Posts by Oliver Creation
On Favouring Traditional Sea-Bathing
The following is an 1882 journal article that was re-posted by the website Historic Archives – Nude Male Swimming. Not least because of beauty of the prose, we gladly re-post it here.
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Historical images of public nudity challenge the perception that the past was more conservative than the present.
Read MoreA Week in Bismarck
A couple of years ago, I was sent by my company to Bismarck, North Dakota for a one week training course. Were it not for the blazing prairie sun, I would have thought myself exiled to the depths of Siberia, but with HBO. I arrived in Bismarck on the weekend, on the last flight of…
Read MoreTwo Hours in Tennessee
On a recent business trip to Charlotte, NC, I was deposited by the National Car Rental shuttle bus to the Emerald Club aisle, where the greeter said “Y’all can take any one of those cars along the fence”. I looked over to see seven white Pontiac Azteks, possibly the ugliest of the American SUVs in…
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