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From The Washington Times, Washington D.C., September 10, 1922
(Edited for length… Mr Oufle, hosting a party at carnival time, and quite drunk, decides to wear his son’s masquerade costume, which was a combination of a suit of green and gold, intended as a foresters dress; a costume of the time of Francois L, covered with spangles; and last, but not least, a bear-skin suit, so contrived that the wearer of it was covered with fur from head to foot, and looked precisely like a black-bear escaped from a traveling caravan.)
Map of the “Infected District” from the Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY, October 20, 1878
Unfortunately, I was not able to ascertain what had infected the district, though it was probably yellow-fever…
A proposed $2,000,000 mid-ocean city to be established midway between Bordeaux, France and St. Johns, Newfoundland. The outer steel network would act as a breakwater, and the harbor inside would serve as a trans-Atlantic hydroplane station.
A “What If” article titled “Eight Pre-historic Monsters Visit New York” published in the Richmond times-dispatch., February 28, 1915
[…] If the dinosaurs had visited lower Broadway to pay their respects to the Mayor, let us say, It would not have been at all impossible for the corythosaurus to have balanced itself on the steps of the City Hall and from that vantage point to have scratched his chin against the Statue of Justice which adorns the top of the Structure. Continue reading “Dinosaurs Visit NYC, 1915”
Self-moving mechanisms modelled on the lines of gigantic mosquitoes and designed to enable man to conquer Nature in those places where the climate or the formation of the country make it impossible for him to enter or to remain for any length of time.
The outer frame is 48½ feet square, and it stands 33 feet high from the bottom of the spuds to the working deck level. The inner stage is 29½ feet by 40¼ feet. In the body are the engines which, provide its motive power and the quarters for a crew of ten men. The head is nothing more than a huge engine, from which are operated the drills, cutting tools, lifting cranes or whatever it is that is necessary for the work at hand. The machines will be made of steel and aluminum, and are not inordinately heavy. They are run by the Diesel oil machines.
Finally their use as war engines, as terrible as the fanciful “walking tripods” of Mr. Wells’s Martians, is being brought to the attention of the Italian Government.
un-annotated version below
The Times, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 12, 1899
Witch Doctor’s Juju Hut as found in the 1930s
In my attempt to reconstruct the floor plan of Rick’s Café Americain, from the movie Casablanca, I discovered that there were two separate sets in which the scenes were filmed, also there were certain areas that just did not exist because of the way the set was designed (as seen in the photos below), thus making an exact replica impossible. As far as I could tell the gambling hall was just beyond the bar, as this was the direction the police went and Signor Ugarte (Peter Lorre) came from (22:16), though watching the people in the restaurant proper turned after the gunshot (22:14) would make you think it was the opposite direction. I have done my best to fit all the pieces together in the most logical placement. Probably the best overall view of the café was between the 6:45 and 7:05 markers of the film. Continue reading “Rick’s Café Americain, 1942”
