the songs you've sung on a braver day
Salutations, comrades.
This is the blog of a mobile fungus colony.
Expect for there to be a focus upon the culture, arts and history of the 20th century.
a nagy háború: The Lover
Though I have had friends
And a beautiful love
There is one lover I await above all.
She will not come to me
In the time of soft plum-blossoms
When the air is gay with birds singing
And the sky is a delicate caress;
She will come
From the midst of a vast clamour
With a…
Captain Michelson with the mascot of the 2/2nd Battalion, ‘Tim’ the turtle.
Three Germans doing a wheelie in a sidecar, 1940s. http://t.co/lCTATyqJ5i From Twitter.com/History_Pics
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50 years ago, at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, second-in-command Vasilli Arkhipov of the Soviet submarine B-59 refused to agree with his Captain’s order to launch nuclear torpedos against US warships and setting off what might well have been a terminal superpower nuclear war.
The US had been dropping depth charges near the submarine in an attempt to force it to surface, unaware it was carrying nuclear arms. The Soviet officers, who had lost radio contact with Moscow, concluded that World War 3 had begun, and 2 of the officers agreed to ‘blast the warships out of the water’. Arkhipov refused to agree – unanimous consent of 3 officers was required and thanks to him, the world was saved from being scarred badly.
His story is finally being told the BBC is airing a documentary on it.
thinking for yourself.
might just save the god damn world.
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