Gustav Klimt, Beethovenfries (detail), 1901/02
The theme of the frieze is based on Richard Wagner’s interpretation of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
[Found here.]
[Update– Somehow I lost a day. The .Gif Friday Post will appear next week.]
Category: True Stories
6 June 1944 D-Day
In 1944, and against the odds, General Dwight D. Eisenhower accepted the risk and subsequent bloodshed in order to prevent more of it. His leadership freed France from Nazi Germany occupation and was the beginning of the end of the war in Europe.
General Eisenhower was mocked by the left as a dullard, stupid and ignorant. He wasn’t. Not by a long shot.
[Found in here.]
Hot Links con Huevos y Salchichas
WIN.
These are Maori War Faces (minus one).
Her knees are real and they’re fabulous.
I hear, “Brain Needle.” It’s The McGurk Effect. Oh, and I hear “Yanny.”
If you ever need to fold a 5 dollar bill into something completely awesome, this is how.
Retiree uses a common Microsoft program to create artwork, and it’s NOT MSPaint. He uses MSExcel.
Guess which three countries contribute the most to plastic pollution of the oceans, then click here.
My respect for the late Muhammad Ali just went down a notch or two. Ohio Democrat Congressman Wayne Hays, Sly Stone, an unidentified British Jew and Ali discussed racism on The Mike Douglas Show.
[Top image: That’s Bambi Nicklen’s heel. Story here.]
1930s Socialist Propaganda for a 4 Hour Work Day
Work less, get paid the same wages. Sounds like part time to me. That’s a way for a government administration to doctor the numbers to show unemployment decreasing while reducing the gross income of the work force. I’ll pass.
[Found here.]
4 May 1970 – Remember Kent State
Remember who organized it.
Remember the purpose of the organizers.
Remember who got killed because of it.
Remember that it was exactly what the organizers wanted.
REMEMBER.
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Fareed Flintstone
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) are arguably the most westernized of the muslim nations, however… https://www.worldnomads.com/travel-safety/middle-east/united-arab-emirates/what-you-can-or-cant-do-in-the-united-arab-emirates
Betty and Wilma were allowed to drive, but why did the Flintstonemobile have a steering wheel? BTW, Fred Flintstone ordered the BrontoRibs at a drive-in restaurant, apparently ate them there. He never brought them home, therefore the photo above is historically inaccurate. 😀
[Found here.]
Auto Wash Bowl
Proactive Retributional Hot Links
18 April 2018 was the 75th Anniversary of The Doolittle Raid of 1942, the daring attack on mainland Japan after their surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. A 1983 interview with (then 87 year-old) General “Jimmy” Doolittle can be found here.
Why some doorknobs are knurled.
Zen moment: Just saw a bee with one wing. Every time it tried to fly it ended up on its back, rolled over, crawled for a bit and tried to fly again with the same result. It never gave up, but it made the same mistake over and over. There’s more than two morals in that story.
“Have You Ever Really Seen The Moon?” is a collection of peoples’ reactions to looking through a telescope [via].
A beheaded majestic white swan didn’t bleed, wasn’t killed.
This is clever. Mechanical servos go digital.
Gumball Wars [via].
Ever work on a carpentry project, mis-measure the cut and end up with a short board? The BS100o Board Stretcher is the solution. “Measure once, cut twice.”
The Institute for Centrifugal Research (ICR) is worth the visit. If you’ve seen it before, it’s worth a revisit.
Condoned by Congress, The USS Comfort Carried Captured Camels
In 1855, Congress approved a plan developed by Secretary of War Jefferson Davis to import camels as pack animals for the U.S. Army operating in the American Southwest.
The camels were also considered for use as a long-range mounted force that could drive “hostile Indians out of the country.” The storeship USS Supply was refitted with special hatches, stables, hoists and a “camel car” for the sole purpose of loading and transporting dromedaries.
Once the first herd of camels was obtained in North Africa, Supply [w]as further modified to compensate for the towering humps of the camels by cutting away part of the main deck. The camels were delivered to Texas where their potential was recognized but the plan was never fully implemented due to the advent of the Civil War.
So instead of wasting them, the U.S. Army sold the camels to zoos. TRUE
[Image and story found here. More about the Camel Corps here.]
Fallen Astronaut Memorial
Fallen Astronaut is an aluminum sculpture of an astronaut in a spacesuit which commemorates astronauts who died in the advancement of space exploration. It is currently at Hadley Rille on the Moon, having been placed there by the crew of Apollo 15.
It’s the only art installation on the moon. Fourteen names are listed on the memorial plaque, but three are missing. The deaths of two cosmonauts were unknown to the western world, and one astronaut was accidentally overlooked.
[Found here.]
Tacky Raccoons 