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  • World War II posters frequently emphasized Victory or home gardens to supply U.S. citizens with some of their food.  It is spring.  The economy looks like it is in for...

    Dig For Victory

    World War II posters frequently emphasized Victory or home gardens to supply U.S. citizens with some of their food.  It is spring.  The economy looks like it is in for...

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  • Weekly presentation of art by great grandpa Dirck Hals.  A Merry Company.

    Dirck Hals Art ~ Week 4

    Weekly presentation of art by great grandpa Dirck Hals.  A Merry Company.

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  • Advertising campaigns have always been inventive.  Enter the 1930’s advertisement for Byrrh Wine.  Black cats always cause trouble in mythology, so obviously, one should be the cause of the collapse...

    Save the Byrrh

    Advertising campaigns have always been inventive.  Enter the 1930’s advertisement for Byrrh Wine.  Black cats always cause trouble in mythology, so obviously, one should be the cause of the collapse...

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  • War.  It always seems to be war that creates a recorded history about otherwise obscure locations in the world.   It is true about the Balaklava region of the Ukraine in...

    The Calvary at Balaklava

    War.  It always seems to be war that creates a recorded history about otherwise obscure locations in the world.   It is true about the Balaklava region of the Ukraine in...

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  • Weekly presentation of art by great grandpa Dirck Hals.

    Dirck Hals Art ~ Week 3

    Weekly presentation of art by great grandpa Dirck Hals.

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  • With their tours completed and enough points to qualify for rotation back to the states, a group of G.I.’s express their delight in anticipation of leaving La Harve on 25...

    Heading Home from Le Harve

    With their tours completed and enough points to qualify for rotation back to the states, a group of G.I.’s express their delight in anticipation of leaving La Harve on 25...

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  • Apparently, advertisers and tobacco companies in 1896 were crazy.  Imagine asking your wife to stop by the tobacconist to buy a plug of Battle Ax.  According to the 4 July...

    Battle Ax Plug

    Apparently, advertisers and tobacco companies in 1896 were crazy.  Imagine asking your wife to stop by the tobacconist to buy a plug of Battle Ax.  According to the 4 July...

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  • Crazy people jumping out of perfectly good airplanes have always fascinated me.   Modern technology tends to keep them alive to repeat the process time after time inmost cases. However, historically,...

    France ~ The First Parachute

    Crazy people jumping out of perfectly good airplanes have always fascinated me.   Modern technology tends to keep them alive to repeat the process time after time inmost cases. However, historically,...

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  • Weekly presentation of art by great grandpa Dirck Hals.

    Dirck Hals Art ~ Week 2

    Weekly presentation of art by great grandpa Dirck Hals.

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  • Apparently, even the original design of umbrellas weren’t  designed to withstand a gust of wind from underneath.  Centuries later, we see that not even a priest could rescue a poor...

    The Winds Must Blow

    Apparently, even the original design of umbrellas weren’t  designed to withstand a gust of wind from underneath.  Centuries later, we see that not even a priest could rescue a poor...

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