Every period creates its own designs but the 1960s created them faster and more fervently than at any other time in the history of interior design, creating rule after rule and statement after statement faster than most people at the time could keep up!
Prior to the 1960s, in the period that stretched from the end of the First World War into the Post-War and late 1950s, the accent was on a style known as ‘Modernism’.
The oral contraceptive, or ‘birth control pill’ as nearly everyone called it, appeared at the beginning of the 60s and, at one time or another, has been blamed for all the marvels or ills this decade is supposed to have created.
It is, very simply, a pill that women take to allow them to have sex without the ability to conceive.
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Not only are we used to getting messages from men in space but we also get TV pictures from the International Space Station and even live TV from satellite. However, in 1960 radio communication with space was quite a different story.
Jodrell Bank is a radio telescope built near Manchester in the central UK. The big dish – it’s 250ft in diameter – was built in 1957 and at the time was the largest steerable dish in the world. It became operational in time to catch the very first artificial satellite in space, Sputnik 1, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.
Canada used to use the Union flag (the Union Jack, the flag of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) along with the Canadian Red Ensign (a Union Jack with a shield containing the arms of Canada).
However, in a poll conducted in 1958 many Canadians said they wanted a flag of their own that was quite different from that of any other country. In addition, over half of those who voted in the survey wanted a flag that used a maple leaf design.
In 1960 there occurred an incident that had major repercussions on the world stage and caused enormous embarrassment for America at the expense of a rather gloating Soviet Union.
At the time, the Russians were developing weapons in secret and the Americans were attempting to discover what they were doing. One method they used was to fly fast jets over the country and take photos of the ground below which was then used to guess what was going on.
