Multi-purpose food
Man, what a rabbit hole I got dropped into. Ever do one of those things where you look up one item on the internet and it leads to information about a related item and then to another and before long...
View ArticleVideo – American Experience: The Great Famine
Watched a fascinating little documentary off of Netflix the other day…it was a documentary on the American Relief Administration and their work in the Russian Famine of 1921. (PBS’ American Experience:...
View ArticleDepression Project
I’m sitting here at the shop, watching through the window as the power company guy wanders the neighborhood hanging disconnect notices on businesses doors. I suppose there might be a recovery going on...
View ArticleArticle – A Profitable Vestige of Cold War Precaution
Besides being a historical curiosity, this forgotten room carries a tangible benefit — a tax break that has saved the Lagos thousands of dollars over the years. They are one of the few remaining...
View ArticleSemantics
Remember guys…we’re celebrating Independence Day, not the 4th of July. (Although given recent .gov shenanigans the pendulum seems to be swinging from independence to dependence, but that’s another...
View ArticleLink – Photo tour of Soviet era shelter
Well, here’s something you dont see everyday. An extremely well preserved fallout shelter from the Soviet era. I’m running both links through Google’s translator since, as they said in ‘Transformers’,...
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Guns – The AAI CAWS project
Military auto shotguns have been dabbled with for a while, and one of the more interesting projects was the CAWS project. Special shotgun rounds, special shotgun. It never really got off the ground but...
View ArticlePearl Harbor Day
It’s Pearl Harbor Day… a good reminder that sometimes things happen that you just were not anticipating at all. (Unless, of course, you’re FDR and need to jumpstart a failed economy.) There are...
View ArticleArticle – Wisconsin family discovers fully-stocked fallout shelter in their...
Still have some Hardigg cases if anyone wants….. ====================================== For more than a decade after they moved into their house in Neenah, Wisconsin, the Zwick family knew they had a...
View ArticleMan finds lost German bunker after finding old map
You know, when i go to gun shows and find things like old World War Two uniforms and such, I never find anything cool in the pockets. But some guy in England found a map that led him to a massive...
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