Knights Without Parachutes

Rilla of Ingleside: Military History for Girls It's not so difficult to get the average boy interested in World War 1 aviation (noisy engines, adventure, enemy attacks, etc.) If you want to get a girl interested, you might try giving her the last book in the Anne of Green Gables series, Rilla of Ingleside, which shows what the war was like on the home front, at least in Canada. (Interestingly different from the US; though the distance to the front was similar, for Canadians the war had been going on for almost 3 years at this point, while the US was just...

When the Bugs in New Technology Are Actually Deadly Maybe it makes sense that the US Army didn't want racecar drivers as pilots, thinking that combat was scary enough, and if the pilots actually understood their machines, they wouldn't fight. In a survey of the Cornell University records of Cornell aviators who died in WWI, very few of them actually died in anything that could be called combat. Many died of flu or its complications, but the rest died of some kind of aircraft accident, generally resulting from the fact that not only were the pilots new to flying, but also the airplane...

Picture the perfumes of Arabia, fragrant odors of musk and ambergris, gardens of a hundred different delights, rare and radiant damsels, trees laden with jewel-fruits, magic lamps, birds singing gloriously by crystal fountains, pearls, rubies, diamonds, ivory, and gold, Ali Baba, Aladdin, Sindbad, Harun er-Rashid, viziers, executioners, dervishes, genies/djinni, and of course princes and princesses.  They say she told a tale each night, for a thousand and one nights, to the king who feared no woman could be faithful, who executed each wife after the wedding night, except Scheherazade. Each night she left the tale unfinished, so the king, in his curiosity,...

Ewan Tallentire has experimented with various products for displaying his art. While this site is especially for those who want art sans t-shirts, it is surprising how many people prefer t-shirts to any other kind of clothing, and want something with a nice design on it. Here in Colorado, in fact, a neat, clean, colorful t-shirt with a classy design, along with new jeans and cowboy boots, can be considered "dressed up."  Ewan started designing more for t-shirts after noticing that there are only so many mugs anyone can keep in a cupboard. One would think the same would apply to t-shirts,...