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Daniel Ablitt (b.1976, UK) - Moonlight ribbons. Oil on panel, 35.5 x 28 cm
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The Beatles, Jesus, and Acts of God
During a newspaper interview in March 1966, John Lennon said that the Beatles were “more popular than Jesus.”
On August 13, radio station KLUE in Longview, Texas, organized a bonfire in which protesting Christians burned their Beatles records.
The following day, the station’s broadcast tower was struck by lightning, rendering the news director unconscious and knocking the station off the air.
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Because McDonald’s initially did not want its customers to stay and socialize, they prohibited newspaper boxes, candy machines, telephones, pinball machines, jukeboxes, and other types of entertainment. They also installed uncomfortable chairs to deter customers from lingering.
Historical Nonfiction: A History of High Heels
- Egyptians were the first to have depictions of shoes, which were just strips of flexible leather held in place with lacings
- In the Republican Period of Rome, actors would wear thick-bottomed shoes called kothorni make with cork or wooden soles.
- Special wooden soles called ‘patterns’ which…