Here’s the climate reality: Fire season in Australia has become longer since the 1950s. Bushfires (what the Northern Hemisphere calls wildfires) are also becoming more extreme, especially in southern and eastern parts of the country.
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Microscopic algae arranged on microscope slides from the California Academy of Sciences Diatom Collection. 1950s.

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Illustrations by Andy Warhol from the 1950s.

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"The Bicycle Interior" c1958...Painting by (British,1928-1992)..Born in

English painter who founded the style of art, a movement popular and influential in the late 1950s..

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Based on the old-timey villains from the 40s/50s. Imagine him laughing like Snidely Whiplash and then tying someone up on train tracks (though those dont exist in alola whoops)

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decided to do in the 1950s. The cute pine cone couldnt afford anything big. Ruby finds him adorable.

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Saturday Fixture - Frick and Frack.

Werner Groebli & Hans Mauch were comedy skaters from Switzerland who entertained folk from the 30s to the 50s. Frick’s signature move was the cantilever spread-eagle. Simply side-splitting.

Bravo gentlemen.

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People visiting the today may be surprised to learn what was previously in the space now taken up by the Great Court, including what was there before the Round Reading Room, built in the 1850s.

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I won’t get into details because that would be a spoiler but here’s an image of Chuck in the beginning and some greaser boys from the 1950s.

See the similarities?

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The fact is most teens weren’t greasers and most greasers... were just chill. 10% of greaser gangs were violent in the 1950s.

Now for writing purposes the gang in Heartbreak Hotel is meant to bridge both. They’re just friends that chill but obviously the story has violence.

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A late-medieval cluster brooch with letters spelling 'Amor,' 1450s.

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Alongside our exhibition we also have a gallery filled with seascapes and river views:

This is 'Le Petit Pont' by Charles Meryon

Meryon was a well known French etcher and produced a series of images of Paris in the 1850s.

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Join us tomorrow for a workshop where you will learn how to create your own fashion illustrations like these by Anna Lowe, a Belfast based fashion illustrator who worked in the 1940s & 50s. You will be guided by professional illustrators from
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🦊 A different style and unique I made for a friend. My inspiration was the 80s as I’m feeling it’s really making a comeback in society, which I’m totally all for in the I’m trying to capture lately of the 80s, 60s, and 50s.

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Liscard Road, Liscard, Wallasey, Wirral - 1950s. Photo via Jim Walker on FB.

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Ledra Street, Nicosia, Cyprus in the 1950s. The capital's principal shopping street. https://t.co/AKNis5kvdz

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We're after a glorious bank holiday, but worry not, here's our brilliant to continue that holiday feeling with. Brooklyn, by Colm Tóibín, follows a young Irish immigrant in Brooklyn in the early 50s.

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1959, Hawai'i becomes 50th US state, but 's connection dates to 1898 US annexation of Hawaiian Islands, when responsibility for relations was assigned to Interior. Most Hawaiian artifacts in 's collection, like this pandanus fan, are from 1930-50s.

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