4nuo8.gif (773×481) Primer_timeline.jpg (2791×1745) Winning Your Wings. Winning Your Wings is a 1942 Allied propaganda film of World War II produced by Warner Bros.
Studios for the US Army Air Forces, starring Jimmy Stewart. It was aimed at young men who were thinking about joining the Air Force. Members of the production crew would later form the core of the First Motion Picture Unit, The film opens with a plane landing on a tarmac and a pilot in full flight gear getting out and walking toward the camera. Once he comes near enough the audience realizes that the pilot is Stewart and he begins his narration: "I want to talk to you all today about one of my favorite subjects, the Army Air Forces. " 'Pearl Harbor Day' train ride gives a taste of 1941 - latimes.com.
The view from the San Diego-bound Amtrak Pacific Surfliner on Saturday was Americana 2010.
Morning garage sales, youth soccer games, joggers on the beach and surfers in the ocean all flicked past at 80 mph. Inside it was pure 1941, right down to the 1940s-era first-class lounge car, vintage Navy blue uniforms, Yank magazines and packages of Clove chewing gum. Sixty-nine years after the attack on Hawaii's Pearl Harbor, veterans and their families, railroad buffs and World War II reenactors in period dress took to the rails Saturday to mark Tuesday's anniversary. For passengers on the Pearl Harbor Day Troop Train ride — an annual event organized by a pair of railroad enthusiasts for the last eight years — it was a chance to hear firsthand accounts of the war from the people who fought it.
Along its route from Union Station in Los Angeles to San Diego, veterans and their relatives boarded at stops including Fullerton, Anaheim, San Juan Capistrano and Irvine. Numbers station. A numbers station is a type of shortwave radio station characterized by unusual broadcasts, reading out lists of numbers or incomprehensible morse code messages.[1] The voices are often created by speech synthesis and are transmitted in a wide variety of languages.
The voices are usually female, although sometimes men's or children's voices are used. Some voices are synthesized and created by machines; however, some stations used to have live readers.[2] In June 2003, the United States similarly charged Walter Kendall Myers with conspiracy to spy for Cuba and receiving and decoding messages broadcast from a numbers station operated by the Cuban Intelligence Directorate to further that conspiracy.[10][11] §Suspected origins and use[edit] According to the notes of The Conet Project,[14][15] which has compiled recordings of these transmissions, numbers stations have been reported since World War I.
Numbers stations are also acknowledged for espionage purposes in Robert Wallace and H. The YouTube 'Bed Intruder' Meme: A Perfect Storm of Race, Music, Comedy And Celebrity : All Tech Considered. It all began last week, when reporter Elizabeth Gentle of WAFF-TV in Huntsville, Ala., aired a story about a woman named Kelly Dodson who was almost raped in her bedroom by a home invader.
The video included an interview with her, but it was her brother Antoine Dodson, who interrupted the assault, who stood out in the story. Ryan Gosling Questions "Patriarchy-Dominant Society" Los Angeles Plays Itself - Part 1 / 12. Hand-drawn maps from firefighters, club-hoppers, Boy Scout dads, grandmothers, and Alexander Calder. - By Julia Turner. Last month, I asked Slate readers to send me their hand-drawn maps.
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Mental_floss Blog » NYC’s Isle of the Dead. Most New Yorkers don't even know it's there. Hart Island, near the popular summer spot City Island, is one of the world's largest cemeteries, and the U.S.'s largest potter's field, where the indigent and unidentifiable have been buried en masse since just after the Civil War. Inmates from Riker's Island perform the burials, at a rate of some 2,000 per week; there are more than 800,000 buried here altogether, three-deep in cheap wooden boxes, in long trenches that cover more than half the island.
At one time the island also housed a prison, a boys' workhouse, a Nike Ajax nuclear missile silo, and for four months in 1865, it was a prisoner of war camp used to house captured Confederate Troops, more than 250 of whom died and were buried here. Eyewitness. Laura Ingalls Wilder - A Journey from South Dakota to Missouri, 1894.
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