arlo guthrie bob dylan dave van ronk...

 It Happened In The '60s

Arlo Guthrie remembers the day Robert Zimmerman aka Bob Dylan showed up at his family's house.

In 1961, when Guthrie was 13-years-old, Dylan showed up at his house looking for his father, Woody. Arlo's dad Woody Guthrie was an American singer-songwriter and composer who was one of the most significant figures in American folk music. His work focused on themes of American socialism and anti-fascism. He inspired several generations both politically and musically with songs such as "This Land Is Your Land," "Bound For Glory," and many more.

Guthrie said his father was in the hospital with a medical condition, but a 19-year-old Dylan was persistent.

“I was about 13 when a young Bob Dylan came to the house looking for my dad. He stood outside the door with these large hiking or engineer boots,” Guthrie told Sebastian Daily.

Guthrie said his father wasn’t home and in a nearby hospital, but he invited the 19-year-old inside anyway. They played harmonicas together before Dylan left. Afterward, Dylan visited with Woody Guthrie in the hospital. Dylan and others were drawn to the center of the folk music world, Greenwich Village, a section of New York City famous for its nightclubs, bars, and coffee shops.

The young Guthrie was not of legal age to be hanging out in the places Dylan and others were drinking or holding court, but being Woody Guthrie’s son had its privileges, and despite his youth, he was able to be a part of the scene, watching and listening to some of the great singers and musicians who began what was then called “The Folk Boom.”

In case you don't know, Woody Guthrie wrote hundreds of country, folk, and children's songs, along with ballads and improvised works. Dust Bowl Ballads, Guthrie's album of songs about the Dust Bowl period, was included on Mojo magazine's list of 100 Records That Changed The World, and many of his recorded songs are archived in the Library of Congress. Songwriters who have acknowledged Guthrie as a major influence on their work include Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Johnny Cash, Bruce Springsteen, Robert Hunter, Harry Chapin, John Mellencamp, Pete Seeger, Andy Irvine, Joe Strummer, Billy Bragg, Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Jeff Tweedy, Tom Paxton, Brian Fallon, Sean Bonnette, and Sixto Rodríguez. He frequently performed with the message "This machine kills fascists" displayed on his guitar.

adolf galland t/s...

 Mutiny of Adolf Galland

Luftwaffe fighter ace with 104 kills to his name, Oberstleutnant Adolf Galland flew during the entirety of the Second World War and volunteered for the Condor Legion in Spain in 1937 for the Nationalists. He was shot down four times during the war fighting the Americans. Galland and Reichsmarshal Herman Goering never seemed to agree on how best to handle Allied bombing raids over Germany, as the war went on, their professional relationship deteriorated. This came to a boiling point which was recounted by Galland years later in an interview. Herman Goering accused the Luftwaffe pilots of cowardice and inflating their kill claims. After Galland and others challenged Goering at a meeting in early 1943, Galland states "Goering then accused me of falsifying reports and hiding deficiencies from him. This was the last straw for me. I then stood, unhooked my Knight’s Cross, Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds, and threw them onto the heavy oak table. I then took off my Wound Badge and Iron Cross, along with the Spanish Cross in Gold with Diamonds, and they went on the table also … (the other pilots at the meeting) also took off their medals from around their necks and put them on the table … I then moved my chair back and turned to leave the meeting with my fighter leaders following me. Goering yelled at us, stating that we had not been dismissed … (Gunther) Lutzow shot back ‘You can’t shoot us all.’ We were all thinking that we had just terminated our careers, if not our lives … we never heard anything further about this from Goering. My medals were sent to my office a few days later."

commanche lodges

 In 1852, the Massachusetts born U. S. Army officer Randolph B. Marcy oversaw an expedition to find the source of the Red River. Marcy's group of seventy men traveled over unexplored parts of the vast Southern Great Plains. Observations on the trip were documented and Marcy was "to collect and report everything that may be useful or interesting."

Of the Comanche lodges, he shared the following remarks:

"The covering, made of buffalo hides, dressed without the hair, and cut and sewed together to fit the conical shape, is raised with a pole, spread out around the structure, and united at the edges with sharpened wood pegs, leaving sufficient space open at the bottom for a doorway, which may be closed with a blanket spread out with two small sticks, and suspended over the opening." He further added "the lower edge of the lodge is made fast to the ground with wood pins. The apex is left open, with a triangular wing or flap on each side, and the windward flap constantly stretched out by means of a pole inserted into a pocket in the end of it, which causes it to draw like a sail, and thus occasions a draught from the fire, built upon the ground in the centre of the lodge, and makes it warm and comfortable in the coldest winter weather."

Remarkable picture of the Kotsoteka Principal Chief Mow Way's camp, ca. 1867-75. Photograph taken by William Stinson Soule who was the post photographer at Fort Sill. Courtesy of the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

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flat floogie with a floy floy...

 slim gaillard

thank you Dillards...

 Two all time greats.

que son valley sundown

 It was his first night home in his own bed

eight beers running through his head

eyes closed , a smile on his face

didn't think he'd ever felt this great

50 years later he was counting on his fingers and thumbs

all those things he was going to get done

Never bought that XKE

never swam a stroke in the sea

and just between you and me

can't forget the things he'd seen

but that first night back

well , he'll always remember that.

harmonica blues...

 

James Coburn t/s...

 Trivia of James Coburn (31 August 1928 - 18 November 2002)

*He went to Compton Junior College after which he enlisted in the United States Army. Though he served as a truck driver he was also asked to narrate Army training films while posted at Germany. This kindled in him a love for films and he decided to study acting after his army stint.

*In his early career, Coburn was selected for a Remington Products razor commercial, where he was able to shave off 11 days of beard growth in less than 60 seconds while joking that he had more teeth to show on camera than the other 12 candidates for the part.

*Coburn's film debut came as the sidekick of Pernell Roberts in the Randolph Scott Western Ride Lonesome (1959).Before became a Western actor , Coburn worked as a rodeo rider and even won several championships in Southern California.

*He had only eleven lines in The Magnificent Seven (1960). Coburn was hired on the recommendation of his old friend since college, Robert Vaughn.

*Co-starring with Steve McQueen in three movies : The Magnificent Seven (1960, Hell is for Heroes (1962), The Great Escape (1963).

*Along Steve McQueen, Coburn was a pallbearer at the funeral of his friend (and his martial arts instructor), Bruce Lee, on July 31, 1973 in Seattle, Washington.

*He trained in martial arts, specifically Tang Soo Do and Kyokushin Karate, and incorporated his skills in various films, including the action comedy “Our Man Flint” (1966).

*At the time of his death, he was at home listening to music and playing his flute. Because of his severe rheumatoid arthritis, Coburn appeared in very few films during the 1980s, yet continued working until his death in 2002.

C124 Globemaster

 Douglas Aircraft developed the C-124 from 1947 to 1949, from a prototype they created from a World War II–design Douglas C-74 Globemaster, and based on lessons learned during the Berlin Airlift. The aircraft was powered by four large Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major piston engines producing 3,800 hp (2,800 kW) each. The C-124's design featured two large clamshell doors and a hydraulically actuated ramp in the nose as well as a cargo elevator under the aft fuselage. The C-124 was capable of carrying 68,500 lb (31,100 kg) of cargo, and the 77 ft (23 m) cargo bay featured two overhead hoists, each capable of lifting 8,000 lb (3,600 kg). As a cargo hauler, it could carry tanks, guns, trucks and other heavy equipment, while in its passenger-carrying role it could carry 200 fully equipped troops on its double decks or 127 litter patients and their attendants. It was the only aircraft of its time capable of transporting fully assembled heavy equipment such as tanks and bulldozers.

The C-124 first flew on 27 November 1949, with the C-124A being delivered from May 1950.[1] The C-124C was next, featuring more powerful engines, and an APS-42 weather radar fitted in a "thimble"-like structure on the nose. Wingtip-mounted combustion heaters were added to heat the cabin, and enable wing and tail surface deicing. The C-124As were later equipped with these improvements.

C-124A

Douglas Model 1129A, production version with four 3,500 hp R-4360-20WA engines; 204 built, most retrofitted later with nose-radar and combustion heaters in wingtip fairings.

One C-124C, 52-1069, c/n 43978, was used as a JC-124C, for testing the 15,000 shp (11,000 kW) Pratt & Whitney XT57 (PT5) turboprop, which was installed in the nose.

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Aircraft: Douglas C-124A Globemaster II

Reg: 49-0258 photos

Serial #: 43187

Airline: United States - US Air Force (USAF)

Photo Date: May 12, 2018

Uploaded: Feb 13, 2022

Dover Air Force Base - KDOV, USA - Delaware

Notes:

On display at the Mobility Air Command Museum at Dover AFB.

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que son valley dream...

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He use to dream about cars and girls

use to hunt rabbits and squirrels

had his wishes and his wants

had a smile he use to flaunt

that was before

he walked the Valley floor

before he went off to that war

he had his high school class ring

that he hocked on r and r for some jing

weighed 30 pounds more before

he ended up in I Corps

his favorite saying was "what will be will be."

how soon that changed to ... "what happened to me?"

then he remembers something he'd heard a long time before..

ain't nothing fair in love and war.

J.H. Plumb, the real deal...

 A nifty little exposition from the age of walpole through to Waterloo.

painted with a broad brush with interesting tidbits thrown in.

e.g. The mob burned Proestleys house beczuse he advocated slavery instead of destitution.

Napoleon marched on Moscow with a personal vendetta against the Tsar.

This is the stuff left out of most histories which in the end must be about individuals and their desires as well as the big picture

que son valley old vet...

  

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there's a bitter old Vet

who'll never forget

the welcome he'd get

when he walked off the jet

skipped down the steps

back to the land of the big PX

no flags did he see

flapping in the breeze

no welcome home from overseas

but he still dropped to his knees

kissed the ground of the Land of the Free

and who you ask might he be ?

Well , that bitter old Vet was you and me

that bitter old Vet was just 19 .

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99.999999999%...

 did you know that 99.9% of men that try camels prefer women?

bertrand russell and the turkey

 Happy Thanksgiving! (a national holiday in the United States). What is Bertrand Russell's Turkey fallacy/illusion of Thanksgiving? Bertrand Russell introduced this thought experiment in his classic work The Problems of Philosophy (1912).

*Disclaimer: To be fair the turkey was originally a chicken. Later philosophers have inexplicably switched these fowl. Bertrand Russell Facebook understands philosophy concerns questioning. The page also understands there are probably some questions best left unanswered.

Russell employed the Turkey fallacy/illusion thought experiment as a way of showing the fallacy of using past events to calculate future ones. The Turkey fallacy/illusion is basically used to illustrate a problem with inductive reasoning. In the same way, we believe the sun will rise tomorrow because it has always done so in the past, the chicken/turkey believes the farmer will feed it tomorrow as she has always done so before. The turkey problem/illusion is that we often mistake the continued absence of harm as evidence that there will be no harm. The turkey thinks that because there is no current evidence that the farmer is harming her (in fact, to the contrary, the farmer is feeding her quite well), that means that her future is secure.

Full citation of Bertrand Russell's Turkey/Chicken) fallacy/illusion of Thanksgiving

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“We are all convinced that the sun will rise tomorrow. Why? Is this belief a mere blind outcome of past experience, or can it be justified as a reasonable belief? It is not easy to find a test by which to judge whether a belief of this kind is reasonable or not, but we can at least ascertain what sort of general beliefs would suffice, if true, to justify the judgment that the sun will rise tomorrow, and the many other similar judgments upon which our actions are based.

It is obvious that if we are asked why we believe that the sun will rise to-morrow, we shall naturally answer, "Because it always has risen every day." We have a firm belief that it will rise in the future, because it has risen in the past. If we are challenged as to why we believe that it will continue to rise as heretofore, we may appeal to the laws of motion: the earth, we shall say, is a freely rotating body, and such bodies do not cease to rotate unless something interferes from outside, and there is nothing outside to interfere with the earth between now and tomorrow. Of course it might be doubted whether we are quite certain that there is nothing outside to interfere, but this is not the interesting doubt. The interesting doubt is as to whether the laws of motion will remain in operation until tomorrow. If this doubt is raised, we find ourselves in the same position as when the doubt about the sunrise was first raised.

The only reason for believing that the laws of motion will remain in operation is that they have operated hitherto, so far as our knowledge of the past enables us to judge. It is true that we have a greater body of evidence from the past in favour of the laws of motion than we have in favour of the sunrise, because the sunrise is merely a particular case of fulfilment of the laws of motion, and there are countless other particular cases. But the real question is: Do any number of cases of a law being fulfilled in the past afford evidence that it will be fulfilled in the future? If not, it becomes plain that we have no ground whatever for expecting the sun to rise to-morrow, or for expecting the bread we shall eat at our next meal not to poison us, or for any of the other scarcely conscious expectations that control our daily lives. It is to be observed that all such expectations are only probable; thus we have not to seek for a proof that they must be fulfilled, but only for some reason in favour of the view that they are likely to be fulfilled.

Now in dealing with this question we must, to begin with, make an important distinction, without which we should soon become involved in hopeless confusions. Experience has shown us that, hitherto, the frequent repetition of some uniform succession or coexistence has been a cause of our expecting the same succession or coexistence on the next occasion. Food that has a certain appearance generally has a certain taste, and it is a severe shock to our expectations when the familiar appearance is found to be associated with an unusual taste. Things which we see become associated, by habit, with certain tactile sensations which we expect if we touch them; one of the horrors of a ghost (in many ghost-stories) is that it fails to give us any sensations of touch. Uneducated people who go abroad for the first time are so surprised as to be incredulous when they find their native language not understood.

And this kind of association is not confined to men; in animals also it is very strong. A horse which has been often driven along a certain road resists the attempt to drive him in a different direction. Domestic animals expect food when they see the person who usually feeds them. We know that all these rather crude expectations of uniformity are liable to be misleading. The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.”

— Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy (1912), Ch. VI: On Induction, pp. 94-8

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Image: Bertrand Russell in his private study at his home in Penrhyndeudreath, Gwynedd, United Kingdom. Look Magazine photo study night of 13 January 1962.

Thanksgiving is primarily a Holiday in the United States. It occurs on the fourth Thursday in November, and is based on the colonial Pilgrims' 1621 harvest meal. The holiday continues to be a day for Americans to gather for a day of feasting, football and family. The holiday, while quite popular for many Americans is not without controversy. For many Native Americans, Thanksgiving is a day of mourning and protest since it commemorates the arrival of settlers in North America and the centuries of oppression and genocide that followed