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This essay http://www.tcr.org/tcr/essays/EPrize_Kamikaze.pdf may shed some light on the subject.Wally
A quick question; how do we purchase things in the store?Items shown are interesting and might be worth having if one knew how to make the transaction. Help!Wally
It's amazing how things like that get pushed back and forgotten.
This makes me smile... the Canadians didn't wait as long to relax.Case in point; on my first trip north top a shooting event I met a former Panzer driver (with Rommel) and his shooting buddy an Irishman that flew with the RAF in the Battle of Britian.Hate the game not the player, eh?Wally
Is the PBS show you refer to where a group of history "detectives" tries to hunt down clues to determine something from the past? I think I saw an episode some time ago.
Yes, varies from the lady that had a cannon that she wanted traced; came from England and ended up being one that Gage was looking for at Lexington... to the debunking of a watch that was supposed to have belonged to Doc Holiday. Pretty neat!I agree on your spin on MM... way too interesting to step away from 😮cheers,Wally
Agreed; but also History Detectives on PBS deserves a look.WallyBTW, I voted for Modern Marvels....W
… all considered I think the History Channel special summed it up; when Doc thumbed back his Greener everyone thought one of the cowboys had cocked a pistol and all hell broke looses.Wally
Tom Custer (Geroge Armstrongs little brother) Was a two time Congressional Medal of honor recipient. I wonder if that irked His egomaniacal glory hound of a brother George.
FWIW (from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Custer) "...Custer [Tom] was appointed first lieutenant in the 7th Cavalry in 1866. He was wounded in the Washita campaign of the Indian Wars, in 1868. He later served on Reconstruction duty in South Carolina and participated in the Yellowstone Expedition of 1873 and the Black Hills Expedition of 1874. He was appointed captain in 1875 and given command of Company C of the 7th Cavalry. Custer participated in the arrest of the Lakota Rain-in-the-Face for murder at the trading post at Standing Rock Agency.During the 1876 Little Bighorn campaign of the Black Hills War, he served as aide-de-camp to Lt. Col. George A. Custer and died with his brother. Lt. Henry Harrington actually led Company C during the battle. Younger brother Boston Custer also died in the fighting, as did other Custer relatives and friends. It was widely rumored that Rain-in-the-Face, who had escaped from captivity and was a participant at the Little Bighorn, had cut out Tom Custer's heart as revenge. This tale seems apocryphal. However, Custer's body was badly mutilated post-mortem. His remains were identified by a recognizable tattoo of his initials on his arm.Tom Custer was buried on the battlefield, but exhumed the next year and reburied in Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery. A stone memorial slab marks the place where his body was discovered and initially buried."Wally
This picture is definitely taken out of context and misused on purpose. It's also like the famous picture of the Frenchman crying as the Nazis parade down Paris.....the Frenchman is not crying because the Nazis have overrun his nation; he's crying because he is greeting the Nazis as liberators and is joyful at the prospects of the Third Reich as a new beginning. Vichy France didn't just happen overnight....many collaborated with Germany because they agreed with what they thought Hitler was trying to do.
When I taught photo (and yearbook) I learned that the copy with the picture is awfully important too; without copy the photo is like television with no sound... this is how the yearbook publisher put it in one of their "how to" lessons for the kids. Seems to apply very well here and in the example you mentioned.Wally
Named after a mythical island in a Spanish novel, slipped away from Mexican control (to far out in left field), the Gold Rush, the Compromise of 1850, the movies, haven to the migrants from the Dust Bowl, the aircraft industry of WWII, the land of the fruits and nuts…. Wally
on February 19, 1803, President Jefferson signed an act of Congress that approved Ohio's boundaries and constitution. However, Congress never passed a resolution formally admitting Ohio... ... August 7, 1953... Eisenhower signed an act that officially declared March 1, 1803 the date of Ohio's admittance into the Union.Now if we wanted to get petty here couldnt one make the case that because of this oversight Ohio is the last state to be admitted to the union? I wonder if this had come to light before the civil war if the south would have argued to admit it as a slave state.
While this might have happened the Compromise of 1850 would have been a factor; California comes in as a free state and perhaps Ohio (it could be argued) would have needed to be a slave state to help the balance of representation.Ohio thought should have come in as the 48th state technically... as Alaska and Hawaii came in in 1959.Wally
http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/bourke-white.html; try this for a start, or this one: http://www.photo-seminars.com/Fame/MargaretWhite.htm.She's very much a product of the time and her work is right up there with Dorthea Lange and Ansel Adams.Cheers,Wally
