Posted in History, Politics, tagged Texians on May 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Some Hawaiian activists who miss their former monarchy are making a nuisance of themselves.
Let’s just hope they don’t give those Texian holdouts any ideas. Remember the Alamo!
Posted in History, Humor, Politics, tagged Bible Pelosi EarthDay on April 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Speaker Pelosi’s favorite Earth Day Biblical passage has drawn some attention:
Biblical Scholars Challenge Pelosis Scripture Quote — 04/23/2008
I suspect her verse appears right after Ezekiel 25:17, or maybe somewhere before Armaments 2:21.
It’s easy enough to check these things using free online concordances, if accuracy is important to you. Of course there’s really no need to [...]
Posted in Current Affairs, History, Science on April 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I missed this yesterday, but it’s worth reading to prepare for next year’s festivities:
Classical Values :: The Songs Of Distant Earth Days
To paraphrase Glenn Reynolds, environmentalists have predicted 8 of the last 0 planet-ending disasters. Between the man-made industrial ice age, crushing overpopulation, acid rain, lethal oceans, and Venus-like clouds of toxic smog cloaking the [...]
Posted in Current Affairs, History, Politics, tagged communism, fascism, Iraq, obama, war on April 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I mostly agree with this analysis:
The Jawa Report: The Two Wars in Iraq & Mistaken Republican Support for Obama
I also agree with the view that in a broader historical context, all three Iraqi wars (including Desert Storm back in 1991) are really just individual battles in a much longer, larger war against the multinational forces [...]
Posted in History, Science, tagged science sound history technology on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Using modern technology to play back a visual representation of sound that was recorded in 1860. Very clever.
Phonautogram - Thomas Edison - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville - New York Times
Posted in History, Photography, Science, Uncategorized, tagged history NYC photography on March 26, 2008 | No Comments »
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Originally uploaded by CitySkip
From CitySkip. Click the photo to view the whole set of images from New York City Blackout of 1977.
The landline phone system continues working even when the household power is out, of course. Most phones at the time were completely powered by big batteries or generators at the central office. [...]
Posted in History, tagged history WWII Australia navy on March 20, 2008 | No Comments »
An interesting post about the loss of the HMAS Sydney of the Royal Australian Navy during WWII and recent news about the final fate of the ship.
Posted in History, Photography, tagged photography B&W streetphotography 1970s on March 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Here’s some street photography of a different kind. A typical neighborhood in Fort Wayne, Indiana in the bygone years of 1972 and 1973. There are some very nice photos.
McCLELLAN STREET - Digital Journalist
I was born in 1971 in Maryland, quite a ways from Indiana, and grew up in working middle-class neighborhood not far from Baltimore [...]
Posted in History, Video on March 16, 2008 | No Comments »
via AVGeeks
from video.google.com posted with vodpod
Posted in History, Neat Stuff, Photography, tagged 1962, History, Photography, postcards, retro, Seattle, Video on February 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
What this town needs is a monorail! Maybe like this one in Seattle.
Or maybe like this New York model!
Nah, I don’t really want a monorail. This is just an excuse to link to these nifty postcards from the Seattle Worlds Fair 1962
the NY fair of 1964/5 and Montreal’s Expo ‘67 (which for some reason did [...]
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