ACCORDING TO SAM
Mark Twain has a thought about: WAR
“An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war.”
- Glances at History, 1906
#quote #MarkTwain
Ik ben die achterlijke machopraat zo beu. Eén enkele gezonken tanker alleen al zou een ongelofelijke milieuramp zijn. En het is natuurlijk makkelijk praten vanuit zo'n propagandastudio waar je eigen leven niet op het spel staat.
Decatur
March 9, 1776: Stephen Decatur, a privateer of Maryland, is approved by Congress to sail to Hispaniola with goods to trade for arms and gunpowder. He is the future father of Stephen Decatur Jr., an early hero of the U.S. Navy.
I can't compete with this.
Chloe L. Ireton - Plotting for Freedom
An Enslaved Couple’s Intimate Letters in the Age of Atlantic Slavery
À paraître en novembre chez Hurst
Battle of the Ironclads
On this day in history, 164 years ago, March 9, 1862, the second day of the Battle of Hampton Roads saw the first battle between two ironclad warships. (1/5)
Mar 9, 1951 NYT The US urged Britain and France to arrive at a workable solution of the four-year-old problem posed by the Ewe tribal peoples of Togoland. The issue centers on a desire of the Ewes to unify their lands, now divided between British and French Togoland
www.nytimes.com/1951/03/09/a...
The first thing I thought while reading your post is, "why do the satirists get to have all the fun?"
signed,
-a guy that uses punctuation as a medium of abstract art in a classical post haste sense preceded by the complete satisfaction of getting a single thought through a keyboard alone.
4 weeks of effort, and the tenacious efforts of one U.W. student... this original 1860 map of South Africa is one ferry journey away from becoming a permanent postal history reference point around here.
“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
— President John F. Kennedy
“REALLY?”
#WASP Selma Kantor Cronan 44-W-5-T
(6 May 1913 - 17 April 2002)
Women Airforce Service Pilots
#WomenInAviation #WomenMilAv8rs #WomenAtWar2 #WomenOfAviation #womenpilots #WomenintheAir #WWII
13e Bataillon de Chasseurs Alpins en route to Norway aboard the transport ship Ville d'Oran. April 1940.
Black and white portrait of Katharina, wearing a cap and a high collar.
For International Women's Day, here is Katharina Schütz Zell of Strasbourg (1497-1562), the first known female Protestant reformer. She wrote a number of evangelical pamphlets calling for the reform of the church, despite the disapproval of her male colleagues, with whom she occasionally clashed.
Sur le blog : Papier ou numérique : "Aucun autre choix" ? Proposition de réponse par Park Chan-wook dans un film adapté du roman 'Le Couperet' de Donald Westlake.
guest star #postboxsaturday
sebphilatelie.blogspot.com/2026/03/papi...
Postwoman Jane Preston
“How is it that you live, and what is it you do?”
That quote from William Wordsworth was brought to mind when I saw this photo of postwoman Jane Preston. She served Cockerham, Lancashire for 50 years until her death in 1944.
#InternationalWomensDay
gestern, heute, morgen ✊
“The sky over Tehran is black. Like the night sky…” a friend
“i cannot breath, I am breathing through a wet towel”. My mum
10.000.000 people are being choked to death. Tehran is surrounded by mountains. There is very little wind.
Coole foto.
Foto aus'm Archiv. Begräbniswald auf der Steilküste in Weissenhaus, Sonne scheint durch die Bäume auf den Boden.
Moin, Sonntach!
Heute ist ja beten wat los: Saharastaub, Internationaler Frauentag, Okuli, Wahl in BW, der Ätna ist ausgebrochen (1669), Duisburg und Düsseldorf werden besetzt (1921), die Sowjets haben die Atombombe (1950).
Ansonsten: Trist, bewölkt und staubig. Aber die Sonne wird kommen.
It's the 8 March, so let's celebrate this cover, sent 201 years ago today, to Rev. Bulwer, who discovered the petrel that still bears his name.
#ornithology #philately
2026 will be an important year to be reminded of his work.
I am looking forward to your posts and perspective!
All the best to your efforts.
Scott Catalogue # C-43 (1930)
Scott Catalogue # C-60 (1935)
1930 Persia, 1935 Iran.
Somewhat complex, but simply put, in 1935 Reza Shah Pahlavi asks the League of Nations to use the term Iran formally; as reflected by the two identical stamps below,- the original issuance in 1930, and the 1935 overprint.
That was more of a shout out to their archival department and the digitization work they're doing. Sorry if that led to a bit of confusion.
You've had me thinking of Paine lately though. I've viewed him as a purist in the sense of the Age of Enlightenment, intent and reasoning. Any thoughts?
An FDR and Farley era souvenir sheet...87 years later; still quite relaxing to look at.
Persia, 1929.
Reza Shah Pahlavi. (Reza Khan)
rofl. welcome to the club.
I like your mom already!
Dating back so far into antiquity, and with so much history involved, I thought it might be a good idea to scratch the surface.
All that snow finally melting?
Yeah, shout out to Boston College eh?
I don't often research Paine per se, but do consider myself, more or less, as an OCD / total immersion history buff / with a tenuous grasp on the present.
-sorry that link was so wonky. I also consider myself quite technologically challenged.
The S.C. (455) overprint ; (S.C.714)
Persia, 1926.
The Qajar Dynasty, has come to an end.
Reza Khan, or Reza Shah Pahlavi would rule from 1925 until 1941.
The Persian inscription, سلطنت پهلوی reads; Pahlavi Dynasty.
