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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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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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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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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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Hazo posted:Giant squid (not photographed alive until 2004)  Okay, sure!  Hmmmm, it's not there. Must have been abridged. Nothing on the others. Not even an entry for loch.  Doctor Eckhart posted:Genetics and evolution please     Xenocides posted:I hear the “war to end all wars” served its purpose. Any take on that?  But I'm not posting it all. Have some illustrations!      Nothing on the depression, so here's the latest on Russia:   And finally, rocket flight! 
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I don't think I'm going to be able to post any more tonight, but keep asking and I'll add more tomorrow! PS imgur's app is poo poo
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ELI PORTER posted:what does it say about Manchukuo and/or the Japanese invasion of Manchuria?  Labes for days posted:Astronomy, particularly things like black holes or neutron stars.    Nefarious 2.0 posted:i would like to know about bowling  Sadly, nothing about the Bowling Green massacre EorayMel posted:Let's get meta and find any entries about BOOKS or ENCYCLOPEDIA or even CYCLOPEDIA  Plus a bit on bookbinding   HUG ME FOREVER posted:Yo are pangolins in there?  Xaintrailles posted:Heroin, plus opium and cannabis could be interesting.    See DRUG HABITS  Nefarious 2.0 posted:wait, you said it's illustrated?  Sid Vicious posted:Jousting  Okay...  Looks like they abridged it out. Would you accept Fencing instead?   Pththya-lyi posted:Race science and eugenics   UltraRed posted:Slavery   Elukka posted:Tell me about dinosaurs.  They actually got the connection to birds right!? mom and dad fight a lot posted:Kindly requesting female.  Okay that's almost the first page down! I'm loving the reactions from y'all to these articles. More to come soon.
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Negrostrike posted:Japanese people   Xaintrailles posted:Taiwan/Formosa.   HONG KONG SLUMLORD posted: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”.    Baller Time posted:Australia   (sorry) kimihia posted:Dodo bird    Son of Rodney posted:Republicans    dead prez posted:Vaccines  BigBadSteve posted:Psychology. Private Cumshoe posted:anything psychiatry/psychology is probably pretty funny    Gath posted:Look up the Belgian congo. I bet thats a good one   lofi posted:These are really fun, thanks! Tell me about modern art!  Mermaid Autopsy posted:Television   dead prez posted:Comstock Lode is gonna be my porn name   sticksy posted:"Sex," please.   sticksy posted:Look up "dating" or more likely, "courtship." Need some pointers before I go cruise the retirement homes. you broke my grill posted:do they have penicillin dead prez posted:are there any good examples of attempts at marrying god and science Now a few other interesting things I found  That poo poo is nothing new  Oh no, a picture of the Prophet is forbidden!!
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OK for real this timeBaller Time posted:Australia    Mr. Dick posted:John von Neumann  PTSDeedly Do posted:The Great Depression   Caesar Saladin posted:can i get a rundown on the different races?  Hmmmm....    dead prez posted:automotive emissions standards       Bonus motorcycle  my dog died im sad posted:The entry for Jazz could be interesting.  VideoTapir posted:US Civil War     Fun fact: Forrest City, Arkansas is named after this piece of poo poo   There's not much on the USSR but the history to that point    Colonel Cancer posted:Did anyone request comrade Lenin? Let's look him up 
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 There's a whole section on electricity in medicine and it's fascinating     Renegret posted:Germ Theory, or really anything medical related that we take for granted these days.    Korthal posted:Modern Chinese history. How's our boy Chiang Kai Shek doing?  lllllllllllllllllll posted:Suffragism   Xotl posted:Well, along those lines there's plate tectonics. This is just around the time it was beginning to get acceptance, so I'd be curious to see what a layman's work says.    But here's the entry on earthquakes, which gets close to plate tectonics:    Fluffy Bunnies posted:talk to me about cancer or diabetes please thank you    Randarkman posted:For something from the early 20th century, which I posit was the golden age of racism, this is actually much less racist than I expected. Also, was this put out by a church or some other type of Christian organization? Wondering about that because of how much it went into describing criticism of the theory of evolution and how it seemed very interested in the relations between the nazi party and German church organizations.    Sten Freak posted:submachine gun please  Voting Floater posted:Anything on Mahatma Gandhi in there?   Hazo posted:We didn’t have all the states back then, right? Show us Alaska and Hawaii.    Marta Velasquez posted:What did they know about the Moon back then? No one had landed on it yet.   sticksy posted:"Treaty of Versailles" and it might've been covered under "evolution," but anything about the Scopes Monkey Trial?    Dont Touch ME posted:Look up Judiasm, let's see how "of the times" this thing really is.   Vincent Van Goatse posted:Radiation or radioactivity or anything to do with atomic theory  MageMage posted:Gender & Sexuality Pththya-lyi posted:Calling it now: it's only going to talk about "gender" in terms of grammatical categories. "Gender" as a socially-constructed role distinct from biological sex was hardly ever talked about until the 1970s.  Vietnamwees posted:What's it say about crabs? Both the sea creatures and the STD.   SpazmasterX posted:On that note, I'm curious if "feminism" shows up that far back with a definition as expected, if at all. Mooey Cow posted:Do they have anything on Antonie (Anton) Pannekoek (Pancake)?  evilmiera posted:Anything on Elizabeth Windsor? (That book is a year before her father got the throne abdicated to him so maybe not).  Vakal posted:Do they have any sort of listing for Post Traumatic Stress or do they just keep calling it Shell Shock?  dead prez posted:this is cool as heck well done op I'm nearly caught up now, so this is probably the last update for tonight. But please keep adding topics and share your thoughts on the most recent articles 
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I've been really busy at work, but I'll more posted sometime today, I promise. Lots of really good suggestions!
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Who What Now posted:What's it say about sodomy?  MageMage posted:Waste Disposal   MageMage posted:Fashion  Pththya-lyi posted:Knitting    Lil Peeler posted:I'm curious about its article on Mormonism  Nothing on that old fraud Joe Smith but Brigham Young gets an entry  Kill All Cops posted:I'm interested in reading about Hong Kong  Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:What can it tell me about cocaine  EorayMel posted:If double dipping is allowed, I want to know what this encyclopedia has to say about gasoline/petroleum now.   Look at those pathetic production numbers  Gutter Phoenix posted:This thread is awesome!!!   Mooey Cow posted:Oh, please look up Nikola Tesla. This may have been before he was largely scraped from history.   There's the first batch for today! I have pictures of all requests (that are in there) so they're on the way too. Please like and subscribe and hit the notification bell kthx.
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Explosive Tampons posted:I'm feeling like The Time Machine, if that library stuff from the new movie was actually pulled from the book, so: You get this:  As for the others, only a small entry for Babbage is there. But I added the article about conduction in place of semiconductors   Platystemon posted:Thanks for sharing, vortmax.   Nothing on the new Klan, just the OG Klan  (the superstitious blacks) It looks like they only knew about the red panda? I looked for giant panda but found nothing.   I'll come back to the New Deal in the next post because it's several pages. Gutter Phoenix posted:That's exactly what I was thinking. Has the article on just generic paleontology been posted yet?  Mirage posted:The planet Pluto was discovered in 1935, might it be in there?  Before the Western Powers made Israel a country  gleebster posted:Not much under Columbus about them, but how about ARAWAK or TAINO?  tango alpha delta posted:Leningrad (Saint Petersburg)  See Petrograd  There are a few more things to come but they're long entries so I'll put them in another post.
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Platystemon posted:Thanks for sharing, vortmax.       Ornamental Dingbat posted:Quantum mechanics - might still be the German Quantenmechanik   I was honestly surprised to find an entry for quantum theory   Skellybones posted:Fascism OhFunny posted:What do they say about Mussolini?     Flutieflakes017 posted:This thread is amazing. Thank you.
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Woodchip posted:Family illy posted:I'm pretty interested in old-timey sexology, could you look up the following? Kill All Cops posted:I would like to request Guam next please!  Platystemon posted:Pandas were snubbed. B Squad Leader posted:Hockey? There were 10 teams in the 20s, but only the Original Six '42 thru '67.   Evil Agita posted:Pornography Cowslips Warren posted:How about Homosexuality, Abortion, and H.H. Holmes? Flutieflakes017 posted:What about "abortion?" I demand misleading outdated entries related to sex.   Oh.... Oh no...  Outrail posted:What does it say about the environment, global warming and other catastrophic realities of the 21st century?   dead prez posted:is Automaton in there?  tango alpha delta posted:If I may double dip: I was looking for Manifest Destiny but it's not really laid out that way. I could provide the pages from United States history covering that era if you'd like more. vortmax fucked around with this message at 15:32 on Jan 17, 2020 |
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I promise I haven't forgotten about all y'all. I will catch up tomorrow during my day off, so add more now if you want to get in the next update!
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First holy poo poo I didn't look up the actual term birth control because I didn't think it was used then but here it is!!   Ornamental Dingbat posted:Look up hysteria  sticksy posted:Good suggestion - on the same theme, is robot or Metropolis featured?   Ornamental Dingbat posted:Imbecile and/or moron    Bonus:  Ocean Book posted:thank you so much this thread is great           Who What Now posted:Look up menstruation. I'm curious because it'll either be like two sentences or two pages.   Voting Floater posted:Gonna have to get creative to find some dirty bits. Anything good for Sappho? Or Oscar Wilde maybe?   "convicted for serious offences against morality"  JacquelineDempsey posted:I'd like to see snail, octopus, and/or nautilus!       you broke my grill posted:the Roman poet Catullus, author of the most obscene poetry ever written Gutter Phoenix posted:Ooh, I'd like to see this too. Has the Satyricon been requested? If not, I'd like to see that too.    Explosive Tampons posted:Hey you can't blame me about the Time Machine query, I forgot how actual encyclopedias work after years of Wikipedia brainrot (was expecting a mention of the novel or something). :p  Gianthogweed posted:Liberalism/Conservativism. I know the term neoliberalism wasn't coined until 1938 by Alexander Rustow so it's probably not there, but I'm curious.    :old-timey man Ha! Ha! meme:   Bonus entries:   Bonus cat: Luna tried to help with my work  
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Cowslips Warren posted:Can we please see Transgender/Crossdresser, Archduke Ferdinand, and Lobotomy?  Fuckstick posted:Might try hermaphroditism  Original_Z posted:Korea, South Africa, and Prohibition would probably give some interesting information.        CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:whats it say about the irish        mazzi Chart Czar posted:Are these name even in there, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Bertrand Russell, and Marcel DuChamp.      I'm surprised these got their own entries instead of being lumped in with Japan   Outrail posted:It's almost the 26th. Anything about bbqs or Australia? SEE ALSO forest fire Meander posted:I’d like to know about the platypus, the giraffe and New Zealand please OP.       Outrail posted:What has a longer entry, cat or dog?    But sometimes under a specific breed you can see one  Bonus entries!         Is there a thread on book repair? Poor volume V is coming apart  
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The Grimace posted:This is a really cool thread, OP! Thanks for sharing your encyclopaedia with us. That Robot posted:This but for cartoons. They were still in black and white back then afaik. Hazo posted:Along these lines, see if Walt Disney has an entry          MageMage posted:Women's Health/Hysteria/Vaccines/Civil War/Cuisine shame on an IGA posted:Stars / The Sun   Bonus entries: sunspots and sundials     More bonus entries (AKA stuff I found while looking for your requests)        
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That Robot posted:It would be interesting to see if there were any references to the St. Valentines Day Massacre, Al Capone or the recently-repealed Prohibition.  g0lbez posted:this is literally the first time I've voted a thread 5 (or any number) in over a decade, thanks for the effort/good poo poo OP No but seriously I'm glad y'all are enjoying this mazzi Chart Czar posted:Is there any information on farming, because it was the job most people did at the beginning of the 1900's?   See agriculture    Bonus article on the USDA Katamari Democracy posted:Electricity  Please make a further selection from the above options Platystemon posted:Philippe Pétain’s entry will be funny because he’s an unalloyed hero at this point. He’s going to get talked way up.           Platystemon posted:The coverage of astronomy so far is weird. No entry for stars? Try the entries “astronomy”, “nebula”, “Edwin Hubble”, and maybe “(The Great Nebula in) Andromeda”. Stars   Astronomy was covered earlier, and there's no entry for Hubble or Andromeda nebula, but here's the general nebula article   "spiral nebula"  Also cluster   RandomPauI posted:What does the book have to say about love?  ChubbyChecker posted:anus, op    Bonus entries!     Rulers of the World! 
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And now, maps of the world in 1935!              
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Since nobody has made a request, I flipped through the A section for whatever got my attention. Aborigines  Actinic Rays (UV)   Adolescence   Adoption   Afghanistan before the brave Mujahideen fighters   Which is followed by Africa      Aircraft Disasters   Alhambra   Alimony  Alpaca  Ambulance   Americanisms   Anemometer  Modern anemometers use pretty much the same design  Antarctic Exploration      Also ant-eater ^^^ Anthracite  Anthrax   Atheism  Agnosticism  And some more illustrations!     
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Holy thread necro Batman! I forgot all about this but I will post new articles asap (I work 50 hours a week)
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