Letters of Note. In April of 1937, Jamaican-born mechanic Canute Frankson left his home in Detroit and travelled to Europe to join the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, a group of approximately 2,800 American volunteers who were keen to offer support in the fight against Franco and his supporters during the Spanish Civil War. Three months after arriving, Frankson wrote the following powerful letter to a friend back home in an effort to explain why he, "a Negro," had chosen to participate in "a war between whites who for centuries have held us in slavery.
" Frankson did return home just over a year later; sadly, he died shortly afterwards in a road traffic accident. As we know, Franco was ultimately victorious. He ruled Spain until his death in 1975. Albacete, Spain July 6, 1937My Dear Friend:I'm sure that by this time you are still waiting for a detailed explanation of what has this international struggle to do with my being here.
Literally Unbelievable. About/FAQ/Contact | Pink Raygun.com. What is Pink Raygun? I’m trying to write this without using the word “diversity.” Damn it. I just used it. Pink Raygun began in February 2007 as a girly place to talk science fiction. Over the years, our audience has grown to include all kinds of geeks from all backgrounds and fandoms.
Pink Raygun offers a platform for geeks, fans, and creators who are traditionally underrepresented in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and comics. Every day at Pink Raygun, you’ll find commentary on what’s current in visual and print media, op-eds addressing issues in media and geekdom, and interviews with the women and men behind the geek stuff we love. I saw a book/movie/tv show/website that could use the Pink Raygun treatment. You can send the URL to submissions@pinkraygun.com. Can I submit my artwork to the Pink Raygun Gallery? Artwork submitted to the gallery should incorporate an image of a pink raygun. Can I send my press release to Pink Raygun? We can’t afford to buy everything out there. Lolpocalypse. Nosdrinker: reblog if aliens are real and you want to skateboard with them unfollowfriday: if you ever feel stupid or weak or powerless, just remember that I, am not. And I am out there, very dangerous and I am looking for you.
Pyrrhiccomedy replied to your post “you’ve gained so much weight lol” I am a mermaid. 02.10. Full List - TIME.com's First Annual Blog Index. NewBlackMan. Top 150 Makers Blog List. There are hundreds of great inspiring and creative blogs to read, but do you ever wonder which blogs everyone else is reading? I do, which is why I have compiled a list of the top 150 design, inspiration, and DIY blogs – I call them all Makers. The blogs are measured and ranked based on 5 criteria (Alexa rank, Compete traffic, Google Pagerank, Google Reader subscribers, Yahoo! Inlinks). Scroll down to the bottom of the list to see specifics on how the list was compiled. This list certainly isn’t perfect.
I tried to scour and dig for the most popular sites out there, but it’s nearly impossible to know about them all. Have fun browsing! Alexa Rank Alexa’s traffic rankings are based on the usage patterns of Alexa Toolbar users and data collected from other, diverse sources over a rolling 3 month period. 1. Want to brag about your rank or give some link love to the Top 150 Makers Blogs list? Echino Grassy Plain Dress « The Sew Convert. The dress that got me interested in Japanese Sewing Books is this purple scarf dress featured on the cover of ‘Les couleurs francaises’. It is also my reward dress for completing the target I set for myself in my Japanese Sewing Book challenge. I used my precious Echino Grassy Plain fabric which I thought was so appropriate for the design.
The fabric was in my untouchable stash but I am glad it has turned into this dress! The dress is Project C from ‘Les couleurs francaises’. It is relatively easy to make with many detailed diagrams. I used the pattern for size M, the shoulders fitted well but it was huge on the sides so I took them in quite a bit. The original design had a tie scarf collar. Here’s the version with scarf which looks similar to the photo in the book. And here I wear it slightly differently. The scarf could also be used to drape a crowl neckline. Or as a head scarf :) I actually like this boho look quite a lot. I love this Echino fabric! Like this: Like Loading...
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Anyone involved in a creative process knows how exhausting it can be, and collaborative, which adds to the fatigue. The ability to be creative is a blessing. J. R. R. Tolkien spoke of “subcreation.” We might say that an unshared creation is not art; it’s only storage. If you’ve ever experienced really good art, you know that it can be, in a way, exhausting. Christian doctrine teaches that God does not need to rest. You have to wonder what the rest of creation did on the seventh day. Jesus said, “Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.”
In this manner, let me suggest that the seventh day is the day of art. There is bad art and there is good art. We worked with 10 category experts to identify 100 voices that matter. Church Of The Geek. A few weeks ago the “collective” (Jen, Seth, and myself) took advantage of one of Gamestop’s extra trade-in bonus weekends to clear out some old games and pick up a brand new Xbox 360 for a very, very cheap price.
And so far we love it. Of course the picture being painted here is far too rosy, so of course a problem must enter into it somewhere. That somewhere is the recently announced price cut for all 360 models. When we picked up our 360 we got the $299 Pro model which came with a 20GB hard drive. The only difference post-price cut is the hard drive, a 60GB drive instead of my 20GB drive. So I contact Microsoft, and all they tell me is “You can return your entire 360 to the retailer where you purchased it.”
The long and the short of this story, so far, is the best I can get is a ~$39 credit. So yeah, I feel slightly ripped off. Update: I never heard back from a supervisor or manager type, and I ended up just taking the contract before the time limit expired. In regards to Mr. Thousand Yard Stares: Ruins and Ghosts of the Battle of Peleliu, 1944 ... Peleliu is a small island that forms part of the nation of Palau in the Pacific. It’s about five hours flying time south of Japan and three hours east of the Philippines. It’s now, like the rest of Palau, beautiful, peaceful and home to more shades of blue in the sea and sky than you or your camera lens would ever have thought possible.
Blue wasn’t always the colour. Between September and November 1944, it was the site of an incredibly fierce battle between US and Japanese armed forces. Peleliu island is about 14 square miles of terrain; during the three months of fighting, the casualty rate worked out at just under 1,000 men killed per square mile of island. Close to 1,800 American servicemen died; of the 11,000 Japanese soldiers defending the island, only 202 were captured alive. The battle was fought over the fact Peleliu had an airfield, and was within range of the Philippines, from where the US planned to eventually launch strikes against the Japanese mainland.
Like this: Mr. Penumbra's Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store > Robin Sloan. This is my first novel, and it grew from a story posted on this very website into a New York Times Best Seller published in more than twenty countries. It’s a tale of books and technology, cryptography and conspiracy, friendship and love. It begins in a mysterious San Francisco bookstore, but quickly reaches out into the wider world and the shadowed past. I talked about the ideas behind the book on NPR’s Morning Edition and had a real-life bibliophile adventure with the New York Times. In Blip Magazine, George Saunders called Penumbra a real tour-de-force, a beautiful fable that is given legs by the author’s bravado use of the real (Google is in there, for instance, the actual campus) to sell us on a shadow world of the unreal and the speculative. Get the book The 24-hour book launch International editions Ajax Penumbra 1969 In concert with the novel’s paperback release, I wrote a short prequel, available as a digital single on the platform of your choice.
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