At some point in the history of this building, manufactured blocks became unavailable and Tetris was invented.
[Found in here.]
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Posts Tagged ‘History’
Stonework
Monday, 21 May 20181930s Socialist Propaganda for a 4 Hour Work Day
Wednesday, 9 May 2018
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.]
Auto Wash Bowl
Monday, 23 April 2018
Condoned by Congress, The USS Comfort Carried Captured Camels
Monday, 16 April 2018
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.]
“Bank of America will no longer lend to companies that make ‘military-style’ weapons.”
Wednesday, 11 April 2018
Fallen Astronaut Memorial
Monday, 2 April 2018
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.]
“Farting Against Thunder.”
Thursday, 22 March 2018
In 1783, a political cartoonist could illustrate farting, but was forbidden to say the word. The cartoon above is in reference to The Great Siege of Gibraltar (1779-1783), an attempt by the French and the Spanish to capture Gibraltar from the British who were distracted by the American War for Independence.
“I fart in your general direction!” – Monty Python & the Holy Grail 1975
[Image found here. Related post here. Other potty humor posts here.]
Happy St. Patrick’s Day Saturday Matinee- PSA, Yola Singer, Dervish & The Pogues
Saturday, 17 March 2018St. Patrick’s Day
Try not to puke in front of children.
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Map and Yola song found here. Northern Ireland hadn’t been invented yet.
Dervish is awesome.
What’s St. Patrick’s Day without a tribute to the Pogues? Contrary to popular belief, frontman Shane MacGowan is not dead.
I jumped the 3rd vid to one of my favorites, Young Ned Of The Hill [full concert starts here]. It’s a traditional Irish song about one Éamonn an Chnoic. Legend says he became an outlaw after shooting a tax collector dead during a quarrel over the confiscation of a poor woman’s cow.
Have a great weekend, folks. See you back here soon.
[Related posts here.]
Pumping In The Jet Age
Monday, 19 February 2018
[Found here.]
