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Discussing history, appraisals, collecting, science, music, and everything in between. February 2016 New Moon. February 9, 2016. Caught the 23 hour old moon tonight on the way to our Cub Scout Pack’s committee meeting tonight. Mystery Soviet Headgear from the Ethio-Somali War, 1977-1978. January 5, 2016. The exterior is painted olive-grey with a light sand finish, and features a striking yellow stenciled horned and pointy-toothed skull and bones. The interior is heavily oxidized, but an Arabic number...
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Discussing history, appraisals, collecting, science, music, and everything in between. February 9, 2016. February 2016 New Moon. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out.
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January | 2016 | American Chimæra
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Discussing history, appraisals, collecting, science, music, and everything in between. Mystery Soviet Headgear from the Ethio-Somali War, 1977-1978. January 5, 2016. First, the anatomy of the steel helmet: The shell is clearly a stock Soviet M40 style. The liner rivets are copper, which some helmet experts believe point to a North Korean origin, though I cannot confirm it. This particular example lacks the liner, though traces of the steel band remain. So what of this Somali attribution? A series of mili...
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April | 2015 | American Chimæra
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Discussing history, appraisals, collecting, science, music, and everything in between. Threads of a Tyrant. April 23, 2015. May 31, 2015. Here’s the latest installment of American Chimera’s. E-archeology project of digging up old Manion’s International Auction House listings I wrote in the early 2000’s, in an effort to rescue this era from the electronic abyss. I have added extra historical information for context and general entertainment. I thought back to where I was in summer 2003. It was to be the f...
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June | 2015 | American Chimæra
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Discussing history, appraisals, collecting, science, music, and everything in between. Gathering the Eagles in Kansas City. June 25, 2015. June 25, 2015. As we discussed the idea of short outings with our Webelos dens, we thought of the Eagle Scout memorial and fountain located in Kansas City’s Gillham Park, at the intersection of 39th Street and Gillham Road…which in turn inspired this blog post. A Scout is Thrifty. Copies of this allegorical scene were sculpted in pink granite by German-American sculpt...
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March | 2015 | American Chimæra
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Discussing history, appraisals, collecting, science, music, and everything in between. March 29, 2015. May 30, 2015. Originally published in Trendline Magazine. June/July 1999; updated March 2015). 8220;of Dannebrog it is known, it fell from heaven down traditional Danish folk song. Many Danes also observe the American Independence day with the Dannebrog flying next to the stars and stripes to celebrate the strong ties between the United States and Denmark. Map image sourced from:. Http:/ upload.wiki...
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20160209_185549 | American Chimæra
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Discussing history, appraisals, collecting, science, music, and everything in between. February 9, 2016. February 2016 New Moon. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out.
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November | 2015 | American Chimæra
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Discussing history, appraisals, collecting, science, music, and everything in between. Star Wars Awakens: Force or Farce? November 22, 2015. Okay As a ten-year-old kid and long before I learned to appreciate Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke’s. 2001: A Space Odyssey. How simple life once was. Fans can be an extreme and wonderful kind of crazy. In spite of knowing that universe doesn’t make perfect sense, some still try to project order and make it make sense. Nutters, right? The War of the Worlds.
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May | 2015 | American Chimæra
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Discussing history, appraisals, collecting, science, music, and everything in between. A Voice from Missouri’s Artful Past: Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975). May 29, 2015. May 31, 2015. One of my more unusual historical research projects occurred during summer 2011, and involved what was thought to be an unpublished 1960’s audio interview with Missouri Regionalist artist Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975). I brought the reels and transcripts back to my home recording studio and discovered – with horror &...
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Discussing history, appraisals, collecting, science, music, and everything in between. Vincent van Gogh’s Letter to G. Albert Aurier, 10 or 11 February 1890. June 1, 2015. June 1, 2015. In retrospect I think we went a bit overboard for him in terms of presentation, but the experience did produce a few essays by yours truly for inclusion with the auction lot descriptions, and for some reason I’m thinking they’ll make good blog fodder. 8211; G. Albert Aurier, Mercure de France, January 1890. G Albert Aurie...
