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The Golden Age of Travel Posters
Speed, style and grace — these epitomize the Golden Age of travel in its simplest form.
The 1920’s and 1930’s ushered in an unprecedented era of travel to exotic and romantic destinations. And nowhere was this more clearly expressed than in the travel posters of that time. The Los Angeles […]
Learn to tie a tie with the help of youtube! windsor, half-windsor
Fascinating Wikipedia entry on neckties:
The modern form of the cravat originated in the 1630s. Like most male fashions between the 17th century and World War I, it had a military origin. During the reign of Louis XIII of France, Croatian mercenaries enlisted in […]
A documentary on the American military-industrial complex. Amazingly, the whole thing is up on google. It's about an hour and a half long: Why We Fight
Here's the Eisenhower speech referenced in the film.
The World War II Frank Capra propaganda films from which the above documentary takes its name: Why We Fight (wikipedia information)
pt. 1 - […]
In 1953, the United States Department of Defense was conducting a series of nuclear weapons tests called Operation Upshot-Knothole. During this operation, eleven nuclear devices of varying yields were exploded at the Nevada Test Site, about sixty-five miles north of Las Vegas. Among those atomic explosions was a test called Shot Grable, where the U.S. […]
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