Imagine what a world it would be if the members of my father's generation didn't go off to war unquestionably like they did...
Photo taken on June 6 (or 7), 1944, at Baudienville, a small hamlet 2.5 km NE from Sainte-Mère-Église, showing a smiling Monsieur Jacques Philippe standing at the door of his establishment with his little daughter and the customers he was waiting for for the last 4 years.
It is said that the soldiers were from the 4th US Infantry Division which had disembarked at Utah Beach early that morning, but author Winston G. Ramsey, having studied the negatives with the shoulder patches blacked out, states in his work “D-Day Then and Now Vol.2” that one of the shoulder patches is still partially visible and that these men were actually from the 90th US Infantry Division. Most possibly elements of the 1st or 3rd Btn/359th IR that were kept in reserve near the village on D+1. These two battalions were attached to the 4th ID as reinforcements from the 1st to the 11th of June 1944.
Today the café is restored and works as a museum.
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Sweet Audrey. Nice shot.
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This guy (some guy, okay?) wrote this book about the cool tourist shit you could do in London.
They never proofed or vetted what he reported, and he had inadvertently put a wrong address in the 'Evening's Entertainment' section.
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This is the inside of the 'International Church of Cannabis' in Denver, CO where members are known as Elevationists. I'd call 'em stoners with too much money.
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Let's be very clear here. The city didn't lose anything. The cops quit because the Mayor and the City Council are a bunch of fairy-dust snorting asswipe wannabe rainbow-flag waving phony liberal hippie jerkoffs who wouldn't let them do their jobs.
Thankfully, one of those cops that left there came here to Lady Lake and hopped on our force. Good for him - and us - and fuck Asheville. Too many fruits and nuts up there for my tastes.
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"We had a bad break tactically because the German 352nd Division was on a counter-attack training exercise at Omaha. So instead of a fortress battalion - you know, with kind of second-rate troops - we had a whole damned infantry division in front of us. We hit the sand and tried to advance a bit, but there was a large German bunker in front of us, and its machine gun fire hit us every time we tried to move."
- Capt Edward McGregor, US 1st Infantry Div
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The guys at Twisted Hillbilly come through again.
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Omaha Beach, during the afternoon of June 6, 1944. A captain and medics treat a wounded soldier of the 1st US Infantry Division on the Fox Green area of Omaha Beach, in front of Colleville.
He is being given a plasma transfusion and wrapped in an army blanket to prevent hypothermia, while his head is supported on an inflatable life jacket.
... How embarrassed ya think he was fucking up a simple dunk?
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This is SO fucked up I don't even wanna comment on it,
except to say that he is a fucking embarrassment.
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I doubt you could really teach a dog how to do that. It would havta figure it out for itself, don'tcha think?
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Recording an episode of “Gang Busters”, true crime radio show
in a studio in New York City, ca. 1930s
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How to “opt-out” of Amazon internet sharing - for those who are not so confident in Amazon’s Sidewalk feature due to privacy concerns, there is a way to “opt-out” on several devices.
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One of my 'bucket list' items:
The Venetian Carnival.
The Venetian Carnival.
Atelier Longhi is named after Venetian painter Pietro Longhi, a 1700s’ artist especially renowned for his paintings of daily life, with constant references to the world of theater.
Tailor Francesco Briggi opened the Atelier in 1994 following his passion for history and costumes, and started creating precious, historical unique clothes and accessories. His pieces are inspired by works by Longhi as well as by other illustrious “muses” like Michelangelo, Raphael, William Hogarth, François Boucher and other great artists of the past, which Brigi loves and has studied for years.
The Atelier is an official partner of the Venice Carnival and an absolute point of reference for many of the companies having to do with historical re-enactments, such as Calcio Storico Fiorentino, the Venice Historical Regatta, the Noale Palio and the Festival of the Duke in Urbino.
There are also a number of museums, cinema and theater production companies, costume designers and collectors from the whole world who count on the Venetian workshop and its precision, leading to perfect reproductions that stem from careful analysis of historical paintings and original documents.
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A 140 million year old dinosaur femur found in France.
They musta been some seriously big frikkin' animals.
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Why are these motherfuckers allowed to exist in a so-called civilized society? These are not 'protests' in any way, shape or form. They're militant actions taken by provocateurs hell-bent on fucking with the rule of law.
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Microsoft sucking up to the ChiComs somehow?
I find that hard to believe...
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