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Thursday, July 7, 2022

An Overview of Switzerland's M70 & M83 Uniforms and Their Red Camouflage...

The pattern may look funny to some, but frankly the pattern works pretty well in the Rocky Mountain West, and the incredible number of pockets makes the M70 a great hunting jacket.

Saturday, March 19, 2022

Poster Saturday. Russo Ukrainian War Poster Art

Wars, traditionally, have made for graphic posters. However, since 1945, poster art in the west has dramatically declined in quality and importance.

In the East it did not, probably reflecting the lack of visual information systems, television in particular, and it remained strong into the 1970s.

The Russo Ukrainian War seems to be a reflection of this heritage. Democratic Ukraine has been producing some really stunning graphic poster art, of which this example is the most graphic I've seen, although last week's was as well. It's also produced a lot of ad hoc poster art, as in of the handbill type, which we'll also be running.

For those less familiar with the visual elements depicted here, the khaki colored boot is a Ukrainian one. The vampire teeth skull wears a Russian camouflaged tankers helmet, bedecked with the Russian tricolor flag, and the ribbon for the Cross of St. George, the Russian Federation's highest military honor.

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This blog has been around since 2009. In the very first post, we asked the question: "What the heck is this blog about?"

Our answer to the question was: "The intent of this blog is to try to explore and learn a few things about the practice of law prior to the current era. That is, prior to the internet, prior to easy roads, and the like. How did it work, how regional was it, how did lawyers perceive their roles, and how were they perceived?"

We also noted: "Part of the reason for this, quite frankly, has something to do with minor research for a very slow moving book."

All of this is still true, but the focus of the blog has changed somewhat. It now focuses on the era from 1890 to 1920 in general, rather than on the law and lawyers specifically, although that may be far from obvious. It's also become the location where we comment on anything we feel moved to comment on.

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