The smooth, curved lines of bentwood chairs epitomize the timeless elegance linked to the European café style. While we may take this furniture style for granted today, its emergence in the late 19th century represented a revolutionary design advancement and signified an exhilarating shift from the rigid straight lines of earlier eras.
Human memory is enthralling in that it can record experiences, store them away in a deep vault of subconsciousness and hearken back triggered with the right questions and guidance from an oral historian. It is a symbolic role in the construction of a historical memory, actively promoting the need not to forget and developing in different ways and in a variety of settings the symbols and events, that would foster the preservation of the vivid recollection of the lived traumatic experience.
Could this be a bubble off?
In the Museum’s collection is a dry razor that resembles a modern bubble off or fluff shaver.
The Thorens Riviera is a gents’ dry razor manufactured in Switzerland in the 1950s. What makes this razor unique is its clockwork mechanism. The mechanism is wound up by turning the large chrome handle on the back similar to winding up a clock. This means no batteries or electricity is needed to power the shaver. In 1971, a similar razor was on board the Apollo 14 Moon mission.
This article explores the relationship between the Greater Honeyguides and humans, as well as cooperation between these birds and Honey Badgers.
The Common Girdled Lizard (Cordylus vittifer) is a rock-dwelling reptile found in the South African provinces of Free State, North West, Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal, as well as in Eswatini and peripherally in Botswana and Mozambique. These lizards are characterised by a ‘girdle’ of thick protective scales, and the first row of scales behind the head forms a distinctive collar.