80% of the soldiers shown in the resurrection scene in the 1919 movie "J'Accuse" directed by Abel Gance died shortly after the sequences shot, returning to Verdun. They were real soldiers.
The pillar-biter is a late Gothic carving on the choir screen of St Bavo Church in Haarlem, Netherlands created in the early 16th century.
The figure grips a column and bites into it, his face twisted into a grotesque expression, with a rosary hanging from his belt. In Dutch, a pilaarbijter referred to someone who displayed extreme religious devotion in public while behaving hypocritically in private.
A Southern Netherlandish proverb summed it up bluntly: “He who is a pillar biter in church, shits devils in his own house.” The image served as a moral warning against exaggerated piety without genuine virtue. Though rare, the motif also appears in a few other churches and in Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s 1559 painting called Netherlandish Proverbs.
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1982 tarihli “Toprağın Teri” filminden bir sahneymiş bu. Ben ilk kez görüyorum. 😮
Kadının evin penceresinden kendini gördüğü sahnede korkudan altıma edecektim derken yerden çıkan devasa ellerin evi paramparça ettiği sahnede baygınlık geçirmişim. 😰
In 1944, 14-year-old George Stinney Jr. became the youngest person executed in South Carolina’s history. More than 70 years after his death, a judge overturned his conviction. Learn more: https://t.co/dFcGCmgh2K
Many public restrooms in the U.S. became free thanks to 1970s activism from the Committee to End Pay Toilets in America, a group that fought coin-operated toilets. Membership cost just 25 cents, and members received a newsletter called Free Toilet Paper.
Most public restrooms in the United States are free today thanks in part to the activism of the Committee to End Pay Toilets in America (CEPTIA), founded in 1970.
At the time, an estimated 50,000 coin-operated pay toilets existed across the country, commonly found in places like bus stations, train stations, department stores, and other public buildings. CEPTIA argued that charging people to use a basic necessity was unfair, especially for women who often had fewer alternatives.
Membership cost just 25 cents and included a satirical newsletter called Free Toilet Paper. Although the group had only around 1,500 to 1,800 members, its campaigns and lobbying efforts helped persuade cities and states to eliminate pay toilets. By the early 1980s, they had largely disappeared from the United States.