“Here we are playing ping pong when we ought to be working,” says Ralph Baer, the inventor who subsequently created the Magnavox Odyssey home gaming system. The pre-Pong match takes place in Nashua, New Hampshire.
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"I am going to make a incubator for reptile eggs." (Image by W. Buys.)
wanted: i am looking for a fridge/freeze or wine cooler – $1 (broken/used & bx/manhattan only or deliv)
tell me price (not paying over 45). please nothing over 4ft tall. and 2.5feet wide.
i dont care if it doesnt cool i am going to make a incubator for reptile eggs.
please help me out!.
David Fincher is likely to receive an armful of Oscar nominations for The Social Network, but before he put himself on the map by directing Se7en, Fincher turned out the commercials for AT&T’s prescient 1990s “You Will” ad campaign. The compilation of spots below predicts teleconferencing, Skype, e-books, GPS, etc., though renewing a driver’s license at the ATM still sadly isn’t a reality. Tom Selleck provides the voiceover narration. (Thanks Reddit.)
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John Barton "Bart" King at bat in a Philadelphia match in 1900.
In 1900, cricket and baseball (or “base ball”) both enjoyed great popularity in America. People of that era probably couldn’t imagine a time when cricket wouldn’t be an important part of our sporting life. An excerpt from the 1901 Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almanac:
“Cricket continued to flourish in the United States during 1900. The annual contest with Canada again resulted in favor of the United States. Philadelphia is the stronghold of American Cricket, and in the Inter-City match with All New York maintained her superiority by winning the match in most hollow fashion. The Germantown Cricket Club won the Halifax Cup, the emblem of Quaker supremacy, for the sixth time in succession. In the metropolitan district, chief interest in the game is now centered in Brooklyn, where no less than six clubs have their headquarters. The championship of the Metropolitan District Cricket League was again captured by the Knickerbocker Athletic Club, while in the New York Cricket Association series the Paterson Cricket Club proved successful and retained the championship.”
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"They say I'm the fastest heavyweight in the ring today. That comes from punching underwater." (Image courtesy of Ira Rosenberg.)
I heard years ago that the young Muhammad Ali made up a bogus story about training underwater for a boxing match in order to get his face in Life magazine. The man was always very gifted when it came to hoopla. I came across the 1960 article, “A Wet Way to Train for a Fight,” on Google Books. Even a quick look at the spread will make it clear why a photo mag was a patsy for such a visual story. Ali hadn’t yet converted to Islam and was still called Cassius Clay. An excerpt from the article:
“The boxer punching up a storm with underwater lefts and rights is as cocky as he is unconventional. ‘Not to be bragging or anything like that,’ says the 19-year-old Cassius Marcellus Clay, ‘but they say I’m the fastest heavyweight in the ring today. That comes from punching underwater.’ Taking a cue from the immortal Ty Cobb, who weighted his shoes in training so that he would feel feather-footed when the season started, Clay goes into a swimming pool and, as these underwater pictures show, does a stunt of submarine shadowboxing. ‘You try to box hard,’ he explains. ‘Then when you punch the same way out of water you get speed. Clay, an Olympic champion before turning pro and winning his first eight fights, has been criticized for talking too much about everything including about how he will win the first world heavyweight title. His answer is to keep on talking–until he gets under water and just makes bubbles.”
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For some reason a chick impersonates a monkey as part of the attractions at the 1939-40 New York World’s Fair. It was a far simpler time.
Host Jack Barry (center) and contestants Vivienne Nearing and Charles Van Doren look tense on "Twenty-One." (Image by Orlando Hernandez / "New York World Telegram.")
The New York World Telegram archives provides this classic 1957 photo of three of the principals of the infamous Quiz Show scandal on the set of the program Twenty-One: Vivienne Nearing, host Jack Barry and beloved champion Charles Van Doren. Before long, all three would be targets of an investigation of the show’s practice of rigging outcomes. What’s amazing is that such intelligent people convinced themselves to do something so stupid, that is was somehow okay because that’s how it was done. It was a stunning level of self-delusion.
It must have been brutal picking up and continuing with life after such public disgrace, especially in an age before disgrace was just another marketing tool. Barry eventually regained his footing in the industry as host of Joker’s Wild. Van Doren resigned his professorship at Columbia and lost his job as an on-air personality on the Today show; he became a writer and editor and now is an adjunct English professor at the University of Connecticut. But what of Nearing, the lawyer and feminist who “dethroned” Van Doren and was convicted of perjury along with 13 others? Her 2007 obituary from the New York Times fills in the blanks:
“Ms. Nearing made headlines in 1957 when she dethroned Charles Van Doren as champion on Twenty-One, the popular quiz show on NBC. She won $5,500 in four appearances before she was defeated.
The glory of the victory came to an end and the headlines turned sour in 1960 when 14 contestants, including Ms. Nearing, were charged with second-degree perjury after falsely telling a grand jury that they had not been fed answers. She told the truth in a second grand jury statement, but was convicted of perjury.
Ms. Nearing was a lawyer for Warner Brothers at the time. She was disbarred for six months in 1962 after pleading guilty the year before to misdemeanor perjury. She eventually moved on to work at the New York-based law firm Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, where she became a senior partner and worked until her death.
Friends and family members said Ms. Nearing did not talk much about the scandal. If people broached the subject, she would change it, Ms. Kiemback said. She refused to be involved in the making of Quiz Show, a 1994 movie about the scandal, and gave up her dream of being a judge for fear of reviving the past.”
"Looks more like a ship sitting upside down on the water." (Image by Alexander Remizov.)
If the world keeps getting warmer and the oceans rise, we’ll have issues much larger to deal with than booking a room in a luxury hotel. But Russian architect Alexander Remizov has nonetheless designed a pre-fab hotel that can be built on water as readily as on land. An excerpt from a Spiegel article about the waterborne lodging known as the “Ark”:
“The rising sea waters caused by global warming have inspired a Russian architect to design a hotel that could be built on water as well as land. The eco-friendly ‘Ark’ could be constructed in just a few months anywhere in the world, the designer says.
It’s called “The Ark”, but looks more like a ship sitting upside down on the water. A new design by Russian architect Alexander Remizov challenges the tradition of land-based hotel living and would provide a refuge in the future — should the world face a modern-day flood of Biblical proportions.
Remizov designed the hotel as part of a program on architecture and disaster relief through the International Union of Architects (UIA). He collaborated with a German design and engineering firm and the Moscow-based scientist Lev Britvin, who, according to Remizov, has developed energy-saving solutions for space stations. They are now searching for investors to make the design a reality.”
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"Cow-dung toothpaste." (Image by Pikaluk.)
Some philosophers like working in airports, so why can’t photographers live in them? Native New Yorker Taryn Simon did just that for five days in 2009 (at JFK) to compile more than a thousand photos for her book, Contraband. The volume documents a wide variety of items confiscated from passengers by Customs officials. In a piece in the Guardian by Sean O’ Hagan, there’s a partial list of some of the verboten goods:
“The seized items include various drugs (Xanax, anabolic steroids, Ritalin, khat, ketamine, hashish), counterfeit jewellery, bags, hats, sportswear, shirts, DVDs and watches as well as several kinds of plants, seeds, grass, nuts and foodstuffs. Among the more exotic confiscated substances are deer antlers, deer blood, deer penis and deer tongue, as well as cow-dung toothpaste and cow urine.”
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"I want to learn how to wheelie." (Image Bo Nash.)
If you can teach me I can pay
Well here’s the deal I want to learn how to wheelie if u can keep me from falling back I can pay u as long as ur reasonable I been riding for about 5 years so Im not no rookie just been hard to get that stupid wheelie thing… So if u knw what ur doing and have a bike lol oh yea I can’t use my bike it’s an 09 r1 cost to much to fix lol so if u have a bike an time hit me up I dnt care about the cold real riders dnt so email me with ur number and how much ur gonna charge…..
"Kahn says he used the means beneath the dignity of a butcher to get these customers." (Image by Bartolomeo Passarotti.)
Two butchers in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn had a feud in the late nineteenth century which began to boil over. How would they settle the dispute? According to an article in the November 10, 1891 Brooklyn Daily Eagle, the rivalry might end in a duel fought with butcher knives. An excerpt:
“Rivalry in the butcher business in Greenpoint has become so desperate that a duel is proposed. Harry Grimes is a butcher employed at 553 Manhattan avenue. Nearly opposite is the butcher shop of Felix Kahn, at 580 Manhattan avenue. Kahn is a Frenchman who has a high temper. Grimes got some of Kahn’s customers recently and Kahn says he used means beneath the dignity of a butcher to get these customers.
Kahn’s assistant and young Grimes would frequently race for the house of a customer and would bang their butcher carts together in the race. Kahn finally boxed Grimes’ ears, and the latter said he could finish Kahn in two rounds, but that he would not stoop to anything so low as a street fight. The entire neighborhood became interested in the war of the rivals and they recently learned that Grimes had challenged Kahn to fight a duel with butcher knives, and that the challenge had been accepted. Neither of the principals would talk of the expected duel, and people were expecting that one or both of the butchers would be carved up.
"There is only one thing left for me, and that is to brand you as a coward and a poltroon." (Image by Annibale Carracci.)
Kahn showed his hand yesterday. He does not want blood. He wants protection, and his French blood having cooled off, he wishes to satisfy his honor in the courts of justice. He appeared before Justice Goetting in his Lee avenue police court to-day, and asked that the strong arm of the law be placed between him and the keen edge of Grimes’ knife. He gave the court the following challenge which he had received:
‘Mr. Kahn:
DEAR SIR–Some time since I indicted a letter to you, but you have not had the manliness or even the politeness enough to respond. What am I to understand by this, to say the least, ungentlemanly conduct. There is only one thing left for me, and that is to brand you as a coward and a poltroon, unworthy to be called a man. But what can be expected from Poland or Baxter street. For fear the letter I sent you miscarried. I will again give you an opportunity to respond, therefore I challenge you to fight me any time within the next week. The sooner the better. The insult and indignity cannot be wiped out too soon and nothing but blood will satisfy me. The failure on your part to answer this, my second communication, will stamp you as a sneak and a coward.
Yours respectfully,
The Butcher Boy Whom You So Cowardly Assaulted’
Kahn told the court that he had no desire to spill the blood of Grimes and that he was so fond of his own blood that he had no desire to lose any of it. Justice Goetting consented to act as his second and directed Clerk Schiepphaus to correspond with the blood thirsty butcher and request him to come to court to arrange for a compromise, which will not include blood letting.”
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With a helpful rotary dial.
"Iverson had hit rock bottom. At 34—having nearly exhausted his athletic gifts — he’d washed out of the NBA." (Image by Keith Allison.)
Beset by personal problems and in possession of seriously diminished skills, former NBA great Allen Iverson finds himself playing minor-league basketball in Turkey. Philadelphia magazine writer Robert Huber visited Istanbul to file a report about the troubled, faded star as he attempts to revive his life in an unlikely locale. (Thanks Longform.) An excerpt:
“IVERSON IS AT A CROSSROADS IN HIS LIFE. There is no going off into the sunset for him, no taking his vast millions and his fame and finishing off the job of raising his five kids in splendor and ease. Nothing works that way for him.
In fact, last spring — just after Iverson abandoned the Sixers following a short second stint with the team — Gary Moore said publicly that things were very bad for Iverson. His young daughter Messiah was quite sick with an undisclosed illness. His wife had filed for divorce. There were stories that he was gambling and drinking himself into oblivion. At one point, Moore beseeched a reporter with a chilling request:
‘Please pray for us. We need all the prayers we can get.’
(Image by reeb0k2008.)
Iverson had hit rock bottom. At 34—having nearly exhausted his athletic gifts — he’d washed out of the NBA, largely seen as too troubled and demanding to finish his career with some team needing to get a few more fannies in the seats. That failed last year in Philly, after Iverson had already been pushed out of Detroit and bolted from Memphis. His career seemed done, and maybe he was, too.
So he has come to Turkey to resurrect not only his basketball career, but his life. In … Istanbul? How is he going to survive camped out in a Friday’s in Istanbul?
As one NBA official put it, the guy spent the past five years pretty much living in either bars or casinos. But word has it that his family is coming, that he and Tawanna have reconciled and she’s about to arrive with all five kids, ranging in age from two to 16. The team has checked out schools and is finding the family a villa to live in. It’s a new beginning.”
Tags: Allen Iverson, Gary Moore, Robert Huber
"In 1919, the first practice baby, named Dicky Domecon for 'domestic economy,' came to Cornell." (Image by Paul Goyette.)
Interesting post on the Cornell University website about “Practice Apartments,” which were college-sponsored living quarters in the early 1900s that a group female students shared with a baby that was “loaned out” by a local orphanage. The antiquated program’s aim was to give young women practical experience in “mothercrafting.” Loaner babies that went through the one-year experience were considered more desirable by prospective parents. (Thanks to Reddit and PlosBlogs.) An excerpt:
“Beginning in the early 1900s, collegiate home economics programs across the nation included ‘practice house’ programs designed to help female students learn ‘mothercraft,’ the scientific art of childrearing. At Cornell each semester, eight women students lived with a resident advisor in the ‘practice apartment,’ where they took turns performing a full range of homemaking activities in a scientific and cost-efficient manner.
In 1919, the first practice baby, named Dicky Domecon for ‘domestic economy,’ came to Cornell. Cornell secured infants through area orphanages and child welfare associations. Babies were nurtured by the students according to strict schedules and guidelines, and after a year, they were available for adoption. Prospective adoptive parents in this era desired Domecon babies because they had been raised according to the most up-to-date scientific principles.
Flora Rose, an early proponent of the program, believed that babies were essential to replicate the full domestic experience. Albert Mann, Dean of the College of Agriculture, called the apartments ‘essential laboratory practice for women students.’ As time passed, however, new research in child development pointed to the need for a primary bond with a single caregiver, and social changes in the lives of women made the practice house focus on domesticity seem old-fashioned. In addition, by the late 1960s, the ideology most prominent in the college favored hard science over practical applications. By 1969, the year the college changed its name, practice apartments were dropped from the Cornell curriculum.”
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"I am terrified of giraffes, so I cannot keep it." (Image by Hans Hillewaert.)
Wooden Giraffe statue (Hastings)
Are you boring? Do you want to be interesting? Then you should take this giraffe. It is an African-looking statue, carved out of wood. However, I am terrified of giraffes, so I cannot keep it.
You could use it as a paperweight, or as a wooden giraffe. It is also possibly cursed; it just has that look to it.
“There are bullets all over the side of this building.”
Before he became famous worldwide for the Roots phenomenon, Alex Haley was a journalist known for some of Playboy magazine’s finest interviews. Haley, who had conducted Q&As with Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Miles Davis and numerous other larger-than-life characters, really outdid himself with his 1966 session with American Nazi Party founder George Lincoln Rockwell. Since Rockwell was unaware that Haley was African-American when he agreed to the interview, he decided to keep a firearm at the ready during the talk, just in case the journalist decided to assassinate him.
Rockwell’s parents were vaudeville comedians who knew Groucho Marx, and the reviled bigot was considered a class clown when he first entered Brown in 1938. But it was during those college years that he began to speak out against racial equality, a path that would lead him to being a full-blown hatemonger. Rockwell’s fears of being killed were realized the year after Haley’s piece ran, when his calls for racial violence were silenced by bullets. An excerpt from the interview’s blood-chilling opening:
“Playboy: Before we begin, Commander, I wonder if you’d mind telling me why you’re keeping that pistol there at your elbow, and this armed bodyguard between us.
Rockwell: Just a precaution. You may not be aware of the fact that I have received literally thousands of threats against my life. Most of them are from cranks, but some of them haven’t been; there are bullet holes all over the out side of this building. Just last week, two gallon jugs of flaming gasoline were flung against the house right under my window. I keep this gun within reach and a guard beside me during interviews because I’ve been attacked too many times to take any chances. I haven’t yet been jumped by an impostor, but it wasn’t long ago that 17 guys claiming to be from a university came here to ‘interview’ me; nothing untoward happened, but we later found out they were armed and planned to tear down the flag, burn the joint and beat me up. Only the fact that we were ready for that kind of rough stuff kept it from happening.
We’ve never yet had to hurt anybody, but only because I think they all know we’re ready to fight anytime. If you’re who you claim to be, you have nothing to fear.”
The Scott Paper Co. created a $1 paper dress in 1966 as a promotional gag, but the disposable outfit became a fashion trend for a while during the 1960s. A simple mini-skirt was just a few bucks, but a paper bridal gown could run about $15. Some background from a 1967 Time magazine piece:
“NEED MERCHANDISE DESPERATELY read the urgent telegram. The West Coast’s Joseph Magnin Co. was about to open ‘News Stand’ boutiques carrying paper dresses in its 28 stores; informal sales had proved so successful that the chain was nervously awaiting an onslaught of customers. The same happy nervousness is now sweeping other stores across the nation. Paper clothing, apparently, is here to stay.
It was only one year ago that Scott Paper Co. introduced disposable duds as a promotion gimmick with a sleeveless shift selling for $1. It was so shapeless that it recalled a paper bag; scoffers put it down as just a paper gag. But for a country already accustomed to throw-away cups, plates, napkins and diapers, paper clothing seemed only a logical next step. Scott sold 500,000 dresses in eight months, and the strong response had other manufacturers and designers joining the paper chase.”
"High-resolution, low-cost cameras are proliferating." (Image by Leonid Dzhepko.)
An article by Steve Lohr in the New York Times looks at the positives and negatives involved in the coming proliferation of cameras that can recognize objects, gestures, situations and even faces. An excerpt:
“High-resolution, low-cost cameras are proliferating, found in products like smartphones and laptop computers. The cost of storing images is dropping, and new software algorithms for mining, matching and scrutinizing the flood of visual data are progressing swiftly.
A computer-vision system can watch a hospital room and remind doctors and nurses to wash their hands, or warn of restless patients who are in danger of falling out of bed. It can, through a computer-equipped mirror, read a man’s face to detect his heart rate and other vital signs. It can analyze a woman’s expressions as she watches a movie trailer or shops online, and help marketers tailor their offerings accordingly. Computer vision can also be used at shopping malls, schoolyards, subway platforms, office complexes and stadiums.
All of which could be helpful — or alarming.
‘Machines will definitely be able to observe us and understand us better,’ said Hartmut Neven, a computer scientist and vision expert at Google. ‘Where that leads is uncertain.’”
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"We'll be able to plug informations streams directly into the cortex."
The Guardian had a fun feature in its Sunday January 2 edition, which it entitled “25 Predictions for the Next 20 Years.” Their tea-leaf reading seems a little aggressive, but the challenge of prognosticating is to force yourself to not play it safe. Some of the predictions have intriguing headings like “Russia will become a global food superpower” and “Technology creates smarter clothes.” An excerpt from the entry called “We’ll be able to plug information streams directly into the cortex”:
“By 2030, we are likely to have developed no-frills brain-machine interfaces, allowing the paralysed to dance in their thought-controlled exoskeleton suits. I sincerely hope we will not still be interfacing with computers via keyboards, one forlorn letter at a time.
I’d like to imagine we’ll have robots to do our bidding. But I predicted that 20 years ago, when I was a sanguine boy leaving Star Wars, and the smartest robot we have now is the Roomba vacuum cleaner. So I won’t be surprised if I’m wrong in another 25 years. Artificial intelligence has proved itself an unexpectedly difficult problem.
Maybe we will understand what’s happening when we immerse our heads into the colourful night blender of dreams. We will have cracked the secret of human memory by realising that it was never about storing things, but about the relationships between things. Will we have reached the singularity – the point at which computers surpass human intelligence and perhaps give us our comeuppance? We’ll probably be able to plug information streams directly into the cortex for those who want it badly enough to risk the surgery. There will be smart drugs to enhance learning and memory and a flourishing black market among ambitious students to obtain them.”
Technology creates smarter clothes’
"They are great feeders for Reptiles such as Adult Bearded Dragons." (Image by Jan Tik.)
DUBIA ROACHES – $1 (ELMHURST)
Be adviced that Nymphs have not molted to ADULTS YET. Selling Female and male nymphs Only
I am selling over MALE Dubia nymphs roaches ranging from Medium to Large. They are great feeders for Reptiles such as Adult Bearded Dragons, Large Geckos, Invertebrates and many others.
They have a higher meat to shell ratio compared to crickets. They do not bite, make noise, and do not stink as much as crickets.
The Male dubias are $0.25 cents each.
For every order of 50 male nymphs receive 1 free female nymph.
selling FEMALE nymphs in size 3/4″ – 1″. These havent molted yet to females. So you will NOT receive old females that eventually is at the end of their cycle. You can breed your own.
Female Nymphs:
1-10 $2.50/E
11-20 $2.25/E
21-40 $2.00/E
41++ $1.75/E
Also selling Water crystal/gel which provide great source of water to your feeders. They are safe for all feeder insects. These do not have calcium.!
Why pay $5 in pet-store for a 16oz jar of water crystal when you can get much more for even less?
1 dry oz water crystal makes 1 gallon of water crystals. That’s 8 jars of 16oz.
I’m selling 1 dry oz water crystal for $3 each. That’s uber cheap.
If you buy 3 dry oz you get one (1) dry oz FREE.
All you have to do is have a jar fulled with water (prefer distill) and add water crystal in. 1 teaspoon makes 16 oz water crystal. You are getting Approximately 8 teaspoons.
If the water crystal is to watery just add more water crystal or drain it out. If too little water add more water. Its that simple. Takes approximately 2 hrs minimum to expand.
Please be advised not to dispose water crystal down the drain. It will clog.
Jar NOT INCLUDED
LOCAL PICK-UP ONLY!!!
Andy Warhol autographs Brooke Shields' tee at Fiorucci's NYC store. (Image by Franco Marabelli.)
When skinny jeans were still known as skin-tight, the New York disco scene of the ’70s had a favorite store, and it was Fiorucci’s on East 59th Street. A place to see and be seen, it was full of celebrities of all types, trying to acquire a pair of gold cowboy boots or some green combat clothes. Its creator, Elio Fiorucci, took a different path than most retailers of the era to arrive at his Studio 54–ready ensembles. An excerpt from an article by Priscilla Tucker about Fiorucci’s in the March 28, 1977 New York magazine:
“The secret of his success, says Fiorucci, is ‘to be able to listen to what the public has to say. I am a chronicler, like a journalist. I am a coordinator of situations.’
Toward this end he employs young people–‘They are my antennae’–and sends them all over the world, wherever they want to go, looking at the products of village life in Indonesia, shopping the outdoor markets of Colombia, bringing things back to be reproduced or modified in Fiorucci factories. Anything–clothes, tinware, soap, bicycles, pottery–that attracts his stylists turns up in the stores. Employees are free to innovate, hiring now a girl who makes flowers on the spot, now a couple with fabrics and a sewing machine, to whip up before your eyes made-to-order skirts for less than those on Fiorucci’s racks.
Fiorucci himself often hires on the spur of the moment just because he likes the way someone puts himself or herself together. He found Mariagrazia, who now manages both his Milan stores and his New York store, while she was working at Gucci. ‘The atmosphere at Gucci was not real,’ says Mariagrazia, who finds reality in dressing à la Fiorucci, in army pants with strands of flowers hanging down her T-shirt, her fuzzy hair bobbing as she directs the moving of the pastel jeans to the back of the store, the rosebud challis dresses downstairs, the sexy posters over by the free-espresso bar.”
Tags: Elio Fiorucci, Mariagrazia, Priscilla Tucker
The anarchist bombs that rocked 23 Wall Street were contained in a horse-drawn cart.
Long before the terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 or the horrors of 9/11, Wall Street was devastated by anarchist bombs. In 1920, the home of JP Morgan & Co., at 23 Wall Street, was the site of an explosion that left dozens dead and hundreds injured. No assailant was ever captured. An excerpt from a 2003 article by James Barron in the New York Times about the largely forgotten tragedy:
“The fortresslike facade of the Morgan building was pocked with craters that remain deep enough to sink a palm into. The columns of what is now Federal Hall, across the street, were blackened. More than 30 people were killed and several hundred wounded, and the damage exceeded $2 million — more than $18.4 million in 2003 dollars.
‘The number of victims, large though it was, cannot convey the extent of the inferno produced by the explosion, the worst of its kind in American history,’ Paul Avrich, a professor of history at Queens College, wrote in reviewing the case more than a decade ago.
The investigators sniffing for clues long ago went from being detectives to historians. The police never charged anyone in the bombing, and it is a mostly forgotten moment in New York City history.
‘Nobody remembers,’ said Beverly Gage, whose book The Wall Street Explosion: Capitalism, Terrorism and the 1920 Bombing of New York, is to be published next year by Oxford University Press.”
Tags: Beverly Gage, James Barron, Paul Avrich
REBORN DOLL BABY – $299 (kearny)
LITTLE DREAMS NURSERY Introduces to you
EMILY
Created by Reborn Artist Ingrid Bellardi
For those of you who are new to the wonderful world of reborning, I have been creating little Dreams Nursery for 4 1/2 years now. My babies have been adopted by delighted Moms from all around the world. I am constantly striving to improve and grow at the artform of reborning that I love and am passsionately dedicated to.
~Reborn –november 20 th 2010-
~Length – 17 Inches~
~Weight – 3lb 3oz~
~Eyebrows – light brown
~hair – hoothing light brown
~Limbs – Full Length Arms and Legs~
~Cloth Body – Doe Suede – Flesh Colour~
The beginning
I was just so exited to reborn this beautiful sculpt. I trust to you viewing this baby, my true passion and exitement will shine through in this little girl. She is the sculpt called ”Emily” by the world reknowned and very talented artist, Marita Winters
She is now my darling little angel, Emily
beautiful ”real life” complexion was achieved through the use of Genesis heat-set paints. Her colors will never fade. I mix my own colours anew each time I start painting my angels.
The lifelike mottled effect of her skin was achieved through multiple layers of subtle shading over a period of time.Emily shading has been done a bit softer, with delicate light overtones to give her the colouring of an older baby.
It is my own technique that is constantly evolving as I strive to create the most lifelike babies possible.
Every little crease and fold of Emily head and limbs have been detailed, blushed and shaded to achieve realism.
Emily has got soft veins painted on her little face and limbs. Never too bold as to overshadow her amazing ”real life” complexion.
Body
Emily has been given a brand new cloth body, custom designed, and is in perfect proportion to her head and limbs. Her limbs are very easy to pose into a multitude of positions.
Her body has been filled with soft fiberfill that will never clott and glass pellets Emily body is soft and cuddly and has been realistically weighted. Once you pick her up, you just can’t put her down. Although she is a little heavier, she can be carried very comfortably on your hip as a toddler would.
Emily limbs have been filled with glass granules and have also been weighted to perfection.
Her head has been weighted with slightly larger glass pellets and needs a little support when she is picked up, just like a real baby.
Mouth & Eyes
Her lips have a lovely soft realistic color and matches her complexion perfectly.
Emily has a magnetic pacifier/dummy to sooth her when she gets lonely.
As with all babies, Emily has got tiny red and blue veins on her skin, with blue skintone showing through in all the right places.
Nails
Emily petit little nails were given a baby manicure and pedicure.
First I applied a matte sealer as a base and the tips were painted white.
Another 2 coats of matte sealer was then applied for durability.
Her nails now have a tender fresh clipped look.
What Emily will be taking home with her
all clothes in photos
~Magnetic dummy/pacifier~
~Fleecy Baby Blanket~
~Disposable Nappy~
Please note that Emily is not a toy but a Collectors Item.
Filed under “Really Bad Ideas” is this 1950s commercial in which a face cleanser proves its mettle by removing radioactive dirt from a model’s cheeks.