Thrown out by G.E. in 1949, this stretchy stuff became a national fad
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Ask me a trivia question - Discussion on Topix  Jun 9, 2009 ... Springfield, MO  #115184 Jun 9, 2009. Thrown out by G.E. in 1949, this stretchy stuff became a national fad. Reply . Report Abuse Judge it!
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Female genital mutilation - Wikipedia  Female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female genital cutting and female circumcision, ... Typically carried out by a traditional circumciser using a blade, FGM is ... In half the countries for which national figures are available, most girls are cut .... in which case the incisions may become uncontrolled and haphazard.
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Free Flashcards about TOYS & GAMES - StudyStack  THROWN OUT BY G.E. IN 1949, THIS STRETCHY STUFF BECAME A NATIONAL FAD, SILLY PUTTY. SAID TO BE A WEAPON IN THE PHILIPPINES, DUNCAN...
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Jeopary Questions page 2096 - SOUTH AMERICA - TriviaBistro.com  TOYS & GAMES: Thrown out by G.E. in 1949, this stretchy stuff became a national fad  STARTS WITH "B": Quality of a Scot's brogue which makes the "R" r-r-r-oll.
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Charles Atlas - Wikipedia  Charles Atlas was the developer of a bodybuilding method and its associated exercise program ... Comic ad from 1949 featuring Charles Atlas ... A bully kicked sand into Siciliano's face at a beach when he was a youth, ... He concluded that lions and tigers became strong by pitting muscle against ..... National Lampoon.
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Wrap it up we'll take it Protection: For centuries there wasn't much ...  May 11, 1997 ... The modern kitchen and its accessories, from aluminum to petrochemicals, had to ... Cut-Rite was a leap in convenience, but aluminum foil carried wrapping to another level. ... In 1947 the company introduced Reynolds Wrap.
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Veicro History - Invention of Velcro - The Great Idea Finder  Jan 12, 2006 ... ... burrs stuck to his clothing. It's amazing no one took advantage of the problem until 1948. George de Mestral, a Swiss engineer, returned from...
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Jerry's big de-junk: Model icon and ex-rocker wife has a clear out ...  May 29, 2008 ... Why Jerry Hall is having a cathartic clearout  and selling the dress she ... later  legally binding in the UK (their union was annulled in 1999). ... before she selected the items that would go to auction (she has kept .... Donating her wedding dress and the other outfits from her wardrobe ..... Singing the blues!
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Chemical & Engineering News: What's That Stuff? Silly Putty  An image immediately came to mind, and I can see it as clearly today as I could in person ... on the newspaper page and then lift it off with the comics' mirror image on the putty. ... at General Electric's New Haven, Conn., laboratory, discovered the material in 1943 in an attempt to make synthetic rubber during World War II.
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Pants, Knickers and Plus Fours - The New York Times  Jan 19, 1997 ... Nobody wears knee pants anymore; we wear shorts, sometimes long shorts (the uniform of guest ... remains an oddism), let us tee off on that leg covering of fashionable golfers, plus fours. These baggy knickerbockers, with four extra inches of material, were popularized by the Prince of Wales in the 1920's.
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Why We Look the Way We Look Now - The Atlantic  The modern style of clothes emerged in the Depression, and so did the focus on the ... Arrive at a party in a fringed flapper dress or a hoop skirt, and you're in costume. ... If you put on the shapeless sack suit of the turn of the century to attend a ... The most-notorious fashion statements of the 1930s were the black shirts and...
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New fad to which the title of the following 1964 song referred # Quiz ...  Jun 29, 2016 ... video icon  This fabulous fad of the 1950s still comes in a plastic egg-shaped container # Quiz # Question. 0:28. Amazing Videos. No views...
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The Origin of Blue Jeans | At the Smithsonian | Smithsonian  Sep 26, 2011 ... Davis soon moved to San Francisco, and wide scale production of riveted ... Business for the company boomed as pants flew off the shelves. ... As seen on the American History Museum's own pair of antique duck ... You do have people wearing them who don't need to wear them, especially young people.
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Listening to Khakis - Malcolm Gladwell  Jul 28, 1997 ... What America's most popular pants tell us about the way guys think. 1. In the fall of 1987, Levi Strauss & Co. began running a series of national ... own a pair of Dockers, and khakis are expected to be as popular as blue jeans by the ... now, that kind of handheld stuff was very fresh when these were made..
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Jeopary Questions page 1378 - THE "LAST" CATEGORY ...  YOU'RE NOT GOING OUT WEARING THAT: Maybe no one told you this whale-bone-stiffened undergarment went out of style around 1907, to women's relief.
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Jeopary Questions page 1909 - NOT A BRITISH PRIME MINISTER ...  MAGAZINES: In the 1980s a well-publicized ban on Playboy occured when this convenience store chain removed it  PLAY "BOY": To refuse to buy a company's...
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The history of flares - in pictures | Fashion | The Guardian  Jan 24, 2015 ... Flared trousers have been around a long time, but only one decade really embraced them: the 1970s. ... It is a misconception to think that all late-60s hippies wore flares. ... Feather cuts, braces, denim and cut-off jeans that look rolled up. ... Chris Redburn and Yan Style, look on your works and despair.
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Use It Up  [2] At the onset of American involvement in World War II the government ... A bit later on due to severe shortages canned goods also joined the list of rationed foods. .... any foodstuffs included in military rations such as Jello gelatin or Hershey bars. ... the beginnings of a baby boom soon precipitated empty grocery shelves.
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Slang: the changing face of cool | Books | The Guardian  2 days ago ... Groovy was the hip new jazz word of the early 1940s, batted around by ... Ageing jazzers were probably choking on their berets listening to ... Indeed, the word hip itself only became hip after its predecessor, ... mobsters, beatniks, con artists  of the first half of the 20th century, the language of outsiders.
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The right trousers | 1843 - 1843 Magazine  What James Bond, Justin Bieber and the guys on your high street choose to wear ... This latest squeeze appeared on menswear's catwalks at the turn of the century ... By 2005, skinny jeans made their debut in the influential British mass-fashion ... that he brings home to the masses just how old tight pants have become.
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The Police - WordPress.com  stands and slips off his boxers. He asks if she ... target men who buy sex and women who sell itor men and women who the ..... the world's oldest profession, hasn't actually been around very long. ..... the United States in the early seventies, sympathetic portraits ... organization, Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics (COYOTE), to.