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Thursday, December 31, 2009  


New Year's 1906:

Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland


Via Grantbridge Street and ilovecomix

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Tuesday, December 29, 2009  


Kick it off, Leon

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Sunday, December 27, 2009  


Sunday After Christmas Listening

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Post-Christmas Sunday Reading

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Friday, December 25, 2009  


Dear Santa Claus,

Sorry for the lack of cookies, but we have lots of carrots. :)

Try to finish the world fast!

From, Neddy


~ Note left last night

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Merry Christmas!

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Saturday, December 19, 2009  


Play GigsQuantcast

Los Straitjackets: "Yuletide Beat"

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Sunday, December 13, 2009  


Trudging off the field, 1962

Andy Robustelli, Dick Modzelewski, Jim Katcavage and Rosey Grier trudge off the field at Yankee Stadium during an Eagles-Giants game on Nov. 18, 1962. Photo by Dan Rubin ~ Via the NY Times Store

In a football mood lately. Big game tonight between the Giants and Eagles.

At the Internet Archive you can download an entire scanned copy of Barry Gottehrer's 1963 history The Giants of New York. Emlen Tunnell would approve.

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Irish Brigade leader's sword makes a return visit

Gen. Thomas Francis Meagher had been sentenced to hang, exiled to a penal colony in Tasmania, and hunted jaguars in Central America before he ever made it to Fredericksburg.

Once there, at age 37, he led the Irish Brigade's charge of the stone wall at Sunken Road during the 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg.

The sword that Meagher (pronounced "Mahr") is said to have carried during that battle took a similarly circuitous route--though without quite so much drama--before arriving in Fredericksburg just a few days before the 147th anniversary of the battle.

Meagher's sword will be on display for the next month at the Battlefield Visitor Center on Lafayette Boulevard.

Meagher's Irish Brigade has become the best-known unit to storm the Confederate stronghold at Marye's Heights on Dec. 13, 1862. Meagher lost nearly half of his men to Confederate fire as they crossed a field already littered with Union dead and wounded.
~ Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star

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Friday, December 11, 2009  


What the well dressed Republican is wearing:

Dick and Pat admire Gov. Herter's bowtie, 1956.

In today's Mass. Senate race news:

Howie Carr offers Scott Brown some Christmas advice. Orthodox priest Fr Peter-Michael Preble offers Brown an endorsement. And Brian Maloney offers him advice on how to win.

It must be said: Scott Brown is in some ways the most obviously worthy successor to Ted Kennedy.

Meantime, Ann Coulter takes the paint off Martha Coakley, who kept an innocent man in prison for political gain.

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Tuesday, December 08, 2009  



Alma de Maria Retablo

Alma de Maria
El Alma de Maria
N.S. de la Encarnacion
Concepcion Inmaculada
Nuestra Señora De La Concepción Inmaculada
The Soul of Mary
The Virgin Annunciate
The Virgin of the Dove

The doctrine of the Immaculate Conception was proclaimed by Pius IV in 1854. The title of "Nuestra Señora De La Concepción Inmaculada" may be properly assigned to a variety of Marian figures. These all refer to the purity of Mary, although they may appear in a milieu of different poses and allegories. Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception is shown here…as a young girl with a crown of roses, with her hands crossed over her heart, holding a dove, the symbol of the Holy Spirit, and staffs of roses and lilies to her chest, which represent her purity. She has a halo of stars around her head and clouds framing her.


~ Posted by Hessee to the Flickr set Mexican Retablos and Beyond

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Friday, December 04, 2009  


Peaux-Rouges

While significant majorities of actual Native Americans polled have responded they don't take offense at the Washington Redskins' nickname, the question has remained an issue for some who consider the name pejorative.

The Week Magazine collected 19 more-PC names that have been proposed for the team, including the Washington Jepziwok (Chippewa for "great athletes") and the Washington Matwesaso ("courageous" in the native dialect of the Nanticokes, dominant tribe of the Potomac region).

Irish Elk likes the "Washington Americans." No one could object to such a fitting name associated with the nation's capital, and since the Indian is a centuries-old allegory for America, they could keep the logo. (Maybe they could even add a few more feathers.)

Above: Turk Edwards by Goal Line Art via Redskins Football Card Museum.

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