Singapore River
Note the date August 1953, and the stamps Singapore Malaya. The reporter is highlighting this tense area of the world.
Singapore River
Paddle Your Own Canoe
Canoe Builder, Kigezi, Uganda
Note – this postcard was posted from Entebbe Uganda and dated 1987(?)
Yours Faithfully
Award winning Collies
Reverse side – Note the neat handwriting, the date June 1930, the British stamps and postmarks, and the British (Sussex) destination. And the sender gave a Surry address also.
Return of Bird of the Week: Bonaparte’s Gull
Very interesting information found here!
Bonaparte’s Gull, named after ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte, not the French emperor, is found across North America, from the northern edge of the boreal forest, where it breeds, to the Gulf of California and Gulf Coast, where it winters. In its leisurely migration, it is often seen across most areas in between. Despite that extensive range, there are no recognized subspecies.
With its black hood in breeding plumage, narrow white eye ring, jet black bill and orange-red legs, it’s not likely to be confused with any other species in North America. It’s behavior is also distinctive: a buoyant, tern-like flight, a bobbing behavior in the water where it frequently dips its bill and head into the water to forage.
Bonaparte’s Gull is odd in that it is the only North…
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THE MAN WHO….
Who knows when or where an idea for a new post will come from? The other day, after watching a movie on TCM, I was about to turn off the TV when a trailer appeared for a coming film titled RIDE, VAQUERO! (1953). The trailer included a scene in which one character speaks of another as “a man who cannot live without power.” My immediate reaction: HOW PERFECTLY THAT MAN DESCRIBES DONALD TRUMP. Then I started to think about how many old movie titles begin with the words THE MAN WHO….and this post began to begin.
One such film is THE MAN WHO BROKE THE BANK AT MONTE CAROL (1935), which film critic Leonard Maltin sums up as “translating a famous [19th century British music hall] title song into the story of a man who calculates to clean out the treasury of a Riviera gambling establishment.” As…
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Tasty
Les Confitures
CHANCE MEETINGS
We had to stop close to the edge of the country road this morning to let a larger vehicle pass. As I was the passenger, I had the opportunity to look at the vegetation for a few moments: fynbos, a patch of bright yellow flowers and a tangle of bush – nothing out of the ordinary. Except … I spied movement within the depth of the foliage: a Southern Boubou was skulking around in the branches. I could hear a boubou calling on the other side of the road … this one remained silent. It scuttled around some more, going ever higher in the bush until it called in response – beautifully clear notes from deep within the bush.
What is remarkable about all this, you may ask. Perhaps nothing other than the fact that when the boubou called, I knew where it was even though I could no longer…
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The Truth and Disinformation, A Case of a False Impression on People’s Minds
A poet, John Lyly, wrote, “The rules of fair play do not apply in love and war.” Does this justify cheating?
April of 1755, at Lexington and Concord, has been named the start of the Revolutionary War. Were their plots and subplots behind trying to influence Great Britain and public opinion? The American way of looking at the situation, led to utilizing information against an enemy during conflict, that few may know of today. Perhaps one should, with the disinformation floating wildly around the world today to better understand that the rules of fair play do not and did not apply. In many years of studying history about conflict, this was one of the most successful information campaigns that succeeded.
“Quero” was a swift schooner. The Provincial Congress commissioned her, under command of John Derby, to with all haste, get to London, undetected. Derby was instructed to keep her cargo…
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Seattle Downtown – Early 1900’s
Looking Up First Avenue from Pioneer Square, Seattle
Reverse side – 1913 postmark, Everett Wash.
Early Days In Harvard Square
Harvard Square,, Cambridge, Mass.
Lovely soft lighting. And note the horse drawn cart on the left of the image. And a dusting of snow.
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