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Seeing that NPR recently published its list of the 'Top 50 Albums' of 2013 , my mind turned to a question asked last year by a fr...

As LED's have become progressively less expensive, the future of indoor lighting looks to be all lit up with them. But back in 1967, ...

It was the first and most important book I never read. Back in first grade, although I was already a big Dr. Seuss fan and could read pic...

Public health campaigns have, it seems, always gone for shock value -- who can forget such ads as the crying Indian , the smoking fetus ,...

Image from the Early Office Museum "Don't you know what duplicates are?" an incredulous Groucho Marx asks brother Chico i...

This steroeview, part of a promotional set offered by the Sears, Roebuck Company to illustrate the plenitude and variety of its store off...

In the annals of non-Indian actors portraying native American Indians in early silent films, Mona Darkfeather (born Josephine Workman) wa...

One might not think about it, but one of the early uses of cinema film was to provide entertainment at many of the large residential psyc...

In the annals of creating manuscript facsimiles with a false (but playful) sense of age, this document has a curious history. In the earl...

In the annals of real and purported "Eskimos" on screen, there may well be no stranger depiction than that given by Asta Nielse...

The impact of the original Batman television series on kids in the early 1960's would be hard to overstate. The first 45 rpm record ...

One of my favorite genres of writing is what might be loosely categorized as facetiæ -- writings which pretend to be something, complete...

When I posted the image of Labradorean Inuit celebrity Nancy Columbia and her dog at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, the post go...

Dr. Jack Van Impe was certainly an impassioned preacher in his younger days -- so impassioned that at several points on this early reco...

Back in the 1920's, insurance companies offered a variety of special plans to members of fraternal organizations -- the Odd Fellows ,...