My first – and I hope not only – contribution to #SpinsterSeptember! It’s an annual event organised by Nora and is rightly very popular. Because there are so many interesting spin…| Stuck in a Book
The parents of a 13-year-old bot sued a milk dairy because their son had grown too tall for his age. Would the jury decide in their favor? The post Family Sues Over Son’s Gigantism (1948) appeared first on Useless Information.| Useless Information
Wandering among Words 12: the 1948 show Normally in this ‘Wandering among Words’ feature I explore a group of words or phrases related through meaning, sense and/or etymology. This time, however, I’m going to resort to a gimmick, by examining words and phrases which first appeared in print seventy-five years ago – in 1948. (Not … Continue reading Gimmickry| Calmgrove
The Jeep got its start as a military workhorse, but it has become one of the most favored SUVs for the modern suburban mom. Most people think that transformation began in the 1970’s, but they…| J. P.'s Blog
In 1947, Christian Dior established his own maison de la couture with a collection that contributed to the revival of haute couture in France after World War II. Katie Somerville quotes Dior in The House of Dior: Seventy Years of Haute Couture (2017):| Fashion History Timeline