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I'm getting excited about the new Star Wars film because I'm hearing a lot about how JJ Abrams is sticking very closely to the aesthetic of the original trilogy.
As a result, I designed a seriously old school, early-80s style teaser poster for the new film just for fun.
Map of the Japanese POW camps along the construction route of the Burma-Siam railway.
Illustration in Behind Bamboo by Rohan Rivett 1946.
Rowan Rivett (1917-1977), was an Australian war correspondent based in Malaya covering the Japanese advance in WW2. Following the fall of Singapore in 1942, he escaped in a ship which was subsequently attacked and sunk by the Japanese. With some companions he trekked through the jungle, and while attempting to escape by canoe was captured by the Japanese and sent to three and a half years of ‘hell’ in captivity in Burma, working on the ‘Burma railway’, and elsewhere. Finally freed in 1945 he wrote this explicit account of the cruelty and depravity of the Japanese forces and his great respect for the spirit of the Australian, British and American soldiers and the Burmese captives.
Published by Angus and Robertson, Sydney. Cream boards with illustrated jacket. 400 pages, 15cm x 22cm. First edition with illustrations by Flip Relf and Jack Chalker.
From Day 1 of the redesign. For more info on this project: ronreason.com/designwithreason/2013/03/11/the-redesigned-...
The only mulit-word country to begin with a vowel is United Arab Emirates (UAE) so it must go in cell C5. See the game note about East Timor.
A favourite from my own collection: this is a hybride between my 2 loveaffairs; Lego and Thunderbirds. This shows I'm not crazy; even Lego loves the spaceage of Gerry Anderson! Why? Because in 1965 Tb was suddenly hot in the UK, on tv, in the shops, with boys&girls. Gerry was the only one who used the term '2065', a thousand years later then the actual days the lived back then. Lego used that popularity in this ad to underline you could make even spaceships with Lego. This is almost the only outing into space by Lego, until about 8 years later with their own range of NASA-stuff in blue&white.
Nova genera ac species plantarum, quas in regno Chilensi Peruviano et in terra Amazonica.
Lipsiae [Leipzig] : Sumptibus F. Hofmeister, 1835-45..
I have driven by these ruins many times on my way to Seven Springs. Today I decided to slow down and explore.
www.azcentral.com/travel/hiking/articles/2009/01/15/20090...
One of the great things about hiking in Arizona is the perspective it gives you.
Sooner or later you'll come across a few potsherds, a panel of weathered petroglyphs or even a stretch of low rock walls. When you do, you can't help but reflect upon the transient nature of so much human endeavor.
A thousand years ago, a network of Hohokam villages stretched across much of what is now southern Arizona. The Hohokam, ancestors of today's Pima Indians, grew corn, beans and squash, and they harvested what they could from native plants such as mesquite and prickly pear. They hunted small game, traded goods with their neighbors and designed and built an elaborate system of canals, which later became the basis of the modern Valley.
The remnants of one of their villages stand on a hilltop nearly 10 miles east of Cave Creek. The Sears-Kay Ruin, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, takes its name from J.M. Sears, who founded the Sears-Kay Ranch in the area in 1887. Archaeologists say the 40-room site once provided shelter for 100 people or so.
The ruins stand about halfway around a loop, overlooking the usually dry bed of Camp Creek. Signs throughout the ruins relate the history of the site, which was occupied from about 1050 to 1200. Most rooms - now just rows of rough rock walls a foot or two high - were built around open courtyards that were used for daily activities.
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This is an image I created using Adobe Illustrator for the 3D "3". I also used Adobe Photoshop for the space/landscape background and finishing touches on the "3".
This poster is one of a group we acquired in 2009, and all were printed by the Drogheda Independent. It reveals an active educational programme for young farmers in the Kildare area (and their unfortunate dates, presumably). There is still a thriving Balyna/Carbury Macra na Feirme group going to this day.
If you were still awake after 6 films (carefully noted as "Talkies") about mastitis, wheat and bees, then your reward was a Laurel and Hardy comedy...
Size: 50.5 x 38 cm
Date: Monday, 16 February 1942
Printed by: Drogheda Independent
NLI Ref.: EPH Acc. 873
Reproduction rights owned by the National Library of Ireland
Dutch detective of Havank (ps of Hans van der Kallen)- Het raadsel van de drie gestalten. Published by Bruna, Utrecht. in 1953 Cover illustration by Dick Bruna
"I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said"
A legendary slut monster that lurks in bars and strip clubs across the world. The beast is said to feed off the wallets of men, cheap wine and nachos. Because it wears a make-up mask to disguise its hideous face the Hogre can easily be confused with the common "Ho", but wake up with one of these snaggle toothed barbarians breathing on the side of your neck and you will know the difference. As fierce and cruel as these savages sound there is no reason to fear them because they have little or no intelligence which makes them easy for men to defeat. (urban dictionary, 2013)
Creator: Riverside Brewery Co. Ltd.
Title: Culmbacher Beer
Date: [c.1926-1935]
Extent: 1 label: printed ; (7.5x11.5cm)
Notes: From a collection of beer labels, stationery and Canadian breweriana donated by Lawrence C. Sherk.
Format: Label
Rights Info: No known restrictions on access
Repository: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 1A5, library.utoronto.ca/fisher