a big, huh."
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Largest prehistoric animals - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_prehistoric_animals#Non-avian_dinosaurs_%28Dinosauria%29?wprov=sfla1
5 months ago
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Soda Water Time Soda Water Place (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, August 3, 1905)
5 months ago
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Old ads that make you go hmmm: Clown croquet cookie campaign?
5 months ago
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ringwiss
5 months ago
House: motion to adjourn for 9 years Senate: motion to adjourn for −20 years
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Highly recommend Shark: the Illustrated Biography. You get to learn about how many weird sharks there are/ were and it's great.
5 months ago
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The Fake History Hunter
5 months ago
Left to right: architects A. Stewart Walker, Leonard Schultze, Ely Jacques Kahn, William Van Alen, Ralph Walker, D.E.Ward and Joseph H. Freelander dressed as the buildings they designed at the 1931 Beaux Arts ball.
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*pops up out of the grass* ... hello?
5 months ago
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I have some really excellent 1931 newspaper stuff to share if I can just stand to be online for any length of time
11 months ago
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Just saw the
@dropouttv.bsky.social
live improv show, and it was so so so good! Thank you to the cast for making this terrible week in DC a little better!!
11 months ago
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THE CHAPEAU DE CORN (Puck Magazine, September 15, 1886)
11 months ago
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Look! At! That! Mooooon!
11 months ago
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Charlie Feldman
11 months ago
Hansard - reminding you that MPs used to make barnyard noises during debates (1885)
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johnedwinmason
11 months ago
A photo history mystery. Can any of my friends & colleagues help Kevin?
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That's a heck of a job title.
@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
11 months ago
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Excuse me, they did WHAT NOW? (Ronan Pioneer, Ronan, Montana, January 2, 1925)
11 months ago
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The "local brevities" section is always a delight. (Pacific Commercial Advertiser, Honolulu, Hawaii, Feb. 17, 1904)
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A remarkably early English language newspaper appearance of "baka," the Japanese word for idiot: (Mountain Home Republican, Mountain, Idaho, Jan. 2, 1925)
11 months ago
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: Bring back the weird little filler lines at the bottom of newspapers! (Mountain Republican, Mountain, Idaho, Jan. 2, 1925)
11 months ago
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New Year's Day going SWELL over here (doing my first-ever Lego kit at 31)
11 months ago
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I made some little charts with the reading data I've gathered over the last five years! 2024 was a banner year for comics consumption, but we may never match 2019's book level again.
11 months ago
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What People Thought Would Happen in 2025 (a thread!)
about 1 year ago
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My used book came with a bookmark!
12 months ago
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Welp, I got COVID at Thanksgiving and my five year streak has been broken. 💔 This either means LOTS of history posts this weekend, or none as a cough and cough and cough...
about 1 year ago
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Obsessed with this 13th century Byzantine bowl with a running sphinx on it that I saw today.
about 1 year ago
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What People Thought Would Happen in 2025 (a thread!)
about 1 year ago
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I tried to take a dramatic DC morning photo but the Monument looks like the leaning Tower of Pisa.
about 1 year ago
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He was named Takelot but he Leftlittle. (From Eric Cline's "After 1177 BC")
about 1 year ago
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I realized I should reintroduce myself since there are more people here now. I'm a historian and former journalist, and I mostly share weird history and things I learn about food! I like old newspapers (it's in the name), cookbooks, and things in the public domain.
about 1 year ago
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