Woke up in Baracoa on March 16 to a lovely breakfast made by our hosts ( Read more... )

for all of you that hate reading twitter posts
here's something that might make you hate them just a little bit less...

(don't forget, read from bottom to top)
from-historicaltweets.com/


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flying guillotine - lame

bull - bigger than an easy bake oven

Greek Fire: why the byzantines kicked ass.

pyro marines
that just sounds soooo cool!
ancient flame thrower. holy shit. wowowowowoww

shifting to land mines now

torture devices

well right now watching the special on torture
various methods are being tested - unfortunately, not with live humans.

so far:
the rack has been looked at - what actually breaks first?
the next was the tunica molesta - how fast was it ?
the pear... how death would really occur?

burning at the stake. actual causes of death by looking at 3 ( Read more... )

Jim Mitchell Memorial Held in Antioch

ANTIOCH, Calif. - An estimated 300 people gathered at the Higgins Chapel on Thursday to remember pioneering adult filmmaker Jim Mitchell, who died of an apparent heart attack on July 12 at his ranch near Petaluma. 
Mitchell was laid to rest beside his brother and business ( Read more... )

i would have liked to have read his new book on the Korean War.

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Famed journalist Halberstam dies in Menlo Park crash
Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and author David Halberstam was killed this morning in a three-vehicle crash near the Dumbarton Bridge in Menlo Park, the San Mateo County Coroner's Office reported ( Read more... )

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wow ( Read more... )

one of my fave photographers died on Saturday at the age of 60. i have a collection of books that feature her work as well as others. Mostly with her coverage of Vietnam (she was only 21 when she arrived). A year after getting to Vietnam, she was the only journalist to combat jump. She was also captured by the NVA during the Tet Offensive but ( Read more... )