Antique Clippings

Antique humor and clippings, randomly discovered ephemera and interesting things! A lot of the things here are from before 1950, maybe way before. There will be things not politically correct today, ethnic humor, and enemies called names. The past is very messy.

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Monday, May 28, 2007

The Cameo

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1907 Gets Its Name From the Cutting, Not From the Stone The true nature of a cameo is very much misunderstood by the public generally. Most ...
Monday, May 21, 2007

Once in India, The Most Famous of Thrones

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1914 That of Indian Moguls in the Ancient City of Delhi a Marvel of Richness Among bare and ugly British barracks in the ancient capital of ...
Sunday, April 15, 2007

The Elevator, as Far Back as Archimedes

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1920 Ancient Elevator The earliest mention of a device in any way resembling the modern elevator may be read in Vitruvius, who describes a h...
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