Results for tag: history

Barbie’s original design was based on a German adult gag-gift escort doll named Lilli that people would dangle from their car’s rearview mirror.

In World War II, Britain invented the electronic computer. By the 1970s, its computing industry had collapsed—thanks to a labor shortage produced by sexism.

A piece of history I knew nothing about. Britain had a space program after the second world war. It actually succeeded before being mothballed.

It’s still not really talked about.