cwtch
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I translate Welsh songs into English. Dw i'n cyfieithu caneuon Cymraeg i'r Saesneg. Rugby🏉🏴
Hello peeps! Would love to start sharing some of the Welsh music I have found during my study of the language. Translated this song from Pys Melyn about a summer in love on the beach of Bolmynydd. Check it out if you like! youtu.be/oXv1SbpI3SE?...
Pys Melyn - Bolmynydd (Eng. Subs)
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"Hating is always the same, always senseless." Crossfire, 1947
"Good work, sister: we never figured you could do a man-size job!" - American WW2 Poster. Packer, 1944.
How Nazi was Germany still immediately following the war?🧵 All information taken from “Public Opinion in Semisovereign Germany 1949-1955”
A young mother describes her determination to build a large, happy family despite financial limitations. She shares how she and her husband save money, live simply, and make do with what they have. By Erika Lingner, October, 1933 substack.com/home/post/p-...
Everything for My Children
From the Life of a Young Mother, By Erika Lingner, October, 1933. Translation by The Blackletter Archive.
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St. Thomas Satanic Exorcism plus All The Fried Chicken You Can Eat for .50c 1942
Maybe one of you can explain this to me I can’t fathom having any politicians name or political stance on a shirt outside of right before election time, if you go to the store, you’re bound to see one almost every time
"Caribou Attacked by Wolverine on a Fire-Screen" Lives of Game Animals, Volume 3. 1927. Written and illustrated by Ernest Thompson Seton.
"You just put your lips together and blow" What a romantic scene
Robert Savage, former Yale Football star, opens his veins and kills himself because he could not gain the attention of film starlet Clara Bow. About the suicide, Bow says: “Men do not commit suicide by slashing their wrists, they use pistols.” Her countenance was cold and undisturbed.
A banner announcing the opening of Great Dog Butchery, a canine butchery in Paris, France, 1910
Sorry Timmy, you didn't use Johnson & Johnson products to treat that cut so we had to CUT YOUR ARM OFF
Miss Correct Posture winners, Chicago Chiropractic Convention, May 1956. Contestants were typically judged on beauty and poise, posture, and x-rays to evaluate their spinal structure
In this 1950s ad, tacos are being described as "Mexican Sandwiches "
After Adolf Hitler, a leader of a small extremist political party in Germany, was released from prison in 1924, the New York Times reported he would most likely retire to private life and return to Austria
The Ku Klux Klan gifts a radio to a 107 year old former slave and his wife for Christmas, to show that "The Klan believes in white supremacy and segregation. The Klan also believes in treating Negroes fairly and honestly" 1948
Did not have the #WhiteSox broadcast mentioning Doris Day on my bingo card
Article quoting John Harvey Kellogg (the brother of the cereal magnate WK Kellogg) making a prediction about what babies will look like in 2012.
The sleepy desert town of Las Vegas, Nevada is seeing an unprecedented volume of tourism as up to five cars per day pass through the city now, and sometimes a bus. The population of Las Vegas is only 2,400, and they have no clue how they will accommodate so many visitors. 1926
Stegosaur, who lived in Utah ages ago, is a freak of nature 1912
The University of Notre Dame, Indiana, conducts a poll of 662 male students, asking one question: “Would you marry a girl who drinks?” University officials are alarmed that 357 respondents (53.9%) are willing to have a girl who has let alcohol louch her lips. 1926
The Daily Sentinel predicts that by the year 2000 the average woman will be 6 foot tall 1950
People gather to watch a horse diving act in Pueblo, Colorado. 1905. Horse diving was a big hit in the 19th century, featuring horses (sometimes with a rider) leaping from towers into water pools from as high as 60 feet
Judy Garland and George Murphy doing a variation of the Bellamy salute during the pledge of allegiance, 1940 It was done away with in 1942 for...obvious reasons
