Monty Python Communist Quiz sketch

“Well done, Karl — one final question, and then that beautiful non-materialistic lounge suite will be yours…”

Monty Python's Eric Idle asks Karl Marx, Lenin, Che Guevara, and Mao Tse Tung a series of quiz show questions:

Wednesday links

Is Your Washroom Breeding Bolsheviks?

Dan Aykroyd's Fascination with the Paranormal and How It Inspired Ghostbusters.

Trial by Touch was a method of determining guilt in a murder case that was used occasionally in colonial America. 

The Experimental Nuclear Reactor Secretly Built Under the University of Chicago.

These are rather astonishing: Composite Images of Birds in Flight Inspired by an 150-Year-Old Technique.

Scandinavian Airlines has a collection of photographs of elegant in-flight dining from the 1950s.

ICYMI, Monday's links are here, and include the physics of stopping a meteor with one punch, explanations of the 33 possible gender choices on an Australian sex survey, the mystery of why you can't remember being a baby, and a set of journalism bloopers (including "Here's How You Can Lick Doberman's Leg Sores").

Is Your Washroom Breeding Bolsheviks?

Great propaganda - look how mean and grumpy this guy has become because he doesn't have the right brand of paper towels.  He's obviously about to rise up against his employer in particular and capitalism in general.

This, of course, is still going on,...

Anti-Bolshevik poster, 'Europe's Victory is Your Prosperity', 1941

In case the Communists should conquer, our women
would be helpless beneath the boots of the Asiatic Russians

Similar - I don't have a translation:

I don't have a translation for these - please post in the comments if you have one, or can translate:

Lots more here.