thoughts • images
a pit stop
fascinations • nuisances
Enjoyed speaking with Celeste Headlee on WNYC’s “The Takeaway” this morning about Stuff Every American Should Know. Their Facebook page has a quiz about American food (see below).
If you visit, check out their “person on the street” interviews about American history.
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I love this opener from Ray Bradbury’s Zen and the Art of Writing, one of the most accessible, inspirational and timeless books on writing I’ve ever read. Zoom in and see for yourself.
Thank you, Mr. Bradbury.
Fire!
This photograph shows the USS Nevada providing naval gunfire support for the troops storming Omaha and Utah beaches in Normandy. During the first 3 days of the invasion, the battleship fired 876 rounds of 14-inch and 3,491 rounds of 5-inch ammunition. The ship’s ten 14-inch guns threw 1,800-pound shells that landed as far as 17 miles away.
via DocsTeach
Thanks, Bas Bleu!
One of my favorite rooms anywhere.Amazing to me that it still, in a sense, looks the same.
Catalogue room, the New York Public Library, c. 1910.
YAY for my husband, Joe D’Agnese, and his cover artist Jeroen Ten Berge.
Reblogged from…
I’m already breaking this blog’s #1 rule: review books soley because they have awful covers. The Mesmerist doesn’t have an awful cover, quite the opposite actually. The art looks great, and I’m getting a 100 Bullets vibe from it (check that series out if you miss the reference).
I was…
Happy Groundhog Day!
The Groundhog goes on strike in Clifford Berryman’s “The Ground Hog Up to Date” 02/02/1909
Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and approved by President Abraham Lincoln on February 1, 1865, the 13th Amendment would be ratified by the states on December 6, 1865. It abolished slavery in the United States and provides that “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
