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Monday, August 25, 2014
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Singing for Thanksgiving Dinner - Atomic Cocktail (1945)
Something to go with that turkey and gravy? How about an Atomic Cocktail as shaken by our resident mixologist, Mr. Slim Gaillard and his Quartet.
Monday, August 18, 2014
Monday, August 11, 2014
Sunday, August 10, 2014
August Full Moon - Moon Moths
August's full moon is upon us, warm and faintly melancholy, drunk and recognizing summer's doom is at hand.
I have a love of Art Nouveau and that led me to choose this sheet music cover for August's full moon. Moon Moths was, as you can see, composed by Albert Kussner, a man who I can find very little information about. Apparently he composed classical music (two opuses Loves Mystery, and Woodland Flowers), but I couldn't find a recording of any of them online.
The cover does remind me of the Luna Moth, though. Occasionally I'll see one of them flitting about the lakeside or, ghost-like, passing in front of my headlights on a summer night. Or maybe they're not actually moths at all...
Saturday, August 9, 2014
The End of World War II - 69th Anniversary of the Bombing of Nagasaki
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| Mushroom Cloud over Nagasaki as seen from Koyagi-jima on August 9, 1945 |
On August 9, 1945, at 11:01, the American B29A Superfortress piloted by Major Charles W. Sweeney opened his bomb bay doors and dropped Fat Man over the Japanese industrial center of Nagasaki. The weapon exploded at an altitude of 1650 feet above a tennis court located half way between the Mitsubishi Steel and Arms Works and the Mitsubishi-Urakami Ordnance Works which made torpedoes for the Japanese war effort. The resulting 21 kiloton explosion generated temperatures of over 7000˚F and winds reaching 624 mph, vaporizing its victims and reducing much of the city to burning rubble in an atomic flash. Estimates of the death toll range from 39000 to 80000, and six days later the Japanese surrendered, ending World War II.
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