Happy (woulda coulda shoulda) 71st Birthday Jerry Garcia

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Emperor Peter I's Russian Beard Tax

By Jack Brummet, American beard owner

“In 1705, Emperor Peter I of Russia instituted a beard tax to modernize the society of Russia following European models. Those who paid the tax were required to carry a “beard token”.  This was a copper or silver token with a Russian Eagle on one side and on the other, the lower part of a face with nose, mouth, whiskers, and beard. It was inscribed with two phrases: “the beard tax has been taken” and “the beard is a superfluous burden”.” [From Wikipedia]

1705:  Beard Tax Token:

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Drawing: Faces No. 526 (scratchboard)

By Jack Brummet

[Scratchboard, digitally reversed]

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The International Space Station Passes By The Moon

By Jack Brummet, Stellar Ed.

A Romanian astrophotographer, Maximilian Teodorescu. recent used a Maksutov telescope to photograph the International Space Station passing in front of the moon in daylight. Wow.  He shot the photograph with a Canon 550D--an ISO 800 image with a shutter speed of 1/1250s.

The International Space Station flies about 220 miles over the earth, or, a three hour drive in your Honda, if it could drive straight up.

The international space station zoomed up a bit (image courtesy of NASA/JPL):

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Adolph Hitler's Skull

By Jack Brummet, History Ed.

This image is an X-ray of Adolph Hitler's head, presumably shot sometime after April 30th, 1945, when the allies located his body following his suicide. The dark areas around the mouth show his crowns and fillings. . .

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Other recent ATIT articles on Adolph Hitler:

http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/2010/06/sole-recording-of-hitler-in-private.html

http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/2008/11/one-grape-short-adolph-hitler-was.html

http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/2008/07/adolph-hitlers-return-to-berlin.html

http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/2008/04/on-this-day-63-years-ago-adolph-hitler.html

http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/2007/05/unknown-hitler-party-unveiled.html

http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/2005/09/sixty-six-years-ago-today-hitler.html

http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/2010/07/mea-culpa-we-did-it-too-dozens-of.html

http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/2008/11/parallels-between-hitlers-bunker-and.html

http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/2008/01/adolph-hitler-meets-miami-vice.html

http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/2012/10/heil-honey-im-home-twisted-tv-pilot.html

http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/2011/08/great-britains-attempt-to-turn-adolf.html

http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/2006/08/devil-made-them-do-it-says-vatican.html

http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/2013/06/is-joseph-goebbels-photobombing-adolph.html

http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-adolph-hitler-tea-kettle.html

http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/2011/07/from-nothing-is-cool-hitlers-take-on.html

http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/2010/10/twisted-halloween-costumes-some-images.html

http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/2007/09/sure-wed-invite-hitler-to-speak-says.html

http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/2007/09/hitler-youth-halloween-costume.html

http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/2007/03/drawing-of-adolph-hitler-made-using.html

http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/2006/08/identikit-fun-composite-drawing-of.html

http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/2013/07/hitlers-face-appears-in-pizza-box.html

http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/2013/07/a-bird-on-adolph-hitlers-shoulder.html

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Drawing: Faces No. 253

By Jack Brummet

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Poem: Dream of goodness

By Jack Brummet

We edge toward goodness;
The time of mindless division
Draws to an end.

We shuffle toward the day
We throw the rifles down
And Moslem, Christian, Jew, atheist,

Infidel, Catholic and Baptist
Stand together,
Shuck the bonds of money, oil,

Lust, ambition, and madness,
And give each other bear hugs
As we watch the leaders

Who trundled off
Onto a boat that takes them away
To that cold island far across the sea.
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Drawing: Faces No. 525 - the interview team

By Jack Brummet

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ATTI Reheated (from 2004): Disclaimers

By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Editor

From ATIT in November 2004. . .this is one of our favorite lists. We collected various disclaimers for years and published this during the first month of All This Is That's existence.

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Faces No. 524: Scratchboard faces

by Jack Brummet

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Faces No. 520a - scratchboard: waiting room

By Jack Brummet

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Drawing: Faces No. 521 - Employment Security Waiting Room

By Jack Brummet

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