𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚖𝚙𝙻𝚊𝚋

USS TRIPOLI LPH-10, in dry dock after running into an Iraqi mine in February of 1991.

USS TRIPOLI LHA-7 is on its way to the Persian Gulf carrying 31st MEU, I'm told.

Anyone remember what happened to USS TRIPOLI LPH-10 during the Gulf War in February, 1991?

It just hit me.

"I’LL PROBABLY FLY UNTIL IT KILLS ME"

Pioneer Aviator Eugene Burton Ely
In early 1910, former racecar driver and chauffeur Eugene Burton Ely was a virtually unknown car salesman
in Portland, Oregon.

BY 1911 Ely WAS WORLD FAMOUS.

#aviation #aviationhistory

#PostboxSaturday at the Pantheon

Amazing story.. great thread.

"The genealogies of the poor are soon forgotten, because their deeds are seldom interesting enough to become matters of history, while few of the names of the great in their generation could have little more written under them than a record of their vanity." /12

A red postbox next to a dry stone wall with mist over the Langdales Pikes in the Lake District.

Mist over the Langdales and a bright red postbox.
#LakeDistrict
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekJforJuxtaposition
#PostboxSaturday
#Landscape
#Photography

An eight-page memo, dated March 9 and effective immediately, limits the use of wire services, bars comics and other syndicated features and states that content must be consistent with “good order and discipline,” a phrase borrowed from the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

US mint unveils new dime design—but one detail is missing The 250th anniversary dime replaces the Roosevelt design and removes the olive branch from the eagle, a long‑standing symbol of peace.

Another warning sign...
"While the new reverse features a bald eagle in flight clutching arrows in its left talon, one familiar symbol is absent—the olive branch traditionally held in the bird’s right talon"

www.newsweek.com/us-mint-unve...

“Dispute”, 20x30cm, Mixed Media on Paper, 2013

Have done similar with duplicate stamps.

1900年頃（ファスリ歴1310） ハイダラーバード藩王国1/4アンナはがき c. 1944 (Fasli year 1310) Hyderabad State (Nizam’s Dominions) 1/4 anna postcard

1900年頃（ファスリ歴1310）
ハイダラーバード藩王国1/4アンナはがき

c. 1944 (Fasli year 1310)
Hyderabad State (Nizam’s Dominions)
1/4 anna postcard

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)

U.S.URGES AGREEMENT ON TOGOLAND BY JULY (Published 1951)

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.

Papier ou numérique : "Aucun autre choix" ? Blog au style personnel sur la philatélie, les timbres, parfois les billets de banque et la numismatique.

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.