President Dwight D. Eisenhower was a painter (as we have also recently discovered about former President George W. Bush - click here to see his paintings).
Ike in the studio
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Three paintings by Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower
by Jack Brummet, Studio Arts Ed.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower was a painter (as we have also recently discovered about former President George W. Bush - click here to see his paintings).
President Dwight D. Eisenhower was a painter (as we have also recently discovered about former President George W. Bush - click here to see his paintings).
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Faces No. 366 - a 24 second no-lift sketch: I didn't really need that final whiskey
By Jack Brummet
I try these sketches every once in a whiile--the idea is you draw rapidly, and never lift your pen from the paper. . .
I try these sketches every once in a whiile--the idea is you draw rapidly, and never lift your pen from the paper. . .
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Poem: A touch of evil
By Jack Brummet
Darkness, having been eliminated,
Darkness, having been eliminated,
furtively obtrudes again.
Does the wind blow over the earth
or does it blow under heaven?
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Does the wind blow over the earth
or does it blow under heaven?
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U.S. and Nepalese regulations on Sasquatch hunts
By Jack Brummet, Unexplained Phenomena Ed.
In 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay climbed Everest, and reported seeing large tracks. In 1954, the Daily Mail (UK) funded a sixteen-week “Snowman Expedition” to Everest to look for clues. The mid-fifties were when the search for the Abominable Snowman a/k/a Bigfoot a/k/a Sasquatch a/k/a Yeti cranked up to a fever pitch.
Enough Yeti expeditions were launched that the Nepalese and U.S. Governments issued a set of regulations for Bigfoot hunters and researchers. “Regulations Governing Mountain Climbing Expeditions in Nepal—Relating to Yeti,” was issued from the American Embassy in Kathmandu on November 30, 1959.
From The U.S. National Archives:
Regulations Governing Mountain Climbing Expeditions in Nepal - Relating to Yeti"; UD-WW, 1454, , Box 252, Accession #64-9-0814, folder 5.1 Political Situation - General, File ended Dec 31, 1959; Records of the Agency for International Development; Record Group 286; National Archives.
In 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay climbed Everest, and reported seeing large tracks. In 1954, the Daily Mail (UK) funded a sixteen-week “Snowman Expedition” to Everest to look for clues. The mid-fifties were when the search for the Abominable Snowman a/k/a Bigfoot a/k/a Sasquatch a/k/a Yeti cranked up to a fever pitch.
Enough Yeti expeditions were launched that the Nepalese and U.S. Governments issued a set of regulations for Bigfoot hunters and researchers. “Regulations Governing Mountain Climbing Expeditions in Nepal—Relating to Yeti,” was issued from the American Embassy in Kathmandu on November 30, 1959.
From The U.S. National Archives:
click to enlarge
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Monday, February 25, 2013
Poem: The Jitters
By Jack Brummet
The 1950s were about
The American Jitters:
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Huntley Brinkley
The Thing
Ed Murrow
The Blob
Fidel
Godzilla
Senator Joe McCarthy
Gorgo
Who will own the moon
Wild-eyed Nikita pounded his loafers on TV
And promised to bury us
The Cold War ignited on Ike's watch
Jack Kennedy inherited the residue
Alarms shrieked duck and cover
Dad was in the basement
Sandbagging the jam closet
And caching beans and gasoline
We scared ourselves for good
And grew up to fear nothing
But nothing itself.
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The American Jitters:
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Huntley Brinkley
The Thing
Ed Murrow
The Blob
Fidel
Godzilla
Senator Joe McCarthy
Gorgo
Who will own the moon
Wild-eyed Nikita pounded his loafers on TV
And promised to bury us
The Cold War ignited on Ike's watch
Jack Kennedy inherited the residue
Alarms shrieked duck and cover
Dad was in the basement
Sandbagging the jam closet
And caching beans and gasoline
We scared ourselves for good
And grew up to fear nothing
But nothing itself.
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Sunday, February 24, 2013
Hanford back in the news and an "air-conditioned atomic suit"
By Jack Brummet, Energy Editor
With Hanford back in the news due to the discovery of leaking radioactive waste containers, I remembered this great picture I had stashed away. This is a tearsheet from Popular Science magazine that I found in a drawer of ephemera at a bookstore.
The piece shows a "girl" with a Geiger counter, in an "atomic suit inflated with conditioned air" about to do her job at the Hanford site. The Hanford Atomic Site occupies 586 square miles in Benton County, in central Washington, just off the Columbia River. It was established in 1943 during World War II as the Hanford Engineer Works, part of the Manhattan Project, to provide plutonium for the development of nuclear weapons. Plutonium from Hanford was used to build the first nuclear bomb (the one tested in New Mexico), and used to build Fat Man, the bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. Hanford is now a storage facility for nuclear waste, and the only operating nuclear plant in Washington state.
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