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Jun. 29th, 2013
It's the number of slaves owned by Patrick "Give me liberty or give me death" Henry.
Ballad of the Iron Horse
The biography of a specific steam engine that found itself playing a role in iconic moments in US history.
The biography of a specific steam engine that found itself playing a role in iconic moments in US history.
Air Raid
This is based on a pre-WWII poem whose author correctly predicted that civilian targets would be targeted in the war to come. In the poem, a group of women discount warning that the coming war will see them as targets, at least until the bombs begin falling.
At first I thought MacLeish was just dangerously naive about how war worked before WWII but when I got to the part where he describes women who get raped during invasions as them as the occasional woman getting "rumpled" I decided he was deliberately downplaying the realities of war for dramatic purposes.
This is based on a pre-WWII poem whose author correctly predicted that civilian targets would be targeted in the war to come. In the poem, a group of women discount warning that the coming war will see them as targets, at least until the bombs begin falling.
At first I thought MacLeish was just dangerously naive about how war worked before WWII but when I got to the part where he describes women who get raped during invasions as them as the occasional woman getting "rumpled" I decided he was deliberately downplaying the realities of war for dramatic purposes.
Inspired by one of doc_lemming's posts
Jun. 29th, 2013 01:15 pmA robot villain determined to remain the most advanced entity of its type protects its technological supremacy by becoming a patent troll.
Lists courtesy of Andrew Wheeler
Twelve selections of which I have read three and perhaps part or all of a fourth.
No attempt to avoid spoilers will be made.
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Twelve selections of which I have read three and perhaps part or all of a fourth.
No attempt to avoid spoilers will be made.
( Read more... )
CBS Radio Workshop: The Endless Road
Jun. 29th, 2013 11:46 pmThe Endless Road
A bucolic valley in a nation apparently settled by the Spanish and French has the misfortune of attracting the attention of a would-be do-gooder from American and her rich husband. Soon the valley's marvelous road is used in a way never intended, to connect it to the outside world and soon after that, the weak-willing grasping nags of the valley are demanding goods their husbands cannot afford. What possible step could return life to normal and women to a status about that of a mule?
This has not aged well.
A bucolic valley in a nation apparently settled by the Spanish and French has the misfortune of attracting the attention of a would-be do-gooder from American and her rich husband. Soon the valley's marvelous road is used in a way never intended, to connect it to the outside world and soon after that, the weak-willing grasping nags of the valley are demanding goods their husbands cannot afford. What possible step could return life to normal and women to a status about that of a mule?
This has not aged well.
CBS Radio Workshop: Harmonica Solo
Jun. 29th, 2013 11:52 pmHarmonica Solo
American soldiers in WWII Europe become increasingly stressed, particularly that handful who have survived in battle since the early days of the Allied liberation of Europe. Dueling cases of battle fatigue prove a lethal combination.
American soldiers in WWII Europe become increasingly stressed, particularly that handful who have survived in battle since the early days of the Allied liberation of Europe. Dueling cases of battle fatigue prove a lethal combination.