Soviet poster, reads “2 + 2 = 5: The arithmetic of an industrial-financial counter-plan, plus enthusiasm of workers!” Circa 1931.
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TWA poster 1950s
The Euthanasia Coaster is a concept for a steel roller coaster designed to kill its passengers. In 2010, it was designed and made into a scale model by Julijonas Urbonas, a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art in London. Urbonas, who has worked at an amusement park, stated that the goal of his concept roller coaster is to take lives “with elegance and euphoria.” It is a ride to the death. The seven loops or “inversions” put the human body under such stress that it causes the brain to be starved of oxygen, as the heart simply cannot push blood against the enormous g-forces. Even if it kills you, it is designed to still be a fun death. An honorable thought, if rather macabre.
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Soviet Trade Dictionary 1956-1961
USS Macon
Hangar One, 1933
LZ-129 Hindenburg over Olympiastadion, Berlin
during the opening ceremonies of the 1936 Summer Olympic Games
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Texas Tower 2 and 4.
The Texas Towers were military radar facilities off the North-East US coast, built in the 1950’s. Tower 4 was destroyed in a storm in 1961, killing all 28 people on board.
