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POPSHistory-Making Edits, Before Photoshop While some people enjoy adding individuals to their images, others prefer to edit them out – as in the cases of these photographs of Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini respectively. In each of the first three photos there was a political compatriot who, after falling from favor, was removed entirely from the scene and thus erased from a part of history. In the final image, a horse handler was edited out to convey a greater sense of grandeur. Perhaps it is simply selective and subjective, but it seems strangely fitting in some way that most of the edits of of American heroes are additive while those of other infamous world leaders are subtractive – but who knows what other manipulations we have yet to catch.
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POPSWalmart 1 History 0 The most powerful corporation on earth wins another one. (Where is Theodore Roosevelt when we need him the most?)
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POPSBut We Are Always Meeting Ourselves "This is the function of books — we learn how to live even if we weren’t there. Fiction gives us access to a very real history. Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. As for me, with a clean bill of health now, I finally know where my grandfather is buried — happily between the covers of a book, where he sits, smoking and drinking still."
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POPS Remember Honored days in American history. Remember those who fought here. And above all, remember those who gave here “their last full measure of devotion.” April 6, 1862 Battle of Shiloh begins The Civil War explodes in the west as the armies of Union General Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston collide at Shiloh, near Pittsburgh Landing in Tennessee. The Battle of Shiloh became one of the bloodiest engagements of the war, and the level of violence shocked North and South alike. For six months, Yankee troops had been working their way up the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers. Kentucky was firmly in Union hands, and now the Federals controlled much of Tennessee, including the capital at Nashville. Grant scored major victories at Forts Henry and Donelson in February, forcing Johnston to gather the scattered Rebel forces at Corinth in northern Mississippi. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=2161
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POPSSource of Complete Poems, Books and More A Ballad of Two Knights by Sara Teasdale From Helen of Troy and Other Poems Part III Two knights rode forth at early dawn A-seeking maids to wed, Said one, "My lady must be fair, With gold hair on her head." Then spake the other knight-at-arms: "I care not for her face, But she I love must be a dove For purity and grace." And each knight blew upon his horn And went his separate way, And each knight found a lady-love Before the fall of day. But she was brown who should have had The shining yellow hair -- I ween the knights forgot their words Or else they ceased to care. For he who wanted purity Brought home a wanton wild, And when each saw the other knight I ween that each knight smiled. This entry is from Wikisource, the free library of source texts. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)
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POPSRare Lincoln Photograph Found First case of a paparazzi photo found and also probably the first photograph of the White House. The owner sold it to the collector for $50,000!
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POPSThe 7 Creepiest Death Masks From American Political History People used to make wax and plaster casts of people's faces after they died. Family members either kept them as mementos or artists used them to paint portraits down the road. We have photographs now, so these things aren't really used too much. Here are the 7 creepiest death masks from American political history. Enjoy.
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POPSAnomalous Trajectories continues: As long ago as September 1998, however, the same enigmatic forces were also reported to be acting on the Ulysses spacecraft that is currently in a high orbit through the Solar System. In that case Ulysses demonstrated a sunward acceleration when radio signals from Earth bounced off a transponder onboard the solar observatory and indicated a Doppler shift in the frequency of the return transmission. The induced frequency shift was greater than could be affected by any known mechanism and no one in the conventional science community can yet account for it. More space probes are now being added to the mix. After examining telemetry from NEAR-Shoemaker (now resting on the surface of Asteroid Eros), the Galileo mission to Jupiter, Cassini-Huygens (one part each orbiting Saturn and the other resting on the surface of Titan), the Rosetta cometary probe and the MESSENGER mission to Mercury, a similar discrepancy has been detected.
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POPSPresidential Portraits And Their Personal Profiles Know your presidents? Take the Trivia-Quiz Follow the URL to take the entire trivia-quiz. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-president-quiz,0,3188595.triviaquiz Presidential portraits Know your presidents? Brush up in this gallery of portraits http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/blotter/chi-presidents-photogallery,0,6466822.photogallery
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POPSAmerican Civil War - The Finer Times Thefinertimes.com is set create a content rich, ambitious, stylish interface for all averred readers to enjoy, the internal blog style layout will accommodate for readers accustom to the blog environment, while the easy to navigate menu structure allows for pinpoint topic retrieval.
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