Quotulatiousness

March 15, 2018

DicKtionary – H is for Homicide – Francisco Macias Nguema

Filed under: Africa, History — Tags: , , , , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

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Published on 14 Mar 2018

H is for homicide, the taking of lives
Bloodthirsty people with pistols or knives
Or government leaders than strangled their nations
And Macias Nguema killed whole populations.

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March 9, 2018

DicKtionary – G is for Gangster – Arnold Rothstein

Filed under: History, Sports, USA — Tags: , , , , , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

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Published on 7 Mar 2018

G is for Gambler, relying on luck,
Or insider knowledge, to make a quick buck
G’s also for Gangster, you know what I mean?
And combining the two was Arnold Rothstein.

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March 2, 2018

DicKtionary – F is for Fraud – Jeanne de Valois Saint-Remy

Filed under: France, History — Tags: , , , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

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Published on 28 Feb 2018

F is for fraud, the art of deceit,
And it’s not so nice to be labeled a cheat,
F is also for France, and female, so let me,
Introduce today’s hero, Jeanne Saint-Remy.

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February 22, 2018

DicKtionary – E is for Eugenics – Otmar von Verschuer

Filed under: Germany, History, Science — Tags: , , , , — Nicholas @ 06:00

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Published on 21 Feb 2018

E for eugenics, pseudo science about race,
Selective breeding of humans can make the world a purer place,
When saying, “that’s scary”, those words are ne’er truer,
Then of the main man today, Otmar von Verschuer.

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February 15, 2018

DicKtionary – D is for Dollars – Hetty Green

Filed under: Business, History, USA — Tags: , , , , — Nicholas @ 06:00

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Published on 14 Feb 2018

D is for dollars, 100 to the penny,
Some have but few, others have many,
Some hoard them too – the frugal and mean,
And none was more frugal than one Hetty Green.

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February 9, 2018

DicKtionary – C is for Car – Henry Ford

Filed under: Business, History, USA — Tags: , , , , — Nicholas @ 06:00

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Published on 8 Feb 2018

C is for car – the automobiles
And nothing is cooler than a boss set of wheels,
From selling some cars, this man made a horde,
Mechanic and boss man, here’s Henry Ford.

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January 30, 2018

DicKtionary – A is for Air Force – Curtis LeMay

Filed under: History, Military, USA, WW2 — Tags: , , , , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

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Published on 17 Jan 2018

A is for Air Force, you know that of course
And we turn to the states to look at the dates
When the man in command, that some couldn’t stand
Is our hero today, General Curtis LeMay.

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January 28, 2018

Day 13 Cuban Missile Crisis – The End to End All Things and Almost Everything

TimeGhost
Published on 21 Dec 2017

On Sunday, 28 October, 1962 the Cuban Missile Crisis is supposed to end, but there are still two nuclear armed Soviet submarines in the waters around the island hunted by the US Navy. And what about Fidel Castro?

January 27, 2018

Day 12 Cuban Missile Crisis – Black Saturday, nuclear war on autopilot…

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Published on 7 Dec 2017

On October 27, 1962 a deal to resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis is ever so close, but then almost everything that can go wrong, goes wrong. Political confusion between the leaders, lost and shot down airplanes, errant nuclear armed submarines and exhaustion takes its toll. For those immediately involved it will go down in memory as the Black Saturday.

January 26, 2018

Day 11 Cuban Missile Crisis – Will President Kennedy invade Cuba after all?

TimeGhost
Published on 30 Nov 2017

On 26 October 1962, USSR Premier Nikita Khrushchev is preparing to offer the US an olive branch. Meanwhile US President John F Kennedy continue to plan an invasion of Cuba. While the politicians make new plans, their previous military plans take on a life of their own

January 25, 2018

Day 10 Cuban Missile Crisis – Showdown at the U.N. Corral

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Published on 27 Nov 2017

On October 25, 1962 while the US Navy are looking for something to do in the Caribbean, both USSR Chairman Khrushchev and US President Kennedy are questioning the success of their actions. Meanwhile US Ambassador to the UN Adlai Stevenson is about to face off with USSR Ambassador to the UN, Valerian Zorin in a historic showdown at the United Nations headquarters in New York.

January 24, 2018

Day 9 Cuban Missile Crisis – Blockade starts and low altitude flybys over Cuba

TimeGhost
Published on 23 Nov 2017

On October 24, 1962 the US led blockade on Cuba goes into effect, but it’s not the be the showdown that it looks like! In the same time the US Navy starts flying RF8 Crusader reconnaissance jets 400 feet over the missile sites on Cuba, to see what’s really going on. As the jets roar over the heads of the Cuban and Soviet soldiers, the crisis deepens.

January 23, 2018

Day 8 Cuban Missile Crisis – Kennedy and Khrushchev face reality

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Published on 20 Nov 2017

On October 23, 1962 as the blockade on Cuba is being prepared, US President John F. Kennedy and USSR Chairman Nikita Khrushchev question their own actions realising that they might have gone a step too far. By now the dice have been rolled and it’s too late to stop the wheels from spinning. Both leaders try to justify their decisions to maintain their political power.

January 22, 2018

Day 7 Cuban Missile Crisis – USA announces a blockade on Cuba

TimeGhost
Published on 16 Nov 2017

On October 22, 1962 the world is shocked to find out that the US and the USSR are facing off with nuclear arms in the Caribbean. In the world’s first televised announcement of an international military crisis, US President John F. Kennedy sets off panic and sudden fear of a third world war, with nuclear arms involved.

January 21, 2018

Day 6 Cuban Missile Crisis – Mr. President did you say blockade, or invade Cuba?

TimeGhost
Published on 13 Nov 2017

On October 21 1962, politicians and military in both the US and in the USSR seem to have contradictory views on what to do next. The questions on the table; blockade AND invade Cuba, or just a quarantine? Should the Soviet local commanders on Cuba get to play with the little nukes as they like, or rather wait for permission? When it’s only the world as we know it that’s at stake…

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