The Civil War went one for a long time, and changed the face of America in doing so. I’ve seen many movies, watched many a mini-series, and read many books on the subject, but it wasn’t until I saw this video that I got a full grasp of the ebb and flow. You hear about [...]
Zippos have been with troops since WWII when they first made themselves felt. Over the years they may of changed but after time they settled into the familiar shape you see today. Here are a a number of zippos photographed (if one person owns all these then he’s sitting on a gold mine) [...]
[...] Jerry Lundegaard had a cunning plan. After reading on Newsvine (a popular Social News Web Site) that Michelle Manhart - an Air Force Drill Sergeant was recently removed from active duty for appearing nude in Playboy — he called the Minnesota Star Tribune with a proposal.
And yesterday, 2,600 Minnesota Guardsmen [...]
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Hussein executed, Iraqi TV stations report
Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has been executed, according to two Arabic language media outlets.
Hussein was hanged before dawn on Saturday in Iraq, at about 6 a.m. (10 p.m. Friday ET), the U.S.-backed Al-Hurra television reported.
[CNN.com]
And good riddance to bad rubbish.
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In 1942, the Gestapo circulated posters offering a reward for the capture of “the woman with a limp. She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies and we must find and destroy her.”
The dangerous woman was Virginia Hall, a Baltimore native working in France for British intelligence, and the limp was the result of [...]
Back in September I wrote about Gnomey a garden troll that was abducted and finding itself dragged around the nation with pictures being sent to it’s owner.
Well in that vein a reader abducted a stuffed pig, Petunia, and sent it to Iraq.
This is great. I and a conspirator are in the middle of a similar [...]
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For so many years, historians and casual observers alike have observed the events of World War II through faded black and white images. What most people do not know is the fact that quite a large portion of the WWII was shot using color film! However, it wasn’t until recently that a lot of [...]
19sep
This blog is intended to provide local news, media and perspective of Thailand Coup Event on 19th September 2006 to the world. The band of authors let all content to be licensed under Public Domain.
If you want to see more about the Thailand Coup from the people’s eyes… this is as good a place [...]
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Color Photos from World War I
World War I…. who would have thought there were original color photos of WWI? This site contains hundreds of photos taken by the French in the last two years of World War One. Consolidated from private collections from numerous places, This truelly a great look into “the War to [...]
History is at times hard to follow, and or understand. The old adage about history being written by the victors can be considered the truth at times. But at the same time, the following… “wwi as a chat log”, which is what I’d consider it… pretty accurately describes in overview what happened in [...]
