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Originally posted on my movie review blog: Bought That For a…

Saturday, April 6th, 2013

Originally posted on my movie review blog:
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The Holy Mountain (German: Der heilige Berg) – a 1926 Weimar Republic mountain film directed by Arnold Fanck, starring future filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl in her …

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"Were this thinking not in the frame of scientific work, it would be considered paranoid."

Thursday, June 21st, 2012

“Were this thinking not in the frame of scientific work, it would be considered paranoid.” – Psychologist who studied scientists at Berkeley with Rorschach and TAT, as quoted in ‘The Making of the Atomic Bomb’, by Richard Rhodes   – hardcover,…

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"“Nur die Fülle führt zur Klarheit Und im Abgrund wohnt die Wahrheit.” “Only…"

Sunday, June 17th, 2012

““Nur die Fülle führt zur Klarheit
Und im Abgrund wohnt die Wahrheit.”

“Only wholeness leads to clarity,
And truth lies in the abyss”” – Friedrich von Schiller,
referenced as one of Niels Bohr’s favorite quotes in
‘The Making of the…

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Pimpernel Smith – (aka ‘Mr. V’) – (1941) Tagline:…

Thursday, April 19th, 2012

Pimpernel Smith – (aka ‘Mr. V’) – (1941)
Tagline: The Elusive Mr. V – He’s Everywhere!
Alternate Tagline: This is wartime propaganda I can live with
available on Netflix, and youtube
I give this a 7 out of 10, it’s got a good beat but you can??…

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Postwar Japan: 1945 to the Present (c) 1973 Random House

Sunday, April 1st, 2012

Postwar Japan: 1945 to the Present (c) 1973 Random House

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Secrets of War: Nazi Gold - currently reading about the birth of…

Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

Secrets of War: Nazi Gold
- currently reading about the birth of the CIA during WWII, watching this documentary about Swiss ‘neutrality’ during WWII, and have been delving into the recruitment of Nazi war criminals by the CIA afterwards in Operatio…

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Trinity was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear…

Friday, January 27th, 2012

‘The Gadget’ ‘The Gadget’ Aerial view of test site Trinity was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear device. This test was conducted by the United States Army on July 16, 1945,[4][5][6][7][8] in the Jornada del Muerto desert about 35 mi…

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