Abdul's official "The past is a foreign country" thread.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Tue Apr 07, 2020 5:00 am

Before they got the kinks out of a firing squad.

– J.D.

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Tue Apr 07, 2020 10:02 pm

Hi ed!

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Wed Apr 08, 2020 12:00 am

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Fri Apr 10, 2020 3:41 am

Constantinople, ca. 1890.
(Seems to be the Galata bridge, hasn't changed much.)

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Wed Apr 15, 2020 3:08 am

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Thu Apr 16, 2020 2:13 am

Zitkala Sa, an American Sioux in 1898

Wikipedia wrote:Zitkála-Šá (1876–1938) (Lakota: Red Bird = Cardinal (bird)), also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, her missionary-given and later married name, was a Yankton Dakota Sioux writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and political activist. She wrote several works chronicling her struggles with cultural identity and the pull between the majority culture she was educated within and her Dakota Sioux culture into which she was born and raised. Her later books were among the first works to bring traditional Native American stories to a widespread white English-speaking readership, and she has been noted as one of the most influential Native American activists of the 20th century.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Wed Apr 22, 2020 3:50 am

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Wed Apr 22, 2020 7:28 pm

Oh those whacky 50s

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Wed Apr 22, 2020 7:31 pm

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Wed Apr 22, 2020 7:32 pm

Probably not safe for work

But nobodies working

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Thu Apr 23, 2020 1:40 am

1967.

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Thu Apr 23, 2020 7:23 am

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Fri Apr 24, 2020 12:45 am

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sun Apr 26, 2020 12:58 am

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sun Apr 26, 2020 1:13 am

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Sun Apr 26, 2020 1:13 am

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Sun Apr 26, 2020 1:14 am

Samuel Langley built two successful steam-powered models of a flying machine he called an aerodrome. Aerodrome No. 5 flew 0.63 miles in May of 1896 and Aerodrome No. 6 flew three-quarters of a mile in November later that year.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sun Apr 26, 2020 9:45 pm

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Mon Apr 27, 2020 12:13 am

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Mon Apr 27, 2020 11:28 am

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue Apr 28, 2020 1:24 am

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue Apr 28, 2020 9:59 pm

Spoiler:

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Thu Apr 30, 2020 3:13 am

Kathmandu, Nepal, sixties.

Fid · Post by **Fid** » Thu Apr 30, 2020 3:48 am

Opinion of course, but bull shit.

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Thu Apr 30, 2020 7:46 am

https://file.wikileaks.org/file/

All the wikileaks docs are free now.

(mistake? or deadman switch?)

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Thu Apr 30, 2020 7:48 am

https://file.wikileaks.org/file/us-ny-s ... e-2005.pdf

Relevant to now, but looks like ancient history

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Fri May 01, 2020 2:01 am

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sun May 03, 2020 1:49 am

ed · Post by ed » Sun May 03, 2020 2:03 am

Witness wrote: ↑Tue Apr 28, 2020 1:24 am

Those were the same trains I took to High School in the 60's. Outside, elevated tracks, never NEVER broke down, never late. AMERICAN and not a metric bolt in them. We knew how to build'em. Not like today where lily livered fa (cont'd next page}

solely · Post by **solely** » Sun May 03, 2020 12:52 pm

Old broken down equipment is a way of sending a message to that community.

ed · Post by ed » Sun May 03, 2020 1:09 pm

Abdul Alhazred wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2020 12:27 pm
ed wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2020 2:03 am ... never NEVER broke down ...

I seem to recall standing on a platform of the now demolished downtown Brooklyn portion of the Myrtle during its last days.
When a train came in the whole station would rock back and forth.

The structure was too light to carry the standard Division B subway car, so they tore it down rather than invest in a set of new cars just for the Myrtle. Because the old ones were falling apart.

Mutatis mutandis Division A for the last remnant of the 3rd Avenue el in the Bronx, though the cars used at the end were not as picturesque as the Myrtle. They looked very much like cars on the rest of the IRT of the time though they were lighter.

Yes, it did shake a bit. I recall calling the MTA back in the day trying to find out how old those cars really were. Got a runaround.

Here is a stretch .. you recall the Raymond St jail off Navy Street?
I passed it when I went down there with my father to scout out Tech before I took the enterance exam. They tore it down before I started.
As I recall, the Harry Thaw was jailed there when they nabbed him for the murder of white. AND Thaw lived/hid in a place on 40th a block from where I worked at Y&R.

ed · Post by ed » Sun May 03, 2020 1:10 pm

solely wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2020 12:52 pm Old broken down equipment is a way of sending a message to that community.

I was at Pratt when my daughter was doing an internship one year, did not recognize the area at all.

shemp · Post by **shemp** » Sun May 03, 2020 11:23 pm

Abdul Alhazred wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2020 1:20 pm
ed wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2020 1:09 pm As I recall, the Harry Thaw was jailed there ...
A bit before your time Old Boy.

Ed was his cellmate at Matteawan.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue May 05, 2020 1:18 am

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Tue May 05, 2020 7:07 am

The Humanity!!!11eleventy11!

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Wed May 06, 2020 12:08 am

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Thu May 07, 2020 2:15 am

shemp · Post by **shemp** » Thu May 07, 2020 2:08 pm

A foreign country indeed!

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Fri May 08, 2020 2:13 am