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WWI Tunnel Fighting
Archaeologists are beginning the most detailed ever study of a Western Front battlefield, an untouched site where 28 British tunnellers lie entombed after dying during brutal underground warfare. For...
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite!
Ladies, if you insist on doing your dry cleaning with gasoline, we strongly urge you to watch this brief film right now. We here at Jim Dandy’s Dry Cleaning want you to value your lives more than the...
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Superstitious Panic
Superstitious In Panic? Hundreds die in earthquakes, yet only the superstitious panic? I wonder if the Superstitious, who must have been a roving band of hooded and robed miscreants casting spells and...
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Now Hiring
Have decades of cover-ups, conspiracies, and tall tales of weather balloons been for naught? Has evidence the government not only knows about, but knowingly hires aliens been right under our noses...
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Design For Dreaming
View the future, as it was envisioned in 1956, with this short film produced for the General Motors Motorama (an auto show put on by GM from 1949 to 1961). A little song and dance, futuristic...
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Second To, Second To None
"Nulli Secundus ll" The Nulli Secundus ll, also known as British Army Dirigible No. 2, was partially built from the remains of the first Nulli Secundus (which is Latin for “second to none”) or British...
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Leatherface, Esq.
This man’s name was Sidway. He was a lawyer. A lawyer with not only skin made of leather (apparently, look close), but a creepy look that befits the profession. It was that creepy look, and the...
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Portrait In Carbon Black
Carbon black factory worker Unlike the mysteriously fractured face of the man below, it’s clear why this man looks like death itself. Carbon black. A substance used mostly in tire production, and...
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A Bit Of Grace
Grace Kelly I came across this photo quite some time ago, and have dragged it around inside an old documents folder (imaginatively titled “Old Documents”) ever since. I’m sure the reason I grabbed it...
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Secret Words, Secret Voices
Last September (2011) an unnamed collector payed over $208,000 at auction for an Enigma machine once used by the German military to encode and decode secret messages. Well, not as secret as they...
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The First Female Military Pilot
The Aviatrix What first caught my eye in this photo, well, it was that hat. Look at that sucker! That’s Eugenie Mikhailovna Shakhovskaya, Princess and first female military pilot who flew for the Czar...
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Nighthawks
Painted by Edward Hopper in 1942, Nighthawks officially hangs at the Art Institute Of Chicago (and unofficially hangs on my computer as my new desktop wallpaper). I’ve always liked the image and find...
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Keep Those Flies Down!
As spring approaches and you prepare to break ground on that new privy, please keep your community in mind…
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One Awesome Horn Section
Orson Welles, Stan Laurel, and Oliver Hardy make a little music on the Fox lot circa 1943. Welles was filming Jane Eyre, and Laurel and Hardy Jitterbugs at the time. [via]
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Busy As A (wartime) Beaver
Not much to add here, just something my Canadian friends might enjoy. It couldn’t be more opposite from the many dark, fear inducing images of other propaganda posters of the time.
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A Boy And His Bomber
A young “cowboy”, the son of a member of the Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California, looks over the Convair built YB-60 during its visit at Edwards from the Fort Worth,...
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Achtung!
Kaiser Wilhelm II (the last German Emperor) visits some troops in the field during World War I. He appears to be chastising one man for replacing his spiked helmet with a fruit bowl. The pointed...
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Don’t Touch That Dial
Another reason to listen to podcasts. Turn off your radios, or suffer the consequences!
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