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Obsolete technology Replacement Still used for Bathing machine: No longer required due to changing social standards of morality Hourglass: Clock: Tasks where a fixed amount of time can be measured with a low-tech solution: Exposure time tracker in saunas (where electronics might be damaged by the heat or ultraviolet light); retro kitchen timers, board games, other short-term timers.
A New Orleans resident challenges out-of-towners who had come to protest against the 2017 removal of the Robert E. Lee Monument.The out-of-towners' inability to pronounce "Tchoupitoulas Street" according to the local fashion would be a shibboleth marking them as outsiders.
The United States has produced several coins and banknotes of its dollar which no longer circulate or have been disused. Many of these were removed for specific reasons such as inflation reducing their value, a lack of demand, or being too similar to another denomination.
Laudanum is a tincture of opium containing approximately 10% powdered opium by weight (the equivalent of 1% morphine). [1] Laudanum is prepared by dissolving extracts from the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) in alcohol ().
Obsolescence is the process of becoming antiquated, out of date, old-fashioned, no longer in general use, or no longer useful, or the condition of being in such a state. . When used in a biological sense, it means imperfect or rudimentary when compared with the corresponding part of other organ
Use "Outmoded (legal tender)" if the banknote is still legal tender, but the issuing authority takes them out of circulation regardless of condition (for example, banknotes of the US dollar, where demonetisation is illegal).
Fokine costumed for the role of Lucien d'Hervilly, in Marius Petipa's 1905 production of the ballet Paquita Fokine as the spectre in a 1914 production of the Ballets Russes' Le Spectre de la rose Fokine directing the rehearsals of the ballet Aphrodite in 1919
A post-literate society is a hypothetical society in which multimedia technology has advanced to the point where literacy, the ability to read or write, is no longer necessary or common.