The Hermes Press is leaking slowly reproductions of the famous comic strip titled “Terry and the Pirates.” The talented Milton Caniff created this innovate and artful adventure comic strip in 1934 and continued it until 1944. George Wunder continued the strip until 1973. In this volume are three rather mediocre stories of Terry and his […]
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S. Martin Shelton’s Upcoming Novel
During the chaos that was China in 1935, Randall Kendrick, a wealthy American collector of fine oriental art, and his savvy daughter, Ingrid, embark on an adventurous quest to purchase a cache of extremely rare Ming yellow porcelains. General Wu Pei-fu, the vicious warlord of Kansu Province, offers the porcelains for sale to the highest bidder. Traveling with Kendrick is the expatriate […]
Book Review: Forgotten Ally by Rana Mitter
Rana Mitter has his premise exactly correct. The 1937-1945 war in China is largely unknown and not long remembered. In 1943, Allied leaders decided that the campaign in China was second tier in their long-term plan to defeat the Axis Powers—Germany, Italy, Japan, and other minor players. Yet the Sino-Japanese war was critical to our […]
The Sun’s Energy
The folderol re global warming, i.e. climate change, focuses, on-the-whole, on man’s pollution of the atmospheric. I would suggest that this notion is misguided. All energy and life on our planet emanates from the sun—a cauldron of nuclear fusion (H-bombs). Let’s explore how much of the sun’s energy reaches the earth—93 millions-miles distant. Astrophysicists calculate […]
Thoughts About D-Day, 6 June 1944
We thank and honor the men who landed on the Normandy beaches on June 6th 1944. All are heroes. I was fifteen years old when we heard a radio announcer blurt that the Allies had landed on the beaches in northern France. Involved were 130,000 Allied soldiers from USA, Britain, Canada, and the Free French. There was […]
BOOK REVIEW: The Guns of Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944 to 1945 Volume III by Rick Atkinson
The Guns of Last Light, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2013, 877 pp. Contents, 29 maps, photographs, Notes, 167 pp.; Selected Sources, 28 pp,; Acknowledgements, 6 pp.; Index, 26 pp. Volume Three of Atkinson’s liberation trilogy details the exploits of the United States Army in North Africa, Italy, and Western Europe during World War […]
Captain America Movie Review
Marvel Productions. Kevin Feige, Producer; Anthony Russo and Joe Russo, Directors. Staring: Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson, and Scarlett Johansson. 136 minutes. A special effects extravaganza with a plot as thin as a wet tissue, best describes this “moving picture.” (I hesitate to use the term.) And move it does—all the time, all over the […]
Malaysia Flight #370: People’s Republic of China’s Search Activities
We’re now in the 40th day of the disappearance of Malaysia Flight 370. There were 228 passengers onboard—152 were Chinese citizens. Accordingly, the People’s Republic of China has an extraordinary interest in locating the missing aircraft—to maintain national prestige and to assuage the families of the missing. Daily, over 200 family members are pressing Malaysian […]
Malaysia Flight 370 New Information?
Perhaps, maybe, possibly, if the “kreek don’t rise,” the searchers might have enough apocryphal evidence to conclude tentatively that Flight 370 is at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. Searchers estimate is position is located within 16,000 square nautical miles. This center of this area is about 1,500 nautical miles west of Perth “down under.” […]
Malaysian Flight #370…What Next?
This is the 38th day of the search Malaysia Flight 370. Yesterday, eleven aircraft and “about” as many ships were searching in an area about 24,000 square-miles: In an area located about 1,400 miles northwest of Perth. (The search area seems to change almost daily.) Here’s the update: the searchers have not heard any pings […]