G.D. Falksen's Blog, page 1243
October 18, 2012
allcreatures:
The world’s tallest dog, Zeus, drinks from the...
The world’s tallest dog, Zeus, drinks from the kitchen tap in Otsego, Michigan, USA. The Great Dane measures 44 inches from foot to shoulder. Standing on his hind legs, Zeus measures seven foot four.
Picture: Guinness World Records 2013 Book, Kevin Scott Ramos/AP (via Pictures of the day: 14 September 2012 - Telegraph)
aquaticwonder:
161’s Anniversary: Moby Dick!
“There is a wisdom...
“There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness” - Herman Mellvile
Formal dress ca late 1860’s
Formal dress ca late 1860’s
October 17, 2012
Stockings Date: 1865 Culture: French Medium: silk
Stockings Date: 1865 Culture: French Medium: silk
October 16, 2012
jaborwhalky:
Win Exclusive Tickets from Comicmix now!
Do you...
Win Exclusive Tickets from Comicmix now!
Do you want to win tickets to a special sneak preview screening of the steampunk film Tai Chi Zero?
In order to enter, you must be able to do 3 things:
1. Be able to attended the screenings this Wednesday October 17th.
The cities and times for the exclusive preview screenings are
BOSTON – Wednesday, October 17 @ 7 PM
LOS ANGELES – Wednesday, October 17 @ 7:30 PM
PHILADELPHIA - Wednesday, October 17 @ 7:30 PM
2. You must have a working email that you check regularly and that you know how to use.
3. You must be fast as this is first come first served.
If you want to win tickets to this fantastic film all you have to do is email us at Jaborwhalky@gmail.com
In the subject line of the email you must put “I want Tai Chi Zero Tickets”
In the body of that email you must put your full name and what city’s screening you can attended.
BOSTON – Wednesday, October 17 @ 7PM,
LOS ANGELES – Wednesday, October 17 @ 7:30,PM
PHILADELPHIA - Wednesday, October 17 @ 7:30PM
We have limited numbers per screening so this is fist come first serve and we will need your names so we can have them added to the list so you can see this film before anyone else does.
You will be emailed back ASAP if you where one of the lucky ones who jumped on this fast enough and won tickets. All winners will be notified by 1pm(est) Wednesday .
So act fast, email in, and good luck!
About this fantastic film you will get to see before anyone else:
From the creators of Ip Man and Detective Dee, and featuring action directed by the legendary Sammo Hung, Tai Chi Zero is a full on, steampunk-infused, video game influenced kung-fu throw down! In legendary Chen Village, everyone is a martial arts master, using their powerful Chen Style Tai Chi in all aspects of their lives. Lu Chan has arrived to train, but the villagers are forbidden to teach Chen Style to outsiders, and do their best to discourage him by challenging him to a series of fights. Everyone, from strong men to young children, defeats him using their Tai Chi moves. But when a man from the village’s past returns with a frightening steam-powered machine and plans to build a railroad through the village at any costs, the villagers realize they may have no choice but to put their faith in Lu Chan. Who has a secret power of his own.
oldbookillustrations:
B is for Bernhardt, who fails to awaken ...
B is for Bernhardt, who fails to awaken
Much feeling in Bismark, Barabbas, and Bacon.
Oliver Herford, from An alphabet of celebrities, Boston, 1899.
(Source: archive.org)
newyorker:
Fifty years ago today, on October 16, 1962,...
Fifty years ago today, on October 16, 1962, President John Kennedy was shown aerial photographs of offensive Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba. Thus began the Cuban missile crisis and history’s highest-stakes game of chicken.
During the following thirteen days, my grandfather, Paul Nitze, then a high-ranking official in the Defense Department, was a member of ExComm, a small group of men who debated how the United States should respond. The President secretly recorded many of the conversations, but Nitze was the only participant authorized to take notes.
A few years ago, while researching a book about Nitze and his long-time friend and rival George Kennan—“The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan and the History of the Cold War”—I came upon these notes, sitting in a box, behind a boiler, in a building at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, a school which Nitze had helped to found and where he worked when not in government. I quoted from them in the book, and donated them to the Library of Congress as part of a large collection that is now available for viewing. In honor of the anniversary, I’m also putting them all online today. Nitze’s handwriting isn’t great, and my digital photography isn’t either. But they provide a real-time glimpse at decisions made during a moment of terror.
Click-through for more from Nicholas Thompson on JFK and ExComm’s meetings about the Cuban missile crisis, and to see Nitze’s exclusive notes.
Photograph by Cecil Stoughton/White House.
