The Red Menace: fascinating vintage ads from the times of Communism and the Cold War.

A Scot Tissue Towels ad. (Photo)

A Wish Tree is an individual tree, usually distinguished by species, position or appearance, which is used as an object of wishes and offerings.
Such trees are identified as possessing a special religious or spiritual value.
By tradition, believers make votive offerings in order to gain from that nature spirit, saint or goddess fulfillment of a wish.
The High Force Waterfall has a coin only wish tree in the grounds of the waterfall.

The Ancient Egyptians kept many animals as household pets, including cats, dogs, monkeys, gazelles, and birds.

Pets were not only present as paintings or models. The mummified bodies of pets have also been found in tombs. A certain Hapymen, buried at Abydos, was so fond of his pet dog that it was mummified and wrapped in linen, and placed at the side of his feet in his coffin