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3 Apr

Arthur Guy Empey wrote the bestselling WWI memoir, Over The Top. He was an American who volunteered and served with the British as a bomber and machine-gunner, wounded at the Somne. After the war, he wrote fiction, creating Terence O'Leary.

The sinking of the Lusitania seemed to the cause Empey, an American sergeant, volunteered with the British, and was soon living in the squalor of the trenches in France - lice, rats, mud and Germans trying to kill you for the cherry on top.

Empey was wounded in hand-to-hand combat with a bayonet, but survived. Then he was trained as a 'bomber' - not in a plane, but tossing fragmentation grenades. He was wounded at the Somme going 'Over the Top' - 17 of his 20 men unit died - and he laid in No Man's Land for a day+

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3 Apr

Private Snafu

Once a military secret, Private Snafu (voiced by Mel Blanc) was part of a multi-talent effort to train the military in WWII. These were intended for adults, about serious topics, despite looking like Looney Tunes to modern audiences.

There were different ideas about training films - are they like textbooks, serious and sober, or could serious and sober topics use humor, sex and other more or less juvenile aspects to open up heads. Frank Capra thought boring was bad.

Disney originally was asked to make training films, but wanted to own and market the character and was undercut by Warner Bros - who got the gig. Private Snafu (Situation Normal, All F'd Up) would be in 26 short training films (this is Booby Traps)

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2 Apr

Was Hijacker D.B. Cooper a Comic Book fan?

About 50 years ago, right before Thanksgiving, 1971, a man who gave his name as Dan Cooper successfully skyjacked a plane, bailing out with $200,000 - never to be seen again.

If you are an American and have never heard of the comic Dan Cooper, that is to be expected. It is a Franco-Belgian comic book, begun in 1954,mabout a Canadian fighter jock. I think it was in French and German, but not English.

Dan Cooper was likely sold in Canada as well as Europe. There is some thought that D.B Cooper encountered this comic book as inspiration for the nom de guerre.

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2 Apr

Yvonne Craig with short hair, which 'emphasizes her youthful perkiness' as well as ease of care.

Yvonne Craig in publicity stills with an updo hair style and large earrings, and longer hair sand jewelry.

Yvonne Craig in a very daring bathing suit (especially for 'Barbara Gordon') in the Batman tv series.

It reminds me of the suit Domino wears in Thunderball. I wonder if that bow was on the original design?

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1 Apr

#StarTrek Nerd Talk

Transporters:

1) kill you here, rebuild you there
2) kill you here, build a new you there
3) turn you into a newt (matter stream) but you get better?

In other words, is there continuity of personhood in transporters?

#StarTrek is full of very smart people. Would they walk into a Kill You Now, Resurrect You Later machine?

Yet from very early on (episode 5), we see the transporter building a duplicate. That raises an issue that its a high tech Xerox (later two Rikers)

Many people in #StarTrek don't seem religious (no Father Mulcahy figure), but many Bajorans are. Would Bajorans, especially Bajoran spiritual leaders, use transporter technology if there was any question?

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18 Mar

Earth Spider Picture Scroll from Tokyo National Museum

Tsuchigumo, a spider-like spirit, here in the guise of a lovely woman, encounters Minamoto no Yorimitsu. Sensing danger, he strikes at her with his sword, and she disappears. He pursues her into caves in a mountain.

Inside the pursuers find, not a lovely lady, but an enormous spider. The tsuchigumo is slain, with lead to skulls and smaller spiders coming from the body.

*Source: Dailyartmagazine.com

In another tale, Yorimitsu meets an entire yokai army, but attacks the female general. The blow striking, the illusion is broken - the entire army was but a glamor. Again, she is pursued to her cave and slain in her true form of the giant spider

*Source: yokai.com

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