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Showing posts with label Odd history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Odd history. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Evil Smurfs

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This started as me reading too quickly.  And without my glasses on.  Someone had written a piece about the lackluster summer movie season an...
Monday, August 21, 2023

Frenchy the Bottle Fiend

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Below is a photo from Deadwood Dakota Territory, date unclear.  It shows a hillside covered in empty bottles.  I first ran across it back in...
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Wednesday, March 30, 2022

The USS Namekagon

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My place up north is near the Namekagon River.  A nice stream I've canoed it on numerous occasions and have helped with fish surveys the...
Friday, February 26, 2021

Time Capsule - Civil Defense

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The basement workshop has needed attention of late.  Lots of legacy robotics stuff, Barbie Jeep parts and suchlike - must go in order to mak...
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Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Heinrich Hertz and the tragedy of German Science

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I learned things in my electronics class.  Not always things in the curriculum...because I kept wandering down interesting side paths.  For ...
Friday, December 14, 2018

Inappropriate Songs of my Youth - Part Two

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Imagine, a President of the United States who actively encourages Body Shaming for overweight children!  Why, such a scoundrel would probabl...
Friday, October 14, 2016

A Tree Shaped Tombstone....for a Tree?

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The cemetery in Wausau Wisconsin makes you work a bit. It is sprawling, has the newer and older monuments all jumbled together, and has some...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2015

The One that Got Away - Gunther Plushchow

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Getting out of a POW camp is not easy.  They tend to be designed to prevent that sort of thing. But it did happen with some regularity.  The...
Monday, September 28, 2015

Pluschow....Gunther Pluschow.

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Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, was a spy of sorts in the Second World War.  But he was pretty much a desk jockey.  His greatest cre...
Monday, March 24, 2014

Naming the Liberty Ships - Part Ten

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Time to say farewell to the Liberty Ships.  A list of their  names  has been a fun little sea voyage into odd corners of history.  In fac...
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Friday, March 21, 2014

Naming the Liberty Ships - Part Nine

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Note: This is part of a series of posts on odd bits of history as memorialized in the names of World War II Liberty Ships.  I am organiz...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Naming the Liberty Ships - Part Eight

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Note: This is part of a series of posts on odd bits of history as memorialized in the names of World War II Liberty Ships.  I am organiz...
Monday, March 17, 2014

Naming the Liberty Ships - Part Seven

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Note: This is part of a series of posts on odd bits of history as memorialized in the names of World War II Liberty Ships.  I am organiz...
Friday, March 14, 2014

Naming the Liberty Ships - Part Six

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Note: This is part of a series of posts on odd bits of history as memorialized in the names of World War II Liberty Ships.  I am organiz...
Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Naming the Liberty Ships - Part Five

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Note: This is part of a series of posts on odd bits of history as memorialized in the names of World War II Liberty Ships.  I am organiz...