Looks like something that should be hanging on the wall in Professor Jones' office.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/08/12/the_1931_histomap_the_entire_history_of_the_world_distilled_into_a_single.html
This thread needs music.
Don't play if potty language bothers you.
http://youtu.be/Ivn68kFrSgE
I’m a take your grandpa's style, I’m a take your grandpa's style
No for real, ask your grandpa, "Can I have his hand-me-downs?" (Thank you!)
The girls working the canals during WW2
Emma Smith remembers working on the canals in the Second World War, 1944
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/10231833/The-girls-working-the-canals-during-WW2.html
Look around at your rust belts and brown fields, America. We used to make stuff, but you traded it for walls of worthless crap in Costco.
Meanwhile, slavery.
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/santas-workshop/
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/03/world/asia/china-labor-camps...
Good plot twist, things would have probably devolved into an American version of the Red-White Civil War multi-factionalism. The bankers who approached Butler certainly weren't commies, and neither would any American Legion Army following Butler.
And since Twitch has long since left this coil...
For those following along in the Peanut Gallery, read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
(see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can%27t_Happen_Here )
Had Smedley Butler thrown in with them, or simply remained silent instead of looking like a fool in front of Congress, one wonders how...
The Ministry of Defence has put Brompton Road, a disused Underground station which housed the command bunker for London’s anti-aircraft defences during the Blitz, up for sale...
We interrupt this thread for a short musical interlude.
http://youtu.be/II4BCkGNtgs
You many continue now.
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f167/Lisa_Simpson/1942/June/0628/0628-invaders.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f167/Lisa_Simpson/1942/June/0628/0628-invaders2.jpg...
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