The next-largest group of 10 trams is the older 200 series from between 1950 and 1954. About half of the remaining cars also date to the 1950s. Their distinctive groaning sound is caused by the ...

The fact that this was a time when all the top guys fought each other makes it a truly special period. There was hardly a compelling match that didn’t get made in the 1950s. Boxing was a major sport ...

Exercise and diet are not the only things to radically change over the last half-century. In the 1950s, a new home cost £2,000 but an office worker's average wage was just £ 14 a week.

Whether you love them or hate them, the color palette surged during the rise of the midcentury modern look in America’s post-war era. Some might say, the use of pastels was even further popularized by ...

came just a few years into commercial air travel becoming a thing. It won Best Picture at the Oscars, but it isn’t one of those exhausting Best Picture winners that takes itself too seriously — it’s a ...

A "great bathing" event to clean one of the largest bronze statues of Kobo Daishi in Japan was held at Imayama Daishi temple in the city of Nobeoka, M Full article Participants head for Pyongyang ...

Chanel! Dior! Givenchy! These brands all dominated the Parisian fashion scene throughout the 1950s. Once the fashion restrictions imposed by World War II cloth rationing were lifted, old styles ...

The 1950s had some major political and world events such as Dwight Eisenhower elected as the 34th President of the United States. Alaska becomes the 49th State and Hawaii becomes the 50th. On the ...

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The 1950s were partly defined by the geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union — better known as the Cold War. The Cold War, and American concerns over the rise of communism ...

A 25-year-old woman who lives in an “untouched” 1950s-era home has opened the doors to her historic space—while revealing why she chose to maintain the property’s original fixtures and ...

Over the two decades from the mid-1950s, the rapid advancement of motorization ... At the time, it was also the terminus for trams. "It was just teeming with people," recalls Yoshihisa Mori ...