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History Lesson
Posted in Politics & Religion
Tagged cartoons, History, life, People, politics, religion, repeat history
Students at Texas Tech get voting day pop quiz on history and politics
PoliTech went on Texas Tech’s campus to see how much our leaders of tomorrow know about their nation’s history and politics today.
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Posted in Funny Pictures & Videos, Politics & Religion
Tagged college students, dumb people, History, jay walking, politics, texas tech, voting day
This Land Is Mine
A brief history of the land called Israel/Palestine/Canaan/the Levant.
Watch and tell me what you feel.
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Posted in Politics & Religion
Tagged History, Isreal Palestine conflict, Jews, land, Palestinians, war
When you think you’ve really messed up
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October 10, 2013 in Funny Pictures & Videos, Politics & Religion, Random Stuff, Weird News Crazy Videos and Conspiracy
Tagged australians attack themselves, History, life, mistakes, war
Guess what Al Capone’s brother did for work
Al Capone may be known for dealing in illegal booze and organized crime, but his brother Vincent Capone was a cop in Homer, Nebraska. Apparently he was a really good at his job too. His backstory is pretty interesting if you have some time. Read more here.
Books about Al Capone and his family can be found here.
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Posted in Random Stuff
Tagged Al Capone, books about capone, Chicago, crime, fun facts, History, Mafia, Nebraska, Organized crime, prohibition, Richard James Hart, strange facts, the mob
What a national tragedy looks like after 100 years
Reenacting a horrifying death is fun!
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Posted in Funny Pictures & Videos
Tagged games, History, inflatables, Titanic, titanic slide, toys
Famous photographers posing with their famous shots
Wired has a cool collection of famous photogs posing with the pictures that captured history. All are included in a new book called Behind Photographs: Archiving Photographic Legends.
Neil Leifer holds his photo, Ali vs. Liston, which he took on May 25, 1965 in Lewiston, Maine.
Lyle Owerko: "No one knew such a beautiful warm day would serve as the backdrop to one of the most painful and confusing events to the heart of mankind.
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Posted in Random Stuff
Tagged Behind Photographs: Archiving Photographic Legends, books, famous photographers, famous photos, History, photo journalism, Photography, photos, Tim Mantoani
“THIS IS NOT DRILL”
December 7th, 1941, a date which will live in infamy.
Radiogram to military installations.
On December 7, 1941, the U.S. naval base on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, was attacked by Japan. In less than 2 hours, the U.S. Pacific Fleet was devastated, and more than 3,500 Americans were either killed or wounded. The incident triggered a mobilization for war. On December 8, the United States declared war against Japan; on December 11, Germany and Italy declared war against the United States.
This small, short document symbolizes and foreshadows the events and world climate that would define the last half of the twentieth century.
(via National Archives)
Related articles
- Pearl Harbor: In Memory of Those Who Sacrificed All On December 7, 1941 (jroycroft.wordpress.com)
- Datebook: December 7 – A Date Which Will Live In Infamy (thefrontblog.wordpress.com)
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Posted in Politics & Religion, Retro, Weird News Crazy Videos and Conspiracy
Tagged 1941, “THIS IS NOT DRILL”, December 7, Hawaii, History, Japan, Navy, Oahu, Pearl Harbor, United States Pacific Fleet, war, World War II
Who was “The Umbrella Man”?
Willis Slide 1964 The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
Errol Morris makes documentary films. His latest effort only runs 6 minutes and explores a very odd mystery regarding the Kennedy assassination. In the short, Morris interviews Josiah “Tink” Thompson, a former philosophy professor and expert on the JFK assassination. The topic is “The Umbrella Man,” a mysterious character who appears in the Zapruder film of the shooting.
Why is this lone man holding a large black umbrella on a beautiful sunny day? And isn’t it a little suspicious that the shooting starts right as the presidential motorcade passes the mysterious man?
Who was “The Umbrella Man”? Watch the video here.
From Mental Floss.
Related articles
- The Umbrella Man (amanwithaphd.wordpress.com)
- Errol Morris and JFK’s assassination (boingboing.net)
- Watch ‘The Umbrella Man,’ a Short by Errol Morris on the JFK Assassination and the Danger of Jumping to Conclusions (slashfilm.com)
- Is this the ghost of Lee Harvey Oswald?
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Posted in Politics & Religion, Weird News Crazy Videos and Conspiracy
Tagged conspiracy theory, Errol Morris, History, JFK, John F. Kennedy assassination, Kennedy, The Umbrella Man, Umbrella Man, Zapruder film
JFK assassination conspiracy stuff
It amazes me that more and more info is still coming to light regarding the 1963 JFK assassination.
Was it Oswald? Was it the CIA? Did the Warren Commission cover things up? What about the witnesses in the Book Depository? Did the fatal gunshot came from a “grassy knoll” on Dealey Plaza? I don’t have the time and energy to get into it all here, but there is a lot of great new discussion taking place on these very old questions.
Click here to dive in.
Most feel there is more to this story, and I can’t say that I blame them. If it was a slam dunk case with one shooter (Lee Harvey Oswald), then why did the Government decide to seal the assassination records for 75 years (to 2039)?
No wonder conspiracy theories abound.
Related articles
- Errol Morris and JFK’s assassination (boingboing.net)
- Coast To Coast AM – 21.11.2011 – 1/4 – JFK Assassination Special IX (mybetter4you.wordpress.com)
- Tragedy on Tape: 48 Years Later, Reliving the Day of JFK’s Assassination (newsfeed.time.com)
- Is this the ghost of Lee Harvey Oswald captured in pictures?
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Posted in Politics & Religion, Weird News Crazy Videos and Conspiracy
Tagged 1963, Central Intelligence Agency, conspiracy theory, Dealey Plaza, grassy knoll, History, JFK, John F. Kennedy assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald, United States, Victoria Adams, Warren Commission
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