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The Sunday Comic – An Uncomplicated Illness
Filed under: Comix, Humour, Illustration Tagged: Illnesses, Moxie's, Uncomplicated
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The Life & Times Of Aunt Mabel – Part 34
When it comes to offering a man a drink in an interesting way few woman have got a repertoire like aunt Mabel. She doesn’t even bother if the man in question is to plastered to hold the drink...
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Needs No Intro……
…… needs no explanationFiled under: Actresses, Movies, The fifties Tagged: 1953, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Marilyn Monroe
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I Hate Elvis A Little Now……
…… quite much actually Filed under: Actresses, Music, Photography, Rock'n'roll, The forties Tagged: Elvis Presley, Sophia Loren
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Volkswagen SP2
Origins of the project In the 70s, the Brazilian market was closed for imports. The only sports car officially made there was the aging (and by then retired) Volkswagen Karmann Ghia, and its failed...
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Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ– French Orientalist
Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ (Paris 10 June 1842 – 19 February 1923 Paris) was an Orientalist French painter and sculptor. He was strongly influenced by the works and teachings of Charles Gleyre...
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Early Reckless Driver
Lieutenant-Commander Montague Grahame-White (racing driver, car, yacht & aeroplane broker), at the wheel of a Wolseley racing car with actor Julius Knight – c. September 23, 1902Filed under:...
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Chilling At The Gym
Patients using exercise machines at the Zander Institute in Stockholm, 1890s. Image courtesy of Tekniska Museet/National Museum of Science and Technology, Stockholm. Dr. Gustav Zander founded the...
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Victorian Smut
The Barrison Sisters reveal kittens beneath their skirts, at the conclusion of their notorious vaudeville cat dance, c. 1890s "In their most famous act, the sisters would dance, raising their skirts...
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The Warship That Inspired ‘The African Queen’ Still Going At 100
France 24 – International News – 19 February 2015 Written by Chris Oke & Erin Byrnes © AFP / by Chris Oke, Erin Byrnes | The MV Liemba, a century old gunship gunship used during the reign of Kaiser...
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The Sunday Comic – The Toothache
Filed under: Comix, Humour, Illustration Tagged: Dentists, Toothaches
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The Life & Times Of Aunt Mabel – Part 35
Aunt Mabel’s thirteenth husband Roderick owned a pub. Yeah, let that sink in for a moment. Mabel with free access to the bottles and barrels in a public house. Disaster you may think, and right you...
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Women On Bikes
Madge Saunders and her husband, British comic actor Leslie Henson, 1920. Sally Halterman, the first woman to be granted a license to operate a motorcycle in the District of Columbia, 1937. An entrant...
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An Uncomplicated Gentleman
Images found on: Ego is a rat on the sinking ship of beingFiled under: Lifestyle, People, Photography, Quotations Tagged: Age, Confessions
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U.S. Revenue Cutter Guard
The USS Guard was a wooden hulled harbour craft built for the United States Revenue Cutter Service at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in California. She was launched October 20, 1913 and would be...
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Moving Aweigh- Popeye (1944)
In this classic animated short, Popeye and his friend Shorty get a telegram that Olive wants to move. They rent a truck & turn up at Olive’s place to help out. The madness begins when they pull up...
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Monroe As Bara
Marilyn Monroe as Theda Bara (f. 1885, d. 1955) in the role as Cleopatra in the movie Cleopatra from 1917Filed under: Actresses, Movies, Photography Tagged: 1917, Cleopatra, Marilyn Monroe, Theda Bara
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Charley in New Town (1948) & Charley Junior’s Schooldays (1949)
‘New Town’ is an entry in a Central Office of Information-sponsored animated series featuring the everyman character Charley, and promotes an escape from grimy, smoggy towns and arduous commutes to...
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An Interesting Duo
Gil Elvgren (March 15, 1914 – February 29, 1980), born Gillette Elvgren in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was an American painter of pin-up girls, advertising and illustration. Elvgren was one of the most...
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The Piako
The ‚Piako‘ was built by Stephens, of Glasgow, in 1876-7 for the New Zealand Shipping Company and was one of the last three of 1,000 ton sister ships built for that firm. Launched in December 1876,...
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