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Power to the women today on the anniversary of the 19th amendment — PHOTOS: World War II: Women in the Fight
Pictured Above: An ATS Servicewoman at a British Anti-Aircraft Facility — The women who volunteer for the U.K.’s Auxiliary Territorial Services (ATS) are not allowed to fight in World War II, but they do nearly every other job, like this woman at an anti-aircraft emplacement in Britain.
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Our Guest Editor this week? — Oscar the Grouch.
From his amazingly roomy trash can — “cold and dank and miserable, the way real and total Grouches love it” — Oscar the Grouch has spent 40 years keeping watch on Sesame Street, where monsters and Muppets and sometimes a movie star or two have been known to stroll. So how have Sesame Street’s favorite visitors — children — changed over the years? “Well, [back then] they didn’t have cell phones attached to their ears,” Oscar says. He has a cell phone too, by the way, “but it weighs 7 pounds — it’s an old one Jim Henson threw away.” In any case, he used it to call LIFE and share some Grouch-y memories from the past four decades.
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Our Guest Editor this week? — Oscar the Grouch.
From his amazingly roomy trash can — “cold and dank and miserable, the way real and total Grouches love it” — Oscar the Grouch has spent 40 years keeping watch on Sesame Street, where monsters and Muppets and sometimes a movie star or two have been known to stroll. So how have Sesame Street’s favorite visitors — children — changed over the years? “Well, [back then] they didn’t have cell phones attached to their ears,” Oscar says. He has a cell phone too, by the way, “but it weighs 7 pounds — it’s an old one Jim Henson threw away.” In any case, he used it to call LIFE and share some Grouch-y memories from the past four decades.
Hear his stories here.
Celebrating V-J Day
The surrender of Japan during World War II was announced on August 14, 1945, effectively ending the war, although the official Instrument of Surrender would not be signed until September 2, 1945. Germany had surrendered 3 months earlier on May 7, 1945.
- “American servicemen and women gather in front of ’Rainbow Corner’ Red Cross club in Paris to celebrate the unconditional surrender of the Japanese.” August 15, 1945, McNulty, Photographer, (111-SC-210241)
- “Enlisted men aboard the U.S.S. Ticonderoga (CV-14) hear the news of Japan’s surrender.”, 08/14/1945
- New York City celebrating the surrender of Japan. They threw anything and kissed anybody in Times Square., 08/14/1945
- V-J Day in New York City. Crowds gather in Times Square to celebrate the surrender of Japan., 08/15/1945
- GI’s at the Rainbow Corner Red Cross Club in Paris, France, whoop it up after buying the special edition of the Paris Post, which carried the banner headline, “JAPS QUIT.”
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Teabagging Republican Corn Dogger
Someday, someone will manage to take a flattering picture of her.
President Thomas Jefferson, letter to the Danbury, CT Baptist Association, 1802.
Given the sentiments expressed by many of the Republican candidates (I see you, Herman Cain), and at Rick Perry’s rally over the weekend, this seems like a useful reminder of what at least one of the Framers actually thought about the relationship between church and state. It helps to remember that Baptists were considered outliers and extremists at the time, and the Danbury Association’s members were worried they would be persecuted.
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]Fresh Prep
The fresh prep program tries to help students pass the history Regents tests by setting historical facts to rap.
-The New York Times
Wax figure thingies.
George Washington was probably handsome when he was young. That is before he lost his teeth and snapped some from his slaves’ mouths to create dentures.
