Michael R. Barrick's blog
Fri, 2012/12/28 - 10:00am
Sun, 2012/12/23 - 10:36pm
22 vintage Chirstmas cigarette ads ranging for the late 1930's to the 1960's ...and one for a lighter from 1954, because with all those smokes, you have to have a lighter!
(click the images to view larger versions)
Sun, 2012/11/11 - 11:53am
As I start writing this it is 11:11 on Remembrance Day, the moment of silence on the anniversary of the end of the Great War in 1918, the "War to End All Wars", the war too horrible to repeat, the day to remember that. The day to remember the sacrifices and the horror and to not do it again.
"Lest we forget" is from Rudyard Kipling's poem Recessional. Written for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee as a reminder of the impermanence of empires in the grand scheme of things. It's the same sentiment as Carl Sagan's "Pale blue dot" quotation:
Sun, 2012/11/11 - 10:00am
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