Downtown Dallas. The year is 1963. Across the street from the Hotel Adolphus and upstairs from a delicatessen – it is the famously infamous Carousel Club. Jack Ruby is your…
Tag: History
Launched in 1935 by Eastman Kodak, Kodachrome would soon become a very successful product for its maker. Kodachrome is a type of film that is called “color reversal film,” which…
Besides being a 1989 song from the New York City band Living Colour, a cult of personality is a particularly pervasive political tactic most often used by political regimes that…
True music fans will appreciate these rare Beatles photographs. And, if you can’t tell, this photo shoot set the norm for the now hackneyed obligatory band picture. This type of photograph…
Fascism is a form of radical authoritarian nationalism that came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe. The first known fascist movements emerged in Italy during World War I, before it spread to other European countries. Facism is opposed…
Punk is a subculture that originated in the mid 1970s in America, Australia and the United Kingdom. Punk embraces a wide base of ideologies and various forms of individual expression…
Central Planning (or, Economic Planning) refers to a coordinating mechanism outside the mechanisms of the free market. There are various types of planning procedures and different ways of conducting central planning. Central…
Curly Howard, born as Jerome Lester Horwitz (1903-1952), was one of the Three Stooges, along with brothers Moe Howard and Shemp Howard, and actor Larry Fine, although Curly was more…
These days, you just might be reconsidering your citizenship preferences. When the American expatriates of the 20th century hung out in the cafés of Paris, expatriation was easy. All you had…
Disgusted by the happenings in Washington and on Wall Street? Absolute power corrupts – absolutely. Still true. A character in the 1991 film Slacker called the Old Anarchist had some parting words for…