An early vision of ancient man

And it looks like that ancient man is Homo Erectus.

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Study of an Antique Relief by Johan Tobias Sergel c.1769

Although it is identified as being part of the Pergamon Altar (circa 200 B.C.) I haven't seen this section in photos from the Pergamon Museum.

He's hung like a basket

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SpongeBob SquarePants is.

Soviet Propaganda

A Soviet Union propaganda poster from 1954 : Say NO to vodka!

That's not just an unamerican attitude but an unrussian attitude too.

It didn't seem to work very well. And it is no surprise. Note the complete lack of explanation – only a command : Nyet!

cartoonily accurate

still from the MGM Tex Avery cartoon One Cab's Family

it isn't cartoony exaggeration. It is an observation.


Photograph by Jacques Henri Lartigue of a car in motion. The camera shutter moved from bottom to top so as the shutter moved the car moved forward and a different part of the car was exposed.

A Nazi Corn Palace?

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The Corn Palace of Mitchell, South Dakota in 1905 with a swastika on the front. A Nazi Corn Palace? It does have a swastika on the front but the photo is from 1905. So it is a non-nazi swastika.

The Corn Palace is a building decorated with ears of corn all over the exterior. "WTF" you say? I was there once as a kid and that was my thoughts exactly.

Bodhidharma

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A Japanese figure of Bodhidharma (aka Daruma), a Buddhist mystic, apparently called the The Blue-Eyed Barbarian. He meditated for 9 years and it was said that afterwards the only thing left of him was his head which his disciples would carry around.

If I remember correctly this little sculpture was a netsuke.