I've just started a book called The War and the Bagdad Railway by Morris Jastrow, Jr. It is, of course, about the First World War. One of the reasons I was so delighted to find this book in the first place was when it was written. The publication date is 1917, the edition I have is the third and was issued in April 1918 ( Read more... )

The 90th anniversary of the first transatlantic zeppelin flight was July 2nd.

It was only 42 years ago today that people of different races weren't allowed to marry in much of the USA. Take heart, justice does prevail eventually and eventually all of this kind of discrimination will be looked at as craziness from an earlier, more ignorant era.

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This is actually a video from Mike Nesmith's "Elephant Parts". This was a "video album" and was an effort to make use of the video tape medium. The album consisted of music videos and comedy bits. I recommend it. Watch and enjoy.



here if above link doesn't give video

Sadly not in English
But here's the article about it!

When I was a kid I had a Cab Calloway album with Jungle King on it. I also had a very, very scratchy Chuck Berry album with Jo Jo Gunne. My dad had the Oscar Brown album Sin & Soul with Signifyin' Monkey on it. The Chuck Berry album was the one I listened to last and I realized at that time, I suppose I was 8 or 9, that all three of these songs ( Read more... )

emilytheslayer found this

Now... where can I store it until I get a house...

This is on Salon, so you may have to watch an ad or something.

However, with the stimulus package in the news, I thought people might like a slideshow of some fruits of the last big stimulus package.

Stimulus works to fix problems like the ones we have today.

What did you do at 11:11 this morning?