Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 11, 2023 -
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Category: Theater and Stage, Avant Garde, Asia, Twentieth Century
In one of the more unusual incidents in the war, Fluckey sent a landing party ashore to set demolition charges on a coastal railway line, destroying a 16-car train.[4] This was the sole landing by U.S. military forces on the Japanese home islands during World War II. Fluckey ordered that this landing party be composed of crewmen from every division on his submarine. "He chose an eight-man team with no married men to blow up the train," Captain Max Duncan said, who served as Torpedo Officer on the Barb during this time. "He also wanted former Boy Scouts because he thought they could find their way back. They were paddling back to the ship when the train blew up."[5] The selected crewmen were Paul Saunders, William Hatfield, Francis Sever, Lawrence Newland, Edward Klinglesmith, James Richard, John Markuson, and William Walker. Hatfield wired the explosive charge, using a microswitch under the rails to trigger the explosion.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 24, 2023 -
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Category: Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Military, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, War, 1940s, Asia
Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 26, 2023 -
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Category: Art, Performance Art, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Sticky, Messy, Sloppy, Drippy, Treacly Things, Asia
Posted By: Alex - Thu Dec 08, 2022 -
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Category: Babies, Odd Names, Asia
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 07, 2022 -
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Category: Food, Technology, 1960s, Asia
London Daily Telegraph - Oct 25, 1972
Saffron Walden Weekly News - July 1, 1976
Vineland Daily Journal - Nov 28, 1979
Posted By: Alex - Mon Oct 10, 2022 -
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Category: Innuendo, Double Entendres, Symbolism, Nudge-Nudge-Wink-Wink and Subliminal Messages, Odd Names, Asia, Mistranslations
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 10, 2022 -
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Category: Music, Avant Garde, Obituaries, Asia, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 12, 2022 -
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Category: Ethnic Groupings, Hygiene, Stereotypes and Cliches, Advertising, 1960s, Asia
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jun 29, 2022 -
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Category: Statues, Monuments and Memorials, Travel, Danger, Risk, and Peril, Asia
‘Iimura films the cadavers of daily objects (junk) and animals without heads, cats, dogs or birds. While boats float calmly in the distance and children run along the beach, all kinds of larvae and insects move from old tatamis to old bottles under a “rain” of scratches caused by the numerous projections that the original film underwent.
Posted By: Paul - Tue May 03, 2022 -
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Category: Garbage, Trash, Waste and Other Detritus, Movies, Avant Garde, 1960s, Asia
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