Red and white striped, sometimes with a bit of blue, a barber pole twisting next to a small storefront signifies a place where men can get a haircut, a shave and a bit of masculine bonhomie. But this was not always the case. Back in the day, the red and white we associate with go...
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trademark-like symbols and logos started to appear as identifiers for these firms. Local guilds often developed reputations for the quality of their products, and when they did, the names of the towns or regions in which those guilds operated became repositories of goodwill. To maintain that goo...
At the height of the Cold War, one of us served in Cheyenne Mountain, America’s nuclear command center, and witnessed a simulated nuclear attack on the US. Even on the primitive monitors the Air Force had back in 1986, seeing Soviet missile tracks crossing the North Pole and terminating a...
A black-and-white barber pole spinning quietly on downtown Nanchang Road seems quaint next to the dazzling decorations and loud music that advertise salons around the city. Apart from some photos of classic hair models, the window is highlighted by a list of hair-dressers with titles like “...
The JADE experiment was one of five large detector systems taking data at the electron–positron collider PETRA, from 1979 to 1986, at $$e^+e^-$$ anni
Antonia is the matriarch of an extended family: her daughter, child, and partner, her friends, and castoffs who need a home. Each year, a long table is set in the barnyard for the extended family to picnic. See Marleen Gorris. Antonia’s Line (1995). Screenplay by... “Thumbers”...
A Barber 被引量: 0发表: 0年 Polar Wobble and Drift: A Brief History The history of observations of periodic and secular motion of the Earth's rotation pole relative to a geographic frame of reference, and of theoretical att... MG Rochester - Springer Netherlands 被引量: 22发表: 1970年 ...
By the Middle Ages, bloodletting was widely practiced in Europe and barbers served as pseudo-medical providers. The familiar barber pole is a vestige of the profession’s historic association with bloodletting. The shape of a barber pole is similar to the pole customers gripped during a bloodletti...
The thought of a visit to the dentist without anesthetics might cause many people to consider that a raging toothache could take care of itself.