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The Curse Of Zhou Bai Den.

Or, masochism for fun and profit.

4 days ago 9 votes
The Sword Is Mightier...

...than the pen. In Ukraine anyway.

a week ago 21 votes
When Ukraine Is Over ...

How will they turn out the lights?

2 weeks ago 30 votes
The Long Run.

The future belongs to them.

3 weeks ago 34 votes
Le Missile passera toujours ... mais qui est prêt à l’admettre ?

Another of my essays in French.

a month ago 33 votes

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The Seven Deadly Sins Under Death’s Dominion by James Ensor, 1904

“…the eternal black night, death under the colourless earth” – James Ensor on his dread of death     Belgian painter and printmaker James Ensor (13 April 1860 – 19 November 1949) etched his Seven Deadly Sins in 1904. To hammer home the message of human foolishness, malice and the farce we construct around ourselves, … Continue reading "The Seven Deadly Sins Under Death’s Dominion by James Ensor, 1904" The post The Seven Deadly Sins Under Death’s Dominion by James Ensor, 1904 appeared first on Flashbak.

13 hours ago 2 votes
My Weekly Reader and Gemini (1965,1966)

As I got through boxes I found a couple of My Weekly Readers that I had not shared before. My Weekly Reader posts seem to be popular for their nostalgia effect and because as ephemera no one saved them from their youth. These particular ones are about the Gemini missions. At the time in elementary school many children saw these as their "space news" since the adult papers were not written at a basic level. So even if these are short articles they bring back a time when America was headed for the moon. Don't you wish you had lived in this neighborhood? Pretty fun to see someone's answers to the quiz. How did you do?

yesterday 4 votes