Top Items About 1960s
Type | Title | Teaser | Author | Views | Rating |
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| Trivia | Milton Bradley's Park and Shop | In 1960, Milton Bradley issued a board game called Park and Shop. Its object? "To outsmart the other players by parking... | root | 55 | |
| Anecdotes | John Lennon: MBE | One day in 1969, John Lennon had his chauffeur deliver his MBE [Member of the British Empire] to Buckingham Palace with... | Anonymous | 50 | |
| Anecdotes | Uncle Ho | In the mid-1960s, it became clear to Lyndon B. Johnson that the escalating war in Vietnam threatened to imperil... | Anonymous | 31 | |
| Anecdotes | Russian Hicks | Perhaps unsurprisingly, Nikita Khrushchev (a peasant who worked in the Ukrainian coal mines from the age of fourteen... | Anonymous | 19 | |
| Anecdotes | Come Together | One day in the mid-1960s, legendary LSD pioneer Timothy Leary decided to run for the governorship of California and asked... | Anonymous | 19 | |
| Anecdotes | Mini Skirt | When the mini skirt stormed the ramparts of fashion in the mid-1960s, Coco Chanel was asked whether she approved of... | Anonymous | 15 | |
| Anecdotes | Vietnam Veterans Memorial | Maya Lin`s design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. was not without its critics. Ross Perot called... | Anonymous | 15 | |
| Anecdotes | Woodstock Moment | At Woodstock in 1969, the radical student leader Abbie Hoffman (famed for writing Steal This... | Anonymous | 12 | |
| Anecdotes | Nutty Artist | Expressionist artist Bruce Nauman began exhibiting internationally soon after graduating from the University of... | Anonymous | 11 | |
| Anecdotes | Alan King: Name-Dropper | "Alan knew everybody," Billy Crystal once recalled of the great comedian Alan King. "He was the greatest name-dropper in... | Anonymous | 11 |
