November 13 08
all this remembrance day talk has got me thinking about about some words i wrote on Lille long ago, in july of 2008. it’s a typical digression on the past that ends with my becoming melodramatic (par for course, i know).
i’m too tired to say anything else, except that this this evening i found at [...]
July 17 08
Japanese Internees at Manzanar War Relocation Center,
Owens Valley, California, 1943.
Photograph by Ansel Adams
(Source: Ansel Adams Manzanar Collection, Library of Congress)
[wiki Ansel Adams] [wiki Manzanar WRC]
July 15 08
Poland’s Underground State (Click to enlarge).
[credit: War and Game]
I found this scan of a hierarchical diagram of Poland’s mechanics of government and resistance during the Second World War. Surely, this was designed to assuage Poland’s allies that its resistance was a capable force against Axis powers.
(Note the second row on the right-and side, showing the [...]
July 3 08
Yesterday morning I encountered a rather interesting postcard of showing rue Escuermoise in Lille, France. The scanned resolution is fairly high, so it was fairly easy to note many details in the picture, including many of the shops such as the Taverne du XXième Siècle, Olympia Antiquites, and le Librairie L. Quarre du something. [...]
June 25 08
US Army Enlistment Poster, First World War (Click Image to Enlarge).
Text Reads:
WANTED: HUSKY YOUNG AMERICANS, college or university training desirable, though not essential, to tour to Berlin via France and No Man’s Land. A highly democratic organization in which every man begins at the bottom and works up — every opportunity for advancement. [...]
June 8 08
i’m sitting down, post-work, watching the germany poland game (69th minute, 1-0, Germany). The Pineapples is convinced i should be drinking beer and eating chips because “it just sounds like something some one should do when watching these things.” i’m not entirely certain if she means watching soccer, watching tv, watching a germany-poland [...]
June 6 08
Francisco Goya (1746-1828).
The Third of May, 1808 (El tres de mayo de 1808 en Madrid).
Madrid Spain, c. 1814
(wiki)
June 3 08
Colour(ized?) Photographs of America’s first nuclear tests at the Trinity Site, near Soccorro, New Mexico, on 16 July 1945.
(wiki Trinity Test Site) (wiki Manhattan Project)
June 2 08
Australian Great War Poster Art, c. 1915.
(Authority State Library of Victoria)