Monday, February 1, 2021
Sunday, January 31, 2021
January 31, 1921. The Carroll A. Deering and six toed cats.
St. Vrain Glacier, Colorado, copyright deposit, January 31, 1921.
Isabella Glacier, Colorado, copyright deposit, January 31, 1921..
Fair Glacier from the rim of Hell Canyon, copyright deposit, January 31, 1921.
It was on this day in 1921 that the Carroll A. Deering was found, wrecked. We noted this story on the day it was last in communication with anyone.
Regular air mail service commenced in New Zealand.
The Evolutionary Biological Origin of Side Eye and Eye Rolling.
It turns out, at least according to those who have looked at it, that the eye roll, or side eye, isn't a studied reaction, it's evolutionary biology at work.
It occurs more frequently in women than men, younger women than older women, and women react much more strongly to it.
And the reason, scientists now suspect, is one of evolutionary biology. It's a way for women to express discontent and disapproval, across cultures, without getting beat up.
January 31, 1941. Truce in Indochina, fighting in Libya, Movies, and Boxing
Japan, fearing the result of ongoing fighting between a client state, Thailand, and a near captive colonial entity, French Indochina, arranges for a negotiated truce between the two powers.
The Abbott and Costello movie Buck Privates was released. I'm not really keen on Abbott and Costello, but if you like their vaudeville style of comedy, this film is one that remains fairly well regarded. It received universal circulation at Army post theaters at the time, and oddly the Japanese picked it up for propaganda purposes to show the incompetence of the U.S. military.
The movie was a musical and also featured the Andrews Sisters.
The commencement of allied offensive action against Kufra in Italian Libya commenced.
Joe Louis KO'ed Red Burman to retain his heavyweight boxing title.
More on the days' events in the Second World War:
Day 520 February 1, 1941
Italian prisoners bombed by Germans
Today in World War II History—January 31, 1941
Sunday Morning Scene: Churches of the East: The ruins of of Saint Albain Nazaire, France.
Churches of the East: The ruins of of Saint Albain Nazaire, France.:
All photographs by MKTH.
The ruins of of Saint Albain Nazaire, France.
The 16th Century "Old Church" at St. Albain Naizaire in France stands as a silent reminder of the violence of World War One. The church was destroyed by the French Army to keep it from being used by the Germans as an observation post in 1914.
Following the war, locals elected not to rebuilt the church and leave it as a monument to the tragedy of the war.
All photographs by MKTH.
The half educated.
It's the half-educated, as usual, who's the enemy. He always is. The Wise Men and the shepherds both knelt in Bethlehem.
Robert Huge Benson.
Saturday, January 30, 2021
Best Posts of the Week of January 24, 2021.
January 30, 1921. Grand Duchess Elisabeth Feodoronova of Russia laid to rest.
Funeral ceremony over the remains of Princess Elizabeth, sister of the Czarina and her maid, in the Russian Church of the Magdalene on the Mt. of Olives. Jan. 30th, 1921
Elizabeth of Hesse and By Rhine, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Elizabeth Feodoronova of Russia, was interred on this day at the Russian Church of the Magdalene on the Mount Of Olives.
She had been murdered on July 18, 1918 by the Communists.
She married into the Russian royal family prior to her younger sister, Alix, who became the Czarina. Indeed, she met the future Czar Nicholas at the wedding of Elizabeth and Sergei, a Russian Grand Duke. Sergei and Elizabeth were both deeply religious and while Elizabeth had been born Lutheran, she converted, as would Alix, to Russian Orthodoxy. Sergei was assassinated by a Russian socialist radical in 1905 and Elizabeth did not remarry. Reflecting her sincere religious nature, she thereafter sold all of her possessions, including her wedding ring, and became a Russian Orthodox nun.
She arrested with members of her family upon the orders of Lenin. The Cheka murdered her and others by beating them, throwing them in a shaft, and tossing in hand grenades. When even that failed to kill them, evidenced by strains of a Russian Orthodox hymn being sung from below, the shaft was torched.
She was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1981.
Friday, January 29, 2021
January 29, 1921. The Great Olympic Blowdown and the Sighting of the Carroll A. Deering.
Blown down trees.
On this date in 1921 the Great Olympic Blowdown occurred in which a massive windstorm blew down 40% of the trees on Olympic Mountain in Washington state, killing 200 Roosevelt Elk. The event remains nearly unparalleled.
More on that event here:
The Great Olympic Blowdown of January 29, 1921
The last siting of the crew of the Carroll A. Deering was made by the Cape Lookout Lightship. Crewmen could be seen on board and a person on board reported the ship had lost its anchor. The lightship keeper photographed the ship. Crewmen were on the quarterdeck where they were generally not allowed. The man who addressed the lightship had a foreign accent and asked the lightship to contact the ship's owners about the anchor. As the lightship's radio was out, it did not do so.
That afternoon another ship spotted the vessel headed for Diamond Shoals, but did not attempt to hail it, assuming that a lighthouse would waive it off.
Two days later the ship was spotted wrecked on Diamond Shoals. Two lifeboats, the logs and the crew's personal effects were nowhere to be found when the ship was capable of being reached several days later.
None of the crew were ever found. Much speculation has occurred on the mystery, but it seems most likely that it suffered a mutiny.
Two men performing bicycle stunts were photographed in Washington, D.C.
As was suffrage art.
Blog Mirror, with sartorial and social comment by me: NFU SERIES: FARMING IS A POLITICAL ACT
A post from a member of the Canadian National Farmers Union:
NFU SERIES: FARMING IS A POLITICAL ACT
It's a good post, but one comment.
Why does the young, hipster, generation of farmers dress like idiots.
So many of these people are going to have skin cancer at an early age, it's not funny. They won't wear hats and they hardly wear clothes. And if they do wear hats, it's some silly synthetic thing, or some goofball cotton thing, that's the antithesis of environmental ethos they claim to espouse.
And the women farmers, I have to say, are seemingly dense about how human evolutionary biology works in regard to male female relationships, as well as the environment they're working in.
Seriously, I've been around cows, and milking a cow (which I have never done) isn't a wholly clean enterprise in a wholly clean environment. Put on some freakin' clothes. Cutoff overalls don't serve any purpose at all, other than to make you look like a toddler, and combining it with a barely there halter top makes you look like you are auditioning for Petty Coat Junction or Hee Haw's "All Jug Band". Get a clue.
It's all distracting from your message.
Friday Farming: Carbon Capture.
You have to admit it is funny.
Great Alone Cattle and 12 others follow
Blog: Game and Fish Commission issues statement on former Commissioner Schmid
This has been in the news:
-WGFD- |
I'm not at all certain what this is really about. It's pretty unclear. Schmid was a vocal opponent of the aerial hunting of mountain goats by hired USF&W agents, wanting it to be done by local hunters, which I agree with. He also was quite vocal in support of trappers, where things seem to be evolving towards new regulations. And, while the Governor indicated that this was not part of it, he was one of the Wyoming Republicans who traveled to Washington D. C. for protests that turned into insurrection, although there's no indication that he was part of the insurrection.
Thursday, January 28, 2021
January 28, 1921. War orphans, Irish protesters, Lost airships, and Absurd hats.
Admiral McCully's youthful Russian charges visited Secretary of the Navy Daniels on this day in 1921. We've written about them at length here:
What were their lives like? Admiral McCully's adopted Russian orphans, Eugenia Z. Selifanova and Olga Krundvcher.
Pickets protesting for Irish independence marched in Washington, D.C. Such demonstrations were now a common thing in the United States, which Irish Republicans were courting.
Irish Pickets, 1/28/21, in Washington D. C.
The British sustained the loss of the airship R34, which flew into the side of a hill and was destroyed.
A couple of elderly Congressman were photographed wearing fairly absurd hats.
Congressman Isaac R. Sherwood of Ohio allowed himself to be photographed in this fairly absurd hat.
Champ Clark.
For more on hats:
Caps, Hats, Fashion and Perceptions of Decency and being Dressed.
Reddit influences the market.
From Twitter:
Shares of AMC Entertainment surge more than 200% as feverish buying continues from retail tradersOn Wednesday morning, AMC Entertainment shares increased by more than 200% during premarket trading and hit more than $15 per share, nearly seven times the average analyst price target. AMC joins GameStop, BlackBerry, Bed Bath & Beyond, Etsy and a list of heavily shorted stocks that have recently seen eye-opening gains thanks to encouragement from individual investors on Reddit’s WallStreetBets. Hedge funds that are short on the other side have been rushing to cover their losses.Photo via @Forbes
This is genuinely weird.
A Twitter comment from everybody's favorite liberal:
Gotta admit it’s really something to see Wall Streeters with a long history of treating our economy as a casino complain about a message board of posters also treating the market as a casino
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Anyways, Tax the Rich
Something about this just won't be good.
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