colors of the past: photos from the 40's

i would love for readers of this blog to see this collection of photos. yes safe to look at. photos from the 40's. for some reason in my mind those decades are all black, gray, and brown. go now!

you should look at url for this library of congress photo

merry (vintage soviet space program) christmas

we found this image post at boingboing.net with this link to the larger collection.

end of days - mayan calendar

so you have read story after story. this suggests that the world did not end. though some may wish it. through all of this talk of calendars and the end of life, many of us never gave any time to learning anything at all about the calendar.

for example, that image; aztec calendar. but give some time to the article where we found the image

these civilizations, now only remnants, had amazing sophistication (in some areas; we can't admire all of that history), an academic acumen.

it may not have been the end, but some of us may have considered: have I spent my time well? am I ready to go?

pearl harbor day

each year, this day arrives. and each year we forget to think on it before the 7th. soon most of America will have only third generation links to this day; our day of infamy.

for the Japanese this was Operation AI. for America it was a numbing surprise, an awful shock. the world had already been at war for 4 years. though there were many opinions for American involvement. we did not enter outright until those 353 Japanese fighters, bombers, and torpedo planes came out of the West that Sunday morning.

2,402 Americans killed and 1,282 wounded

December 8. Now Monday. War on Japan.

it seems every generation the world around will have a defining moment. some of us will have many.

USS Arizona

TSA, history of

we promised a look at the TSA and its history. recent congressional hearings battered the agency.

by ejfox. Learn about data visualization software.

egypt from the beginning

about one hour ago: the presidential palace attacked.

see egypt's story from beginning of recorded history to November 2012 with this profile at BBC.

give yourself the perspective so many of us lack.

how many total years so far spent in social media?

you probably never thought about this. the answer is: 230,060 years

here is something that is 200,000 years old: this underwater ocean grass

bandhani - tie dying for thousands of years

at indianetzone.com perhaps the oldest method of tie dying.

team of rivals - Abraham Lincoln

at biography.com Doris Kearns Goodwin on her book and the film

the civil war returns in Virginia suburb

at the New York Times the Battle of Fredericksburg - archaeologic discovery