A Century of Atmospheric Warfare: 1915-2015
☛ Illustrated London News: “A German Gas-Attack Seen From The Air: a remarkable ‘snap’”, vol. 147, no. 4000, Dec. 18, 1915, p. 789. Cropped version retrieved from JF Ptak Science Books. A wider version can be retrieved here. April 22, 2015 marks the 100th anniversary of the Second Battle of Ypres. More precisely, it marks […]
35 years ago: The Three Mile Island accident
☛ National Archives: President Jimmy Carter leaving [Three Mile Island] for Middletown, Pennsylvania., 04/01/1979. Identifier:540021. Public domain. • • • On March 28, 1979, the Three Mile Island Unit 2 (TMI-2) reactor suffered a partial meltdown. The incident was rated at Level 5 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale. Although the exact health […]
“Tereska Draws Her Home” by David Seymour, 1948
☛ LIFE: “Tereska Draws Her Home”, photo by David Seymour, Vol. 25, No. 26, December 27, 1948, p. 16. The original caption reads as follow: Children’s wounds are not all outward. Those made in the mind by years of sorrow will take years to heal. In Warsaw, at an institute which cares for some of […]
Coexistence and antagonism: notes on global civil war
☛ YouTube: “Taksim’de Gaz saldırısının içinde kalan Kadının acı çığlıkları” uploaded on June 12, 2013 by Keneth Minovski. Still @ 00:53. [UPDATE–February 14, 2014] The link to the video is dead and Keneth Minovski’s channel has been closed. Another copy of the video can be found here. • • • “Caught in the Cloud: The […]
