Category: Miscellaneous
The Great Karlini
Karlini (1907-1963) Dutch magician (real name Ludwig Trinka) who performed mainly in Berlin prior to WWII. According to information from the late magic collector Christian Fechner, Karlini was twice imprisoned by the Nazis, and may have served as an important member of the French Underground. He eventually retired to a country home in the Netherlands. (magictricks.com)
Sears 1892-2018
Before Walmart and Amazon there was Sears
Happy Birthday Lester Dent!
Lester Dent (1904 – 1959) was a prolific pulp fiction author of numerous stories, best known as the main author of the series of stories about the superhuman character, “Doc Savage.” He is credited with writing 159 books in 16 years during the 1930s and 40s.
He also wrote the invaluable Pulp Paper Master Fiction Plot
The Mummy’s Script
Boris Karloff reading the script between takes on the set of ‘The Mummy’
War of the Zombies, 1965
Gentleman & Gatling-guns, 1893
Stonehenge, Fall Equinox
c. 1930s postcard of Stonehenge
Stonehenge on horizon, Wiltshire, Salisbury Plain
Plan of Stonehenge, 1867
More information and the history of Stonehenge can be found here (Wikipedia)
Long Island Express, Sept 21st, 1938
The “Long Island Express” was the first major hurricane to strike New England since 1869. The storm formed near the coast of Africa in September of the 1938 Atlantic hurricane season, becoming a Category 5 hurricane later making landfall, September 21st on Long Island, as a Category 3 hurricane. The hurricane was estimated to have killed between 200 and 600 people, damaged or destroyed over 57,000 homes, and caused property losses estimated at $306,000,000. Even though its eye was 75 miles east of New York City, the storm knocked out power above 59th Street in Manhattan and in all of the Bronx, and felled at least 100 trees in Central Park. In just six hours, it moved from North Carolina to New England before weakening.
Hollow Earth
Map I reproduced several years ago, don’t remember where the original came from.
High Resolution, Hollow Earth PDF
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