Submitted by doctorbobster t3_zzou0y in mildlyinteresting
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RunDNA t1_j2cuxam wrote
I spit at that photo. I'm a Funk & Wagnalls man until I die.
laptopdragon t1_j2cuc8v wrote
I'm not seeing one.
Cool_Cartographer_39 t1_j2e3v70 wrote
You sould see my 11th Edition Encyclopedia Brittanica.
OSCgal t1_j2eofg7 wrote
Nice! I recognize those spines. My parents had (maybe still have) a 60s edition.
Fondren_Richmond t1_j2dyaac wrote
My parents got us a World Book and a Britannica set, both old enough that the articles about MLK and RFK referenced them in present tense, and the entry about the US government and branches had diagrams with pictures of LBJ post-briefing or beady-eyed Richard Nixon in the center. I would always go into the articles about individual states just to look at the governor's mansions. Most of the pictures were black-and-white, but the article on World War II had a bright-ass color photo of I think maybe the Nuremberg rally, that kinda maybe made the most genocidal Western regime of the big band era look like Cobra Commanders.