Sports car and Formula 1 driver Phil Hill with the MG EX181 at the Bonneville Salt Flats in 1959. The 1.5 litre engine produced 300 horsepower and with Hill in the driver's seat it set a Class F speed record of 254.91 mph.
Feb. 6, 1926: Rep. Clarence McLeod (R-Mich.) feeds the pigeons outside the Capitol.
An ad from a 1957 issue of Popular Electronics magazine. Up top, the title: "New! A machine that COMPOSES MUSIC!" To the top left, an image of the "Geniac Electric Brain," a masonite board with a set of six ceramic dials in which electronic components may be mounted; these dials are turned for input and the connections underneath serve as the analog "timer" of sorts; the side has a series of four lights, the machine's output. To the top right, an image of a tune created by the Geniac. Below, dense type promotes the machine ("Yes, you can build any one of 33 electric brain machines!" "Over 400 components and parts!" "Your cost for GENIAC kit: Only $19.95 postpaid" (roughly $200 today). A sidebar lists institutions that have purchased GENIACs (including IBM, Bell, and Westinghouse); at the bottom is an ordering sheet for the Oliver Garfield Co., plus options to show interest in various other scientific fields.
BUILD IT YOURSELF in a few hours!
Feb. 5, 1926: WJAZ of Chicago, which is accused by the federal government of being a pirate station for broadcasting on unassigned frequencies, makes the most of its notoriety. Its staff dress up as buccaneers and sing from an operetta they wrote, “The Pirates.”
Yes I know, I post this one too often, but it could be worse, I'm managing to keep myself from posting it every day.
Feb. 1, 1926: Hollywood's biggest dog star, Rin-Tin-Tin, at home in Los Angeles. According to the caption he is dining with "Nanette, his wife, and six-weeks-old son."
Feb. 1, 1926: “There is no place like home to William O'Donnell and wife of Detroit, Mich., so when they go a-traveling they take their home with them. In this house motor they have just reached Washington, and they are on their way to the sunny South.” (Washington Star)
Jan. 27, 1926: “Finding an old spinning wheel among the family heirlooms, Grace Stockman, of Washington, has found a way to beat the high cost of living.” (Washington Herald)
San Francisco Examiner
Tesla
Jan. 25, 1926: A future in which people around the world will watch events in real time, using devices that fit in their pockets, is foreseen by inventor Nikola Tesla. What sounds like "the magic crystal of fairy tales" will be made a reality by advances in radio technology. 1/2
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Actor, Luke the Dog
& Filmmaker, Roscoe Arbuckle, c. 1914
Happy Weekend
Jan. 23, 1926: Meet the mule that isn't mulish. The running, jumping beast is the property of John Thomas of Pinehurst, N.C., who races it around the racetrack at Pinehurst. Sources fail to mention the lively mule's name.
Jeff Bridges as The Dude in The Big Lebowski — holding up a White Russian drink
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Hey, you made it to Friday, man.
Cheers.
Interdimensional Portal Of The Day.
Jan. 18, 1926: The Motorcycle, Bicycle and Accessory Show opens at Madison Square Garden in New York. Agnes O'Laughlin and Lavergne Lambert demonstrate a motorcycle equipped with firefighting gear.
One of the biggest tells of how blatantly screwed up medicine's mishandling of chronic illnesses is comes from physicians who end up suffering from them pretty much all saying that it's nothing like what they were taught it's like and no one else in the profession is bothered by that.
Jan. 11, 1926: R.L. Scaggs takes his children for a sleigh ride through their Washington, D.C., neighborhood with the help of their pet German shepherds.
Book review 📚 These women helped to shape quantum mechanics — it’s time to recognize them
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Jan. 5, 1926: James Richard with his cats that won the blue ribbon in the "mother and kitten" class at the Atlantic Cat Club Show at New York's Waldorf-Astoria.
Jan. 1, 1926: A human peacock marches in Philadelphia's Mummers Parade, a New Year's Day tradition.
Hilarious video by The Wall Street Journal newsroom, who ran circles around the chatbot running the vending machine. My favorite part was when they convinced it that it was Soviet Russia in 1962 and it should offer everything for free. m.youtube.com/watch?v=SpPh...
Dec. 21, 1925: French inventor Charles Louvel draws rubberneckers along the Promenade des Anglais in Nice with his aerodynamic motor home. "In appearance it is like a carriage of a huge dirigible," reports a wire service. "It contains eight rooms with a bath and kitchenette."
Reload!! I sort of thought the rat would be marked essential but just minutes after buying him, he got killed by that evil wizard in Velas Manor. I was heartbroken. So I reloaded and told him to wait outside. Now I use Wait whenever there's danger ahead!
Finally I also had to get this legend.
It's of course Danuta Danielsson, who whacked a Neo-Nazi marching by with a handbag in Sweden in 1985.
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Nov. 22, 1925, A roadside greeting for motorists in Sunnyside, Idaho.
The rationale behind these studies, Seltzer contests, is [that] “it presumes that the patient had never heard of exercise until a doctor told them [it] exists.”
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
Nov. 19, 1925: A new barnstorming troupe known as the 13 Black Cats, who primarily do stunts on airplanes, but also in cars and on motorcycles. Their motto: "If a Black Cat can't do it–It can't be done."
Santa Monica Beach — Ava Gardner and Burt Lancaster’s post filming (The Killers) photo shoot, 1946
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Happy Weekend
from Santa Monica Beach with Ava Gardner and Burt Lancaster
#BehindTheScenes: A 90s selfie on the set of 1998's 'The Big Lebowski' with Jeff Bridges and Sam Elliott.
Nov. 10, 1925: Ross Gorman gives saxophone lessons to his pupil August Sarentino, a painter, on the Brooklyn Bridge during the latter's lunch hour. According to International News Service, the bridge worker refuses to leave his scaffold, so his teacher comes to him.
