A few links for Sunday:
A great review of
The Cloud Roads from
Adventures FantasticFrom Rogue Blades Entertainment's Home of Heroics blog:
The Flying Manicurist:
For sheer amazing heroics there are few people who can match this… manicurist. She was also a beauty shop owner, a laundress, a chili cook, a college drop-out and a farm hand.
And for a brief time, from 1921 to her death in 1926, she was "Queen Bess", the first African-American woman pilot and a barnstorming sensation. Bessie Colman was someone who not only had a dream and achieved that dream, but was determined to open a path for others.Google News about the LJ downtime:
Russian bloggers accuse authorities of cyberwar MOSCOW — The LiveJournal blogging site, hugely popular in Russia, on Wednesday fell victim to a major cyber attack that bloggers said appeared an attempt to to silence political discussion ahead of elections.Atlas Obscura:
Telegraph Island – Jazirat al Maqlab and
Tonina
Published on April 10, 2011 13:56