Tag: war
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Little Nemo in Slumberland
“A weekly fantasy adventure [ by Winsor McCay], Little Nemo in Slumberland featured the young Nemo (“No one” in Latin) who dreamed himself into wondrous predicaments[1] from which he awoke in bed in the last panel.[2] The first episode[a] begins with a command from King Morpheus of Slumberland to a minion to collect Nemo.[3] Nemo…
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Don’t Believe The Hype
“One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.” Henry James Hmm. The powers that be talk about internet security (control) and then there’s a bunch of cyber attacks . . . Why are be-headings worse than the more common gun violence in…
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“I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution of the world.” Amos Oz
I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed. Anais Nin
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Civil War Surgery/War Is Hell
LINK TO: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2021188/Civil-war-surgery-The-grisly-photos-wounded-soldiers-treated.html
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” . . .they were apt to bulge below the waist in front; for, poor dears, they were but human after all, and they had to expand somewhere.”
Learn more about underwear links: Very sensible article about corsets Underwear wars? 7 things women wore under their skirts Underwear video 19th century changing silhouette at the Met Above quote: Gwen Raverat Period Piece
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“Courage mattered. Loyalty mattered. Honor mattered. Personal Pride mattered. Soldiers, and their culture, defined these as masculine values. The Gilded Age substituted gain for cause and friends for comrades.” Richard White
Charles Francis Adams, despite being considered an authority on the management of railroads couldn’t keep the Union Pacific stable as its president. One of the reasons, according to Richard White in Railroaded, was the boys–the young men too young to have fought in the war seemed “weak, unruly, willful and hard to control.” On July…
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“War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.” THOMAS HARDY
The House on Tenafly Road $1.99 e-Book
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Forgotten Men and Mules Set To Music
Here’s what happens when you visit a military museum instead of going on a Christmas house tour in December: the usual melancholy of a fallen world. I promise next week will be all sweetness and light!
Author Adrienne Morris 