Wonkette writer Robyn Pennacchia went on a brilliant Twitter rant about the strange history of square dancing, which is not an old American tradition, but rather a 20th century hoax that Henry Ford and Dr Pappy Shaw created to get white people to stop dancing to music made by black people.
Ford even got school districts to teach square dancing in gym classes, and convinced 27 states to make square dancing their official state dances. PUT YOUR TIN FOIL HATS ON, we are about to go on a VERY wild ride. [Robyn Pennacchia/Twitter]
Preservationists restoring an 18th century statue of Jesus that was hanging in Burgos, Spain’s church of St. Águeda found a two handwritten letters tucked into the figure’s buttocks. Dated 1777, the notes were written by chaplin Joaquín Mínguez from the Burgo de Osma cathedral. The letters will be archived by the office of the Archibishop […]
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In 1942, Hitler paid a secret visit to Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Marshal of Finland and Commander-in-Chief of the Finnish Defence Forces in honor of Mannerheim's 75th birthday.
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Arcade Club, near Manchester in England, is Europe’s biggest collection of classic games. Retromash went for a visit. Let’s cut to the chase. This place has over 250 arcade machines. Just take that in for a second. It’s the biggest arcade in Europe. I don’t know even know how many arcades in the UK had […]
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Flying home for the holidays will always be a stressful endeavor, but these mobile accessories can help make the delayed flights, slow security lines, and bad WiFi a little more tolerable. Everything listed here can be had for 15% off their usual prices when you use code GIFTSHOP15 at checkout: MicFlip Fully Reversible MicroUSB Cable: […]
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Social media has largely devoured traditional marketing channels, but the tools provided by Facebook, Twitter, et al. are more focused around individual users, not businesses. If you want to have better control over your brand’s social network profiles, take a look at SMhack Business. It’s a centralized hub for publishing and managing content, and right […]
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uTalk is an educational app designed to get you speaking in a new tongue as soon as possible, and the subscription in the Boing Boing Store has been reduced to $19.99. With uTalk, you can choose from a huge list of over 130 languages — you aren’t stuck with just the most popular selections from […]
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