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It's Friday #DIG A #HOLE - What does it all mean? Twitch Stream and find out! Friday Nights @ 5-7pm PST - Photograph of a group of young men digging a hole in Clarkesville, Habersham County, Georgia, 1950. Two young women watch alongside. www.twitch.tv/telephoneanthem
🥓🍳 Just like our favorite breakfast, our phones are essential for keeping us connected and informed one delicious bite and one notification at a time! 📱✨

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December 22, 2025 at 3:12 AM
"The Prelinger Archives preserves ephemeral films that document everyday life — including films extolling suburban family life."
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
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December 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
A nice house, with a yard, and a dog — Suburbs in the National Register of Historic Places.
A nice house, with a yard, and a dog – Suburbs in the National Register of Historic Places
Great River Road – Kit Home (National Archives Identifier 7718976) It’s the American Dream to own a little white house with a picket fence, maybe a dog (or a cat) in the yard, with your 2 and…
text-message.blogs.archives.gov
December 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"Excerpts from FHA Underwriting Manual (1936): 'Neighborhoods or subdivisions located on the edge of a city...need much more in the form of public transportation'"
ontheline.trincoll.edu
December 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The Pioneering 'Levittowner' — The first Levittown began in 1947 as 2,000 rental houses...
realestate.wharton.upenn.edu
December 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Historic Residential Suburbs: source materials include historic maps and atlases, subdivision plats, and developer records.
www.nps.gov
December 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"This Underwriting Manual is issued by the Federal Housing Administration. It contains instructions and regulations governing the procedure to be followed..."
fraser.stlouisfed.org
December 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Streaming Live now: Telephone Anthem Time! Its Balls Time, Dig a Hole and Some Guy, and an interactive new show, Red Hot Branding! www.twitch.tv/telephoneanthem
December 13, 2025 at 12:56 AM
WTF is this guy? Is he truly just #SomeGuy, or is there a problem with that? Which is the 3rd topic we will be exploring on tonight's Twitch Stream, Friday Nights @ 5-7pm PST - Portrait Gallery, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons - www.twitch.tv/telephoneanthem
December 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM
It's Friday #DIG A #HOLE - What does it all mean? Twitch Stream and find out! Friday Nights @ 5-7pm PST - Photograph of a group of young men digging a hole in Clarkesville, Habersham County, Georgia, 1950. Two young women watch alongside. www.twitch.tv/telephoneanthem
December 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The Housing Act of 1949 aims to remedy housing shortages, eliminate substandard housing, and provide decent homes...
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December 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Our newest episode of Absolute Units is here!

Join us and special guests Prof Paddy Bullard (Uni of Reading) and Isabel Hughes (The MERL) as we explore Jane Austen, farming, breeding, and wrong'uns.

Also, not one but two poems get read in this episode!

merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
Absolute Units podcast - The Museum of English Rural Life
Come for the big sheep. Stay for the history of rural England and its people.
merl.reading.ac.uk
December 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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"Earliest evidence of making fire" - full-text view-only version of the Nature paper, using the link below.
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Earliest evidence of making fire
Nature - Baked sediment, heat-shattered artefacts and introduced pyrite in a 400,000-year-old Palaeolithic occupation site in Suffolk, UK provide evidence of intentional fire-making, marking a...
rdcu.be
December 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Suspend belief and imagine if Trotsky was an early adopter of #ChristmasJumperDay

The less embellished original photograph from 1932 or 1933 appears in the 'Papers of Henry Sara (1886-1953), Trotskyist'

mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/SAR/...
December 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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December 10, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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CINE GAZETTE NO.14: DO YOU REMEMBER? (1955)
December 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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📣📣❗❗❗ADVERTISING ANTIQUITY. Mon 12 Jan 2:30pm. Join us for a pop-up exhibition offering a snapshot of the variety of posters held in the APGRD's archive. Speakers from V&A, National Theatre London, Univ. of Hertfordshire & Oxford. All welcome, no booking required. Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles, Oxford
December 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Our newest episode of Absolute Units is here!

Join us and special guests Prof Paddy Bullard (Uni of Reading) and Isabel Hughes (The MERL) as we explore Jane Austen, farming, breeding, and wrong'uns.

Also, not one but two poems get read in this episode!

merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
Absolute Units podcast - The Museum of English Rural Life
Come for the big sheep. Stay for the history of rural England and its people.
merl.reading.ac.uk
December 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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New #OnHistory blog post from IHR Fellow Nilakshi Das discussing the role of memory, storytelling and performance in oral life history interviews.
blog.history.ac.uk/2025/12/all-...
All the World’s a Stage: Performativity in the Life History Interview - On History
Nilakshi Das looks at performativity in the life history interview.
blog.history.ac.uk
December 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Only debauchery like this will save us
The only AI podcast we would launch would be about Artificial Insemination
December 11, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Our regular peek at the returns shelf to see what our museum colleagues have been using recently.

#NaturalHistoryMuseum #ModernCollections #BookSky
December 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary.
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
Important notice: AI-generated archival references
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December 8, 2025 at 1:27 AM
"Shows typical facets of the family life of young couples living in the suburbs."
In The Suburbs : On Film, Inc. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Shows typical facets of the family life of young couples living in the suburbs. Points out how Redbook Magazine, aimed exclusively at young adults, is of value...
archive.org
December 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"TITLE I—FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAY ACT OF 1956"
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December 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"The National Interstate and Defense Highways Act of 1956 established an interstate highway system in the United States."
National Interstate and Defense Highways Act (1956)
EnlargeDownload Link Citation: An act to amend and supplement the Federal-Aid Road Act approved July 11, 1916, to authorize appropriations for continuing the construction of highways; to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide additional rev...
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December 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM