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Photo Walk: NY Style11 comments

JRP wrote 2 weeks ago: I met up with my friend Brian from www.graspthemoment.com for our own version of a photo walk aroun … more →

Tags: Black & White, Candids, Cemeteries, Friends & Family, HDR/Tonemapping, Historic Sites, Landmarks & Monuments, Landscapes, Waterscapes, Skyscapes, Personal, 1940

W.H. Auden: An English poet in the East Village

wildnewyork wrote 3 weeks ago: Poet Wystan Hugh Auden arrived in New York City in 1939. After stints at the George Washington Hotel … more →

Tags: east village, Bars and Restaurants, Poets and writers, Music, art, theater, St. Marks Place, Schrafft's, W.H. Auden, Poems about New York, Hannah Arendt

Black Cat (L'amour de l'étymologie VIII)

Librari[d]an wrote 3 weeks ago: Welcome to an unlucky installment of the Halloween edition of L’amour de l’étymologie (a featur … more →

Tags: etymology, Legend, black, L'amour de l'étymologie, Evil, Indiana, Weather, Familiar, Halloween

Was Hitler An Atheist?1 comment

Metro State Atheists wrote 1 month ago: See for yourself. “My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter … more →

Tags: Qoutes, Bible, Christianity, God, Jesus, Lord, Christian, atheist, Adolf Hitler

I Want To Go Home

Gladys Hobson wrote 1 month ago: I want to go home It was one week before Christmas 1939. The Second World War had started but that … more →

Tags: wartime, hospital, sick child, scarlet fever

Stalin to the Rescue

Joel wrote 2 months ago: For two and a half weeks, the German army had been swarming over Poland.  Since the start of … more →

Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Europe, NKVD, Poland, Josef Stalin, Nazi-Soviet Pact

the wizard of oz (victor fleming, 1939)2 comments

Kendra wrote 2 months ago: there are two films that were definite staples of my childhood which i occasionally still pop into m … more →

Tags: Classic Films, actor: jack haley, actress: judy garland, classic flicks, director: fleming, Favorite Films, film: gone with the wind, film: the wizard of oz

The Women - 1939 version vs. 2008 version1 comment

starwoodgal wrote 2 months ago: With Hurricane Ike heading inland and rain predicted until next Tuesday,  I am planning on taking … more →

Tags: Burning Blog, Movies, The Women, Norma Shearer, Meg Ryan, 2008

Canada Joins the Fray

Joel wrote 2 months ago: The German invasion of Poland was, for Great Britain and France, the final straw.  Having ex … more →

Tags: World War II (1939-1945), North America, Poland, Canada, united states

Eva Cassidy: Over The Rainbow

ihopeyousuffer wrote 2 months ago: Album: Live at Blues Alley (1996) Sjanger: Alternativ Annet: Live på Blues Alley, Januar 1996 … more →

Tags: 1996, eva cassidy, Over the Rainbow, Harold Arlen, E.Y. Harburg, judy garland, januar, Alternativ, Blues Alley

Hollywood Party6 comments

Kendra wrote 2 months ago: All the minks and sables Wines with labels Garbos, Gables Greet you Taxis send us To a tremendous Ho … more →

Tags: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, the oliviers, Celebrities, Hollywood, California, Walk Of Fame, Fun times

Obsessing our private lives;

callmeandrea wrote 2 months ago: September 1, 1939 By W.H. Auden I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-Second Street Uncertain and afrai … more →

Tags: change, Poetry, Daily, September 1, W.H. Auden

A Most Lopsided Beginning...

Joel wrote 2 months ago: If you had asked the German officials, they would have said something like, “Polish mil … more →

Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Europe, Germany, Poland, Nazi-Soviet Pact

The Polish are Coming, The Polish are Coming!!!!2 comments

Joel wrote 2 months ago: It’s good to be back!! I often took my lunch with me in grade school and, as I recall t … more →

Tags: Period between World Wars (1919-1939), Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia

The Roaring Twenties (1939) Raoul Walsh3 comments

John Greco wrote 2 months ago:      I love Warner Brothers gangster films. They were tougher, grittier, more street wise than … more →

Tags: Film Reviews, frank mchugh, gladys cooper, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Jeffrey Lynn, Pricilla Lane, Raoul Walsh, the roaring twenties

Speech by Herr Hitler to the Reichstag on September 1, 19391 comment

historicalresources wrote 2 months ago: Speech by Herr Hitler to the Reichstag on September 1, 1939.   FOR months we have been suffering un … more →

Tags: Adolf Hitler, Adolf Hitler, Beginning of the WW II, Germany, Invasion in Poland, September 1, USSR

Poland Feels the Deadly Embrace2 comments

Joel wrote 2 months ago: Poland. That stubborn country that refuses to do what I want. Poland. The country with the ba … more →

Tags: Period between World Wars (1919-1939), Poland, Nazi-Soviet Pact, Joachim von Ribbontrop, Vyacheslav Molotov, Danzig

Nov 12, 1939

samileigh wrote 2 months ago: Nov. 12th, 1939.  The Cash Baptist Church was called in conference for the purpose of transacting a … more →

Oct. 8, 1939

samileigh wrote 2 months ago: Oct. 8th, 1939.  Cash Baptist church of Cash, Ark. was called in conference for transacting such bu … more →