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Discussions on every day life in the Weimar Republic, pre-anschluss Austria, Third Reich and the occupied territories. Hosted by Vikki. Orok Member Posts:…

CAPTURING THE 1968 PRAGUE INVASION -JOSEF KOUDELKA’S ICONIC PHOTOGRAPHY

On August 21, 1968, the streets of Prague, Czechoslovakia, were engulfed in turmoil. Tanks from the Warsaw Pact rolled through the city, crushing…

The Most Legendary Moments in Second City History

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Ella Fitzgerald – The First Lady of Song

Ella Fitzgerald, known as “The First Lady of Song,” was a revolutionary American jazz singer who performed all over the world. Her signature…

Barbara Pepper – Friends of Albany History

Barbara Pepper was born Marion Pepper in 1915 at the Astor Hotel in the heart of New York’s theatrical section. Her father, David…

Arnold Ziffel

  Arnold Ziffel was the porcine character featured in Green Acres, an American situation comedy that aired on CBS from 1965 to 1971. The show is about a fictional…

10 Intriguing ‘Friends’ Fan Theories

10 Intriguing ‘Friends’ Fan Theories Was it all a dream … or a hallucination? Friends is about twenty-somethings navigating life, love, and work in…

The story of Rin Tin Tin: the four-legged star of Hollywood

(Credits: Far Out / Warner Brothers) Film » Features Sat 7 October 2023 21:45, UK Modern viewers likely won’t be aware of this…

“Blackbird” Revisited: How The Beatles’ Civil Rights Anthem Has Been Inspiring Artists for More Than 50 Years

“Blackbird” Revisited: How The Beatles’ Civil Rights Anthem Has Been Inspiring Artists for More Than 50 Years Beyoncé is the latest in a…

Did Humphrey Bogart Really Hog Joints? (And If Not, Why Do We Say ‘Bogart’?)

Did Humphrey Bogart Really Hog Joints? (And If Not, Why Do We Say ‘Bogart’?) There’s a reason Bogie doesn’t come up too much…

The man who made the castle

William Randolph Hearst at table in his castle. Out in San Simeon, California, the Hearst Castle Preservation Foundation held its annual weekend benefit at…

Alexeyev SM-6 and A-90 Orlyonok Ekranoplans

By William Pearce Rostislav Alexeyev (sometimes spelled Alekeyev) of the Central Hydrofoil Design Bureau (CHDB or Tsentral’noye konstruktorskoye byuro na podvodnykh kryl’yakh /…