1945

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• Finnish Cooks Put Enemy in the Soup

  
  Today's History Lesson — Authority: 122
  We’ve gotten mostly dug out from the biggest blizzard to hit the area in more than 30 years.  It began in earnest Tuesday and, by noon yesterday, had dumped 15″ of snow.  Of course, the snow didn’t fall in a vacuum…it was carried about by 40+ mph winds.  We don’t have a snowblower, just shovels, so it was ...
  7 hours ago

• 25 Greatest Christmas Films: #16 — ‘Christmas In Connecticut’ (1945)

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 744
  There’s a “Twilight Zone” episode early in the first season where Ida Lupino plays a Norma Desmond -type screen star: aging, resentful, a little nuts and holed up in a dark Hollywood mansion lost in the glory days that run endlessly on an old film projector. The final Serling-esque twist is that she ends up ...
  1 day ago

• Our Century of Fallout: Every Nuclear Detonation, Mapped [Data]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 886
  Everyones got a notion of how the last century went, in terms of nuclear explosions. There was Hiroshima, then Nagasaki. There were some nuclear tests out in the desert, and the ocean. But would you...
  2 days ago

• Finns Strike Back in Winter War

  
  Today's History Lesson — Authority: 122
  It was a dark, cold, and moonless night as Lt. Col Pajari moved his men into position.  Of course, in Finland, December was mostly dark and always cold.  But while the winter of 1939 was as dark as any given winter, the weather was unusually cold, with temperatures that would hit -30°F regularly.  There was ...
  3 days ago

• M. S. Subbulakshmi’s Hindi Meera (1947)

  
  PassionforCinema.com — Authority: 142
  M. S. Subbulakshmi I have some memories associated with my old VHS tape of the 1947 Hindi version of the 1945 Tamil film Meera that is synonymous with M. S. Subbulakshmi (1916-2004). The year was 1991. Rajiv Gandhi had been assassinated on May 21. Sometime in the next couple of days or so, Doordarshan, in a ...
  1 week ago

• Allied Secrecy at Bari Doesn’t Cut the Mustard

  
  Today's History Lesson — Authority: 122
  The German air raid on the Italian port of Bari would have, under normal circumstances, occupied a minor space on the shelves of history.  It is notable that the attack, which took place on the evening of December 2, 1943 and involved 105 Junkers Ju-88 bombers, caught the Allies completely off guard and ...
  1 week ago

• Particle Reactor Used in Wine Fraud

  
  FriendsEAT.com — Authority: 432
  Is this the real thing, or are you getting scammed? Fraud in the global wine market is on the rise and since author Benjamin Wallace wrote about the purchase of a fraudulent bottle of 1787 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux in his book The Billionaire’s Vinegar , the panic among wine merchants and connoisseurs has ...
  1 week ago

• Shankly: Celebrating 50 Years

  
  More Than Mind Games — Authority: 411
  Mentally, the 1920s will always be for me as they were in my early youth: fifty years ago. And Shanks’s arrival at Anfield, maybe twenty. And now there’s this sudden jarring sensation, a dull thump to the stomach, as the realization sets in of the passage of all those extra years.  Even this glorious quotation is ...
  1 week ago

• Screwy Squirrel (1944)

  
  Picturenose — Authority: 118
  Let’s go nuts, kids…Cillian Donnelly returns with his thoughts on the brilliant beginnings of cartoon violence…If, like me, you believe Tex Avery to be the only true genius... To read more, follow the link on this page to www.picturenose.com
  1 week ago

• 1945: Anton Dostler, gone commando

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 423
  On December 1, 1945, German General Anton Dostler was shot by the American military at Aversa, Italy, for war crimes. Gen. Dostler readied for execution, from the U.S. National Archives. Click for larger image, or click here for the post-execution photo. Specifically, General Dostler was condemned for ...
  1 week ago

• Soviet Avalanche has Finns Seeing Red

  
  Today's History Lesson — Authority: 122
  In the days following the end of negotiations between Finnish diplomats and Joseph Stalin, the citizens of Finland began to relax just a bit.  It was no secret that their army stood little chance…correct that… no chance against the military tsunami that the Soviets could unleash, and the Finns had initially ...
  1 week ago

• FootLocker North Gallery, photos by PhotoRun.net, Note by Larry Eder

  
  RunBlogRun — Authority: 431
  The start of the FootLocker Northeast Girls regional...... Our observers told us that the move to Long Island this year added about two hours of driving for runners from PA, DE and Maryland. The weather was tough, with very high winds, but Aisling Cuffe looked tough in the Northeast Regional. Photos courtesy of ...
  1 week ago

• BlueDot BDP-1945 Portable DVD Player

  
  Loopy Gadgets and consumer electronics — Authority: 489
  Bluedot launches the new BDP-1945 portable DVD player, it features a slim 29mm with a 9-inch swivel LCD display with a 800×480 resolution and has the capability to support playback of DVD Video, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, Audio CD, CD-R/RW and MP3 CDs. The BlueDot Portable DVD player is available in the colors of Black ...
  1 week ago

• 1945: Heinz Eck, U-Boat commander

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 423
  On this date in 1945, Heinz-Wilhelm Eck and two of his former subordinates on the Unterseeboot U-852 were shot in Hamburg for killing the survivors of a sunk target. The defendants in the U-852 trial . From left to right: Eck, August Hoffmann, Walter Weisspfennig, Hans Lenz, Wolfgang Schwender. The leftmost ...
  1 week ago

• BlueDot BDP-1945 Portable DVD Player

  
  iTech News Net — Authority: 657
  Bluedot launches the new BDP-1945 portable DVD player with a 9-inch swivel LCD display. The player’s 9-inch display has 800×480 resolution. It supports playback of DVD Video, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, Audio CD and CD-R/RW. It can also play MP3 from CDs. The BlueDot BDP-1945 is slim at just 29mm. It is available in ...
  1 week ago

• French Dip, Hold the Kraut

  
  Today's History Lesson — Authority: 122
  The decision by Vichy French forces to lay down their arms in North Africa didn’t play well at the top of the German military.  The annoucement, coming on November 11, 1942, was immediately followed by the German occupation of Vichy France. Nazi forces rolled through Vichy (which comprised the southeast half of ...
  1 week ago

• Pearl Harbor Fleet Goes Mountain-Climbing

  
  Today's History Lesson — Authority: 122
  I hope you all have had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  Ours was very good.  Our son, his wife, and their children came over, entertained us, and helped us eat enchiladas and all the trimmings.  I drank too much soda and ate too much, but all in all, a great day. As the food settles, I’m going to do something most of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Image of the week

  
  Christchurch City Libraries Blog — Authority: 472
  Cars parked on Cambridge Terrace. 1945. Looking towards Amuri Motors on the corner of Gloucester and Durham Streets. Sept. 1945 Like what you see? Complete this form to order an image. If you have any further information on any of the images, or if you would like to donate images to our collection please ...
  2 weeks ago

• USS Liscome Bay: Makin’s Biggest Victim

  
  Today's History Lesson — Authority: 122
  Usually, when I cover a topic, the search for related artwork or photos is relatively easy.  But when the subject is the USS Liscome Bay , such is not the case.  There are very few photos available.  And that’s because the life of Liscome Bay was short, and it was a life that ended quickly…and violently. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Paris Hats - 1945

  
  Couture Allure Vintage Fashion — Authority: 128
  October 1945. Paris was liberated the previous August and the final German surrender in Europe took place in late April. 6 months later, a French fashion magazine asks, "Sommes-Nous Prêts?". "Are You Ready?" for the return of la Haute Couture Parisienne? In the fall of 1945, fashion was just beginning to emerge ...
  2 weeks ago

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