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I've been volunteering at a thrift store that supports the local humane society / low-cost spay&neuter clinic, and we get lots of interesting things. The other workers learned what I like, and when this came in, they saved it for me. Ladies and gentlemen and goons of all ages, I present the World Wide Illustrated Encyclopedia revised, abridged, and copyrighted 1935. I looked at a couple of entries just to start things off: MARS (the planet) Vegetation, huh? Oh what silly things we used to believe. Mohammedanism (or the faith of Islam) Back before we hated them. So what do you want to see? Give me a topic and if it's in there I'll get pictures of it as soon as I can. Let's look back in time!
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what does it say about the internet
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# ? Jan 13, 2020 20:04 |
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FormaldehydeSon posted:what does it say about the internet Sadly, nothing. It doesn't have an entry for computer either -- I looked.
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# ? Jan 13, 2020 20:08 |
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Hitler, please
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# ? Jan 13, 2020 20:09 |
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Tell me about the heroic Cecil Rhodes.
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# ? Jan 13, 2020 20:11 |
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How it treats Hitler and Germany.
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# ? Jan 13, 2020 20:14 |
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Sun Wukong
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vortmax posted:I've been volunteering at a thrift store that supports the local humane society / low-cost spay&neuter clinic, and we get lots of interesting things. The other workers learned what I like, and when this came in, they saved it for me. Ladies and gentlemen and goons of all ages, I present the World Wide Illustrated Encyclopedia revised, abridged, and copyrighted 1935. Super cool thread idea Domestic cats
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Birth control
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# ? Jan 13, 2020 20:18 |
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Phrenology of the finno-ugric bog orc
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# ? Jan 13, 2020 20:27 |
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Why is there a whole book dedicated to M?
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Arrhythmia posted:Hitler, please Natty Ninefingers posted:How it treats Hitler and Germany. Ooh I didn't think of him. Good one! See GERMANY; HISTORY I have to go back to work now but I'll add more as I can
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# ? Jan 13, 2020 20:28 |
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What do they say about homosexuals
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# ? Jan 13, 2020 20:29 |
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Giant squid (not photographed alive until 2004) Thylacine or Tasmanian tiger (last specimen died in 1936) Loch Ness monster (first modern account was published in 1934) Bigfoot
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# ? Jan 13, 2020 20:29 |
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Genetics and evolution please
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# ? Jan 13, 2020 20:31 |
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I hear the “war to end all wars” served its purpose. Any take on that? What caused the Great Depression that is still going on? What does it think of the current situation in Russia after the revolution? Anything about rocketry?
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# ? Jan 13, 2020 20:31 |
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what does it say about Manchukuo and/or the Japanese invasion of Manchuria?
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# ? Jan 13, 2020 20:32 |
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Spazzle posted:Why is there a whole book dedicated to M? Your mother has a pretty large entry
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Astronomy, particularly things like black holes or neutron stars.
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# ? Jan 13, 2020 20:33 |
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Analingus Hell, any lingus
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# ? Jan 13, 2020 20:35 |
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i would like to know about bowling
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# ? Jan 13, 2020 20:36 |
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Let's get meta and find any entries about BOOKS or ENCYCLOPEDIA or even CYCLOPEDIA There is a difference, believe it or not.
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# ? Jan 13, 2020 20:38 |
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Yo are pangolins in there?
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# ? Jan 13, 2020 20:54 |
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Heroin, plus opium and cannabis could be interesting.
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# ? Jan 13, 2020 20:58 |
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wait, you said it's illustrated? look up boobs
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Jousting
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Race science and eugenics
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Slavery
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# ? Jan 13, 2020 21:02 |
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Tell me about dinosaurs.
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# ? Jan 13, 2020 21:03 |
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Kindly requesting female. An old dictionary I read had the definition as "weaker sex". I'm curious how much racism and sexism this encyclopedia may contain. UltraRed posted:Slavery
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# ? Jan 13, 2020 21:05 |
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Anthropomorphs please
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Nefarious 2.0 posted:wait, you said it's illustrated? Look up penises.
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mom and dad fight a lot posted:
I had a biology book from 1930 and it was so charming because it had a chapter about 'negros' that had a really nice pages long detailed description that science has found no real difference between black and white people and just took apart 1930s racism brick by brick in a totally unexpected way and then the next page was like "chinese people all have worms because they are filthy"
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# ? Jan 13, 2020 21:09 |
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Hazo posted:Giant squid (not photographed alive until 2004) bigfoot wasn't discovered until the 1950s
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# ? Jan 13, 2020 21:12 |
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Bip Roberts posted:Tell me about the heroic Cecil Rhodes. Spinz posted:Domestic cats Don't forget it's Illustrated Icochet posted:Phrenology of the finno-ugric bog orc super sweet best pal posted:Sun Wukong Spinz posted:Birth control you broke my grill posted:What do they say about homosexuals
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# ? Jan 13, 2020 21:39 |
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everything about genitalia of all kinds
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# ? Jan 13, 2020 21:41 |
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Japanese people
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Negrostrike posted:Japanese people Taiwan/Formosa.
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# ? Jan 13, 2020 21:53 |
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I’m going to bet that there are no entries about genitalia but there’s probably a really racist thing printed under the word “negro”.
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Anime.
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