Jim had the TV on when people entered the room today. That could only mean one thing: it was another movie day. "Morning. Today we're going to watch a movie all about how the Founding Fathers sang all the time. It's called 1776 , and it's not really funny the way I normally go for, but come on, a singing ...
... everybody everywhere is conscious they are experiencing History with a big History Channel capital-H. The world itself seems smaller at these ... to each other and to history and to all time. (We ... The pop star made their history decades ago, the death is ... when one of those real, history-pivoting moments happens, 9 times...met papersource ten years ago today. Happy anniversary, baby. What did...
... most striking part for me was running into those Russian soldiers in the countryside. I'd been indoctrinated my movies and news and history lessons on communism into thinking of Russian soldiers as my most feared enemy, the people most likely of any in the world to do... city instead of two halves. I think, though, that I like my memories of it; I feel like I got to see history as it was happening.
... rang twenty-nine times for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald. The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they call "Gitche Gumee." "Superior," they said, "never gives up her dead when the gales of November come early!" I recommend a trip to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point for anyone who would like to see the sometimes deadly history of the Great Lakes.
Instead of asking a stupid question about music and CDs, they should have asked "Is there a person in your life in the military now or a military veteran that you admire or deserves some special recognition?" Just my thought. My father, the Marine veteran who was there when JFK made his "Ask not what your country can do for you" speech, is taking a deserved nap in his living room chair, ...
Twenty years ago, I woke up, turned on the radio, and heard “Berliners continue to celebrate in their no-longer-divided city.” That was a pleasant surprise, in an odd way a fine and memorable birthday present. Google has gone to some trouble to make sure I know that [Bad username: ”bcholmes”] and I also share our birthday with Sesame Street . I’m just old enough that I didn’t learn much from ...
...'s secret weapon and the most striking feature of life in Russia today. That is the secret of spin doctor Surkov's genius: apathy, ... have been reduced to this, but I know the way things stand today. So what is it our state authorities want? Are they suicidal? ... Tsars conjured up? Or are they simply mindless, living for the moment? Today, while they are in power, they have their snouts in the trough...
...are 1930s-specific and some general history with interesting tidbits of information ...: Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade--History Macy’s 1930s Thanksgiving Day ... moved Thanksgiving! ;) 1930s Christmas Photographs Christmas Lights--History Christmas Trees & Decorations--History Santa Claus & Coke --I’ve learned that while Coke didn’t... that the image became the one we know as Santa today.
91 years ago today, peace was declared in Europe. The war to end all wars left an unstable continent that fell in to war again two decades later. ... not been free of pain and strife, dictators and warmongers have little traction there. America and its allies, primarily European, are today at war in Asia, in places outsiders have been at war in recent memory. If we do things right, hopefully Iraq's...
My post yesterday was just my own small, six-year-old view of the Berlin Wall. Today I link you to The Big Picture's photograph retrospective . The most impressive pictures, to me, are the set .... But many of the shots are lovely for their own sake, even if you aren't as taken with the history as I am. Posted at Livejournal and Dreamwidth . Comment here or there. comments currently at DW.
