Roman Colosseum
From A History Of Architecture On The Comparative Method by Sir Fletcher Banister, 1928
History of Russian Aircraft, 1944
Cover of the December 1944 issue of Tekhnika Molodezhi showing the history of Russian Aircraft.
The Killers, 1946
An early noir piece starring Ava Gardner and Burt Lancaster, partly on the 1927 short story of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. besides being Burt’s first role, it was also William Conrad’s first credited role, being on of the killers. Two killers come to the small town of Brentwood and kill “The Swede” (Lancaster), The rest of the film is in flashback mode as life insurance investigator Jim Reardon (Edmond O’Brien), unfolds the story leading up to the Swede’s murder.
Skull Island, 1933
Map showing location of Skull Island, found somewhere off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The map was drawn by a skipper of a Norwegian bark after they rescued the lone survivor from a canoe that was blown out to sea.
Tortured by a Tele-phoney…
… Light up an Old Gold
Old Gold Cigarette ad illustration, 1935 by George Petty
Soviet Assault, 1941
Still delayed along the 2000 mile Eastern Front was the long-expected summer offensive. Soviet airmen, however, were not idle. In repeated air assaults they battered Nazi-held rail centers, like the one in Bryansk, where connecting lines lead north to Smolensk and south to Kharkov. Pictured here is a low-level strafing attack by a flight of twin-engined DB-3A medium bombers swooping down over a Nazi rail point jammed with Axis troops and supplies moving to the front.
Pistols of WW2
Mr. Skygack, Feb 12, 1908
Saw earth-being wielding blunt club ad piece of sharp metal ~~ Was laboriously cleaning away thick crust from ossified giant ~~ No doubt giant died under pleasant conditions judging from reposeful posture of remains ~~ Have noticed numerous similar specimens conspiciously stationed in public places.
International Superstitions, 1888
Dr. Oswald in Drake’s Magazine.
Metempsychosis the wide-spread doctrine of soul migration from animal to human bodies, maybe founded on a veiled paraphrase of the Darwinian hypothrsis; but how are we to account for the most equally international prevalence of the were-wolf superstition? The belief in the wolfish metamorphosis of human beings has been found among tribes of North America aborigines who could not possibly have introduced their folklore from the country of Jacob Grimm, or from the Carpathian high lands, where lycanthropy still furnishes the staple of fireside sagas. Continue reading “International Superstitions, 1888”