Ok, but be warned that it’s following the pattern where each podcast episode is even longer than the last. It’s a total of 6 hours, 45 minutes! (Split into two parts)
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It is left as a problem for the student to calculate when a future podcast episode will outlast the very civilization it describes.
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A recent interview with Elian Gonzalez…
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Yes let us never forget what the Germans did 83 years ago today.
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A day that will live in infamy.
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Movie propaganda songs for World War II, like this:
And this:
My personal favorite, for the songs and for the somewhat-progressive tone (yeah I know the backgrounds, one guy looks like an ice-cream man, but still):
And the DANCING is so much better! And Joe Louis! And all the performers were active duty soldiers, in the entire movie (a real fun watch!)
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In “You Can Always Tell a Yank” when he sings about the Constitution and Democracy, I just started crying. Also, do you recognize one of the actors from “Some Like It Hot”?
Did folks really believe in those things at one time, I mean, sincerely? And did it really exist back then (kind of but no?)?
what happened? because some folks are so hypnotized by power and money they want to get rid of it, when in fact it actually can work?
and it’s not going to stop. the right wing has been eroding education as much as they possibly can so kids can’t learn the real history of the usa. and then they grow up to be ignorant while the right wing also paints learned folks as snotty elites (and most of them are, tbh).
i also believe all the performers believed in what they were doing.
oh, and this one, also from TYLS. Has it aged well? Isn’t Ann Sheridan just too hot? Discuss!!
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Only tangentially related, but I think Romani Rose (chairman of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma) is one of the most charismatic people I have ever seen.
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Paris, 1898.
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I just realized that my flat in Zurich was one built during the period that the article is talking about. It was only about 800 ft2 but a very pleasant place to live. It was over the footpath from a big local cematery so, except for the birds in the morning, dead quiet.
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Herbert Bruderer is a retired lecturer in Computer Science at ETH Zurich. He’s been posting a series of articles to the CACM Blog about the history of technology; here’s his latest, which I thought might be of interest:
You can find links to his earlier articles at the Computer History page at CACM.
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Yeah, I usually get maudlin around this particular time.
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We stayed with some friends in Basel-Land about 18(!?) years ago. They had a row house/townhouse that’s now about 100 years old, in a planned neighborhood of townhouses (big backyards behind those homes). I am guessing it was a rural area when the neighborhood was built.
When I drive thru the new developments of townhouses around my area (suburban MD), it’s not like we didn’t already have townhouses around here, but I always think of that Swiss neighborhood…
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Belle schooling folks about “woke” Pearl Harbor stories and what’s in the 14th Amendment:
These are great to share with those who get their history lessons from right-wing media.
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This is what gets me when Trump says he’s going to do some awful thing, and much of the media along with some Republicans, and even Democrats, say “Well come on, that’s just talk. He can’t actually do that. The Constitution doesn’t allow it.” These people need to study more history. This country has done all kinds of things the Constitution didn’t allow, from denying citizenship to Chinese people, interning Japanese Americans in camps, to segregation and even deporting US citizens. Trump can do anything the Supreme Court and other Republicans allow him to do.
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