April Sky Map, 1920
Category: History
The M16A1 Rifle
Do me a favor tiger… Do a quick before-operations check on your rifle before we counter attack
WXYZ: Home of the Green Hornet
The Maccabees Building – A $2,500,000 building in the Art Center of Detroit Michigan, dedicated July 23, 1927, was the first important office building in this section. Continue reading “WXYZ: Home of the Green Hornet”
Martin & Osa Johnson
Martin and Osa Johnson got their start filming wildlife documentaries in 1909 with “Fishing with dynamite in the Solomon Islands.” Through the years they produced 25 films, some for the big screen like Congorilla and Borneo,while others were for the lecture halls of academia. The footage shot for these films was obtained from their various expeditions. Their 1st expedition was in 1917 to the South Seas, while their last took them to Borneo in what they described by FOX as a flying safari. Continue reading “Martin & Osa Johnson”
Home of the Cliff Dwellers
Home of the Cliff Dwellers, near the Pueblo of Santa Clara, New Mexico. Here in New Mexico are monuments of an ancient people; mute evidence of a race of long ago.
These mysterious cliff dwellings, like swallows’ nests, mark the faces of of the canyon walls for hundreds of miles in Northern new Mexico and Arizona. The tradition is that the Pueblo Indians came from the North, being driven inch by inch by a fierce foe. At last they reached the plateau of New Mexico, and built permanent fortress homes. With the advent of the Spaniards in 1540 these cliff dwellings even then were the subject of traditions centuries old.
Chief Bacon Rind (1860-1932)
An Osage political leader of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Bacon Rind (Wah-she-hah, Star-That-Travels) was probably born in Kansas and came to present Osage County, Oklahoma, the former Osage Nation, Indian Territory, during the Osage removal from Kansas in the 1870s. He was an Osage tribal councilman, served as assistant chief in 1904–05, and was elected principal chief in 1912. (Oklahoma Historical Society)
October 1926 issue of The American Indian featuring Chief Bacon Rind on the cover
Christ the Redeemer
Consolidated Commodore flying over the construction of the Christ the Redeemer statue, Rio De Janeiro, 1930.
Bethlehem, 1930
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The Tuskegee Airmen, 1941-1946
The Tuskegee program officially formed June 1941 with the 99th Pursuit Squadron at Tuskegee University. A group of Black-American and Caribbean-born pilots were formed into the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the United States Army Air Forces. They 332nd Fighter Group received the nickname of Red Tails after the pilots painted the tails of their P-47s red.