Fiestas Havana, 1937
Travel Poster for Havana Cuba, 1937
Dr. Livingstone, I presume?
A couple of maps showing the routes of Scottish Missionary, David Livingston, as he searched for the source of the Nile river. Because of his explorations he was a popular hero in the late 19th century, and because of his fame, he was influential in ending the East African Arab-Swahili slave trade.
A Midnight Mystery
Both pistols rang out just as Spring-heeled Jack, bounding clean over the flying steed, gripped the halter-rope; both bullets struck home, and he spun round in mid air and fell with a crash.
Spring-Heeled Jack, 1904, issue #9
Thought Earth Hollow, 1923
Godzilla Storyboard, 1954
Storyboard images from the 1954 movie Godzilla.
Shoot the Moon, 1920
The Washington Times, January 25, 1920
If you pointed your cannon straight up toward the moon, or aimed at the moon your rocket, as Professor Goddard is preparing to do, you would hit the moon if your projectile left the earth at a speed equal to six and seventy-seven-hundreths miles per second. This rate of speed would take the projectile up through the earth’s little air cushion, about two hundred and thirty miles thick, and on beyond to a point in space where the earth’s power of gravitation would end and the moon’s power would begin. The projectile would shoot up the first part of the journey, “fall down” the second part, landing on the moon inevitably. The plan is to charge part of Professor Goddard s rocket with some brilliantly inflammable and explosive stuff, aim it at a dark moon, then watch with telescope and see by the flash that the messenger had struck the moon’s surface and exploded. Continue reading “Shoot the Moon, 1920”
Question Posed by Vanity Fair, May, 1922
Skull Rock, 1897
West Superior, Wis.. July 20.—On a steep, rocky bluff overhanging a narrow inlet of the Lake of the Woods, about two and one half miles from the mining village of Rat Portage, Ontario, stands one of the most freakish objects to be found anywhere in the world. It consists of a ledge of solid granite which bears a most grotesque resemblance to a human head, its cavernous mouth partly open, its features distorted with a horrible grin. Rude art has supplemented nature in perfecting the resemblance. This monstrosity is commonly known as “Devil’s head,” but is also called “skull rock.” It is about twenty feet high above the bluff, and about twenty-one feet in width at the widest part. Ears, eyes, and a mouth are plainly visible —the latter appearing in the form of a cave, which extends back in the stone about ten feet, and then, like a veritable throat, shoots down a considerable distance into the hill on which it rests. Continue reading “Skull Rock, 1897”
Ballyhoo, Aug, 1936
