All over Australia and New Zealand, communities will gather around war memorials to remember those who have died in military service. We will listen to a speech, we will watch the laying of wreaths, we will recite the Ode to the Fallen, and we will listen to the Last Post. Later in the day we will watch those who survived, and those in service today, march to honour the dead. We will be reminded that such sacrifices should never be for unworthy causes.
history
those who do not know are doomed to repeat etc, besides it’s fascinating
Carping Corner (Historical Drama Division): The Tudors
There are many things for a history nerd to greatly enjoy about the lush 2007 miniseries of The Tudors, the first season of which is currently showing on cable here in Oz…but now the carping must commence!
Apollo 11: a stroll around the baseball field
NASA recently published an interesting map showing a map of the lunar excursions by Aldrin and Armstrong, superimposed over a standard baseball diamond. Image source: NASA (click link for high-res image) One of my invisible friends took one look and… Read More ›
Holy traditional family values, Batman!
This frame is from the 1959 Batman comic “The Marriage of Batman and Batwoman”: Via Eatliver.com. Description is in footnote 1. Lonely Gods expands on the rest of the story: Batwoman’s status as an inferior woman was most clearly stated… Read More ›
Turn-of-the-century futurism: “Hot And Cold Air From Spigots”
For those who like the Ladies’ Handbook of Home Treatment series, you’ll love this set of futuristic predictions from the Ladies’ Home Journal of 1901. [There’s a full text transcription here.] Metafilter users, despite their habitual and understandable scepticism, have… Read More ›
“It is a great mistake to allow the girl to attend lectures …”
Remember the Ladies’ Handbook of Home Treatment? It’s baaaack! For Teh Portly Dyke, I present: “On The Threshold of Womanhood: Puberty, or Adolescence”. A careful explanation of a mother’s responsibility to guide and manage her daughter’s fragile pubertal state, so… Read More ›
Historical scenes of sexual equality: must be fiction, or just some ritual
Bolded emphasis mine: In order to understand their relatively enlightened attitudes toward sexual equality, it is important to realise that the Egyptians viewed their universe as a complete duality of male and female. Giving balance and order to all things… Read More ›
“Older women […] are inclined to be cantankerous and fussy.”
Via Get Shouty: Danger! Women At Work! A 1943 Guide to Hiring Women, from Transportation Magazine. Scans of the original can be found at snopes [caution, pop-ups and such]. Eleven Tips on Getting More Efficiency Out of Women Employees There’s… Read More ›
Howard’s End on Four Corners
Quite rivetting. The irony of them racing off to the ABC for the prestige after years of slagging them as partisan won’t escape anyone, I’m sure. Transcript and streaming video [Flash] [Windows Media Player] on the Four Corners site. There’s… Read More ›
Anti-schmaltz, anti-saccharine Valentine linkfest
We were concentrating on more contemporary historical matters here in Oz, but yesterday was also Darwin Day. Women in “Free” Iraq Women Behind Bars (via Feministe) How cheap is your love? What would you tell your 14-year-old self? Quote Of… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 