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Celebrating the other side's Armada

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

How Americans make friends

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  • 32 older comments, and then…
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Back page ad on Life magazine, Jan ‘44

    www.ebay.co.uk/itm/333912511369

    I think that WW2 really popularised Coke when they promised a Coke for every GI serving abroad by setting up mobile bottling plants

    By the way, I didn’t know we were occupied by any Americans during the Emergency.
  • Suck Diesel said:
    However, not everyone liked it at first taste

    pixels.com/featured/1-spitting-man-mark-kauffman.html?pro...
  • Niall McAuley said:
    suckindeesel could be up North?

    Soldiers of the US Army’s 34th Infantry Division, the “Red Bull” Division, landed in Belfast, Northern Ireland on January 26, 1942.
  • mikeyashworth said:
    One of a series of "services" adverts issued by Coca Cola and by Norman Mills Price (1877 - 1951), an American artist and illustrator.
  • O Mac said:
    mikeyashworth Canadian

Tapiirs. Ostriches and Hippotamuses in Sackville Street

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  • Suck Diesel said:
    Yes, 1808

    www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2025/0711/1495830-elephant-house-du...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    "Stephen Polito (also known as Stephano, Stephani and Stephanus Polito; 1763/64–1814) was a menagerie owner of Italian descent in Georgian England.
    Polito was born in Moltrasio, Italy. He owned a menagerie which he toured around England in the late 18th century. He went into partnership with another menagerist named Miles in 1798, and "Miles and Polito's Menagerie" exhibited at St Bartholomew's Fair in 1799. Polito's menagerie also attended Nottingham Goose Fair in 1807. ... ...

    From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Polito

    Staffordshire pottery flat back mantelpiece ornament, c. 1830 of the Menagerie of the Polito family. V&A Museum
  • John Spooner said:
    Early 1908, a notice with similar wording appeared in Saunders's News-Letter on Tuesday 26 January 1808.

    Mr Pollito had been in Briston in September 1807.

    The adverts in Saunders News-letter continued until 14th May 1808, At some point between 26th January and 4th March the admission price was reduced to "One British Shilling".

    So some time between 26th early January and 4th March 1808.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    There is another one in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
    Via Simon Wilkinson who includes a bit of history -
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Of course, the Zoo didn’t open until 1831, so these were great novelties