Paratroopers jump with issued weapons, liked or despised. During D-Day U.S. troopers jumped with everything from the full-sized M1 Garand to the M1 Carbine and Thompson SMG. The German Fallschirmjager leaped into combat with K98k rifles, FG42 and MP40.
But what weapons armed the Imperial Japanese paratroopers that jumped into battle over Asia? Like many nations, Japanese small arms designers modified existing weapons to create the TERA series. TERA weapons were a class of… Continue
Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Perfect Husband Originally broadcast on May 2, 1955
The adventures of master detective Sherlock Holmes as he and his assistant, Dr. Watson, (and somewhat reluctantly, the bumbling Inspector Lestrade) battle criminals in London.
In this episode: A man tells his wife that he is a killer who has murdered his six previous wives, and notifies her that she has one… Continue
Added by Tome Wilson on June 30, 2010 at 11:00am —
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Welcome to Two Fisted Tuesdays, Dieselpunks' weekly beat on the mean streets.
Starring Gerald Mohr and starting with the famous lines, "Get this and get it straight! Crime is a sucker's road and those who travel it wind up in the gutter, the prison or the grave." The Adventures of Philip Marlowe runs about 25 minutes without commercials. You can listen to this blast from the past in MP3 format for free at the link below.…
Not too sure if this will be announced on Radio City, so I just wanted to let you, guys, know that, like every year, I'll be away from my computer and any Internet connection for Summer season. See you in Fall... !
On Miskatonic Mondays, we celebrate the "weird" fiction of HP Lovecraft and the genre of otherworldly horror that it spawned.
This week, we continue our look into the macabre world of Herbert West, The Reanimator." Written by Lovecraft between Halloween 1921 and June 1922, Herbert West: Reanimator is a six part serial originally published in Home Brew magazine.
Normally when we think of Japan during the 1920s - 1940s we think of the rise of fascism and their involvement in WWII. But it's much more complicated than that, which I plan to make a topic of my blog soon. In the meantime I thought others would find this interesting. It's a site I learned about on Steampunk forum, which has images from the Taisho Period (1912 - 1926) and the… Continue
The Crosley was an automobile manufactured by the Crosley Corporation and later by Crosley Motors Incorporated in the United States from 1939 to 1952.
Industrialist Powel Crosley, Jr., of Cincinnati, Ohio, owner of Crosley Broadcasting Corporation and the Cincinnati Reds baseball team, had ambitious plans to build a subcompact car and developed assembly plants at… Continue
A friend of mine sent this story to me today.. and I felt it definitely deserved a place here.
-Taken from the Chicago Tribune.
It's one of the most iconic images to emerge from World War II.
Life magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt's photograph of an anonymous young sailor in a dark-blue uniform dipping a white-uniformed nurse backward while giving her a long kiss in the…
An illustration for a piece of music produced for Peppermill Records by Terminal 11 : "We're Just Taking It Back". The concept album, titled 2999, imagines what music is, as this third millenium comes to its ending. The artist, Terminal 11, describes this track as follows :
"I imagined by 2999 producers turn to outdated equipment from…
Even when prowling the courtrooms of Boston during the late 1930s, Marine Corps Reserve officer Melvin Johnson Jr. had an idea to create a rifle that was easy to manufacture, but more importantly accurate and deadly in the hands of a Marine rifleman.
Johnson scrapped together pieces of other firearms to create the first prototypes of the Johnson rifle system. In a day when a rifle was purpose built, Johnson cobbled together a patented idea that created not only a… Continue
Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Baker Street Nursemaids Originally broadcast on April 25, 1955
The adventures of master detective Sherlock Holmes as he and his assistant, Dr. Watson, (and somewhat reluctantly, the bumbling Inspector Lestrade) battle criminals in London.
In this episode: A baby is left on Holmes' and Watson's doorstep and turns out to be the son of a missing French scientist.… Continue
Added by Tome Wilson on June 23, 2010 at 11:00am —
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Welcome to Two Fisted Tuesdays, Dieselpunks' weekly beat on the mean streets.
Starring Gerald Mohr and starting with the famous lines, "Get this and get it straight! Crime is a sucker's road and those who travel it wind up in the gutter, the prison or the grave." The Adventures of Philip Marlowe runs about 25 minutes without commercials. You can listen to this blast from the past in MP3 format for free at the link below.…
A whole story is attached to this picture. I will gladly share it with anyone who can afford to waste five minutes.
A loooooong time ago, one night sometime in the seventies, when Disco era was at its peak and dancing all night long at Le Palace, the Parisian equivalent of the Studio 54 in NYC, was the thing to do, I had left the party shortly before dawn,…
On Miskatonic Mondays, we celebrate the "weird" fiction of HP Lovecraft and the genre of otherworldly horror that it spawned.
This week, we continue our look into the macabre world of Herbert West, The Reanimator." Written by Lovecraft between Halloween 1921 and June 1922, Herbert West: Reanimator is a six part serial originally published in Home Brew magazine.
... or, like we say in French, futur antérieur. Meaning "coming first, before, prior to..." Don't you like this idea... the future set before the past ?? Well, you also call it future perfect, don't you ? I like the idea of some ideal future, too, I must…
We covered this a while ago while the spaceship was still in production for Burning Man 2009.
Now that it's complete, we have more details and an actual video of The Raygun Gothic Rocketship!
According to their website "The Raygun Gothic Rocketship is a rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was, a critical kitsch somewhere between The Moons of Mongo &… Continue
The late morning air clung to me like a hot, wet blanket. A bastard of a late May even by Virginia standards, the humid, poisonous air clawed its way harshly down the nasal passages. The line stretched around the block. A thousand people, queued up in the bastard sun, sweating beneath layers of black or dark grey wool blend, awaited a chance to work for the Marine Corps at Quantico, VA. It was the first gauntlet on an arduous hiring process of the type only the government can…
Hispano-Suiza was a Spanish luxury automotive and engineering firm, best known for their cars, engines and weapons designs.
After World War I Hispano-Suiza returned to automobile engine design and, in 1919, introduced the H6, earning them a reputation even greater than that of Rolls-Royce in England. Indeed, Rolls-Royce featured many Hispano-Suiza patented features, under licence. Most notably, Rolls-Royce used for many years the famed… Continue