Monday, March 1, 2021

all SET PHOTOGRAPHERS always lie : and never more so than in the 1940s...

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If your knowledge of pre-1950 cinema is mostly limited, like mine, to the still photographs used to illustrate articles about them in magazi...
Saturday, January 2, 2021

Internet allows human brain to bypass the bottleneck of the birth canal, along with age-old institutional & financial bottlenecks

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                                 HGT : Fungi & bacteria do it, so why not humans as well ? Long ago, science fiction writers thought the...
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Monday, December 28, 2020

ECLECTIC : Carey Anne Farrell

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 Your ‘cover’ of an earlier hit better not be that : better not be a perfect cover or copy. Do it different and hopefully better : just simi...
Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Can you tell difference ‘tween the NB Irving newspapers & CBC NB’s non-coverage of the formative years in Moncton that produced our country’s worst mass killer, Gabriel Wortman ?

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I can’t. Instead, it is left to a Halifax Nova Scotia newspaper and a Halifax reporter, Andrew Rankin, to give us the inside story of the h...
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preserving History : its not the size of the vial, its the size of the Hope : Pfizer Penicillin March 1942, Pfizer Covid vaccine December 2020

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  Today, in December 2020, museums all over the world are rushing to preserve the tiny precious vial of Pfizer’s Covid vaccine that was firs...
Saturday, December 19, 2020

July Collins’ performances : popular versus great

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 Judy Collins’ version of SOMEDAY SOON has been a great success, with millions of amateurs and bar bands attempting ,usually successfully, t...
Friday, December 18, 2020

‘$705,000 cash in an AMMO box’ : the twin obsessions of mass killer Gabriel Wortman : guns & money

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Gabe’s twin obsessions : GUNS & MONEY As a poet, lyricist, headline writer or as copy writer, one always looks for those phrases that sa...
Thursday, December 17, 2020

Worse than dying at 27 - far far worse - is peaking at 27 and then facing a half century or more of a sharp decline in quality

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Still touting youthful rebellion - at age 77....  A half century ago, when most of the Rolling Stone members were around age 27, the band wa...

Lots of Canadians got very rich during the GREAT DEPRESSION : Gabriel Wortman would have been one of them

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  Canada’s Pollyanna Press doesn’t like to discuss it, but lots of present day Canadian zillionaire families first got their wealth during t...
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Pfizer goes it alone on COVID vaccine in 2020, just as it did with Penicillin in 1944 !

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the UPJOHN COMPANY has a website devoted to its WWII medical supplies production that would get an A+ from any historian or archivist ! Pfiz...
Friday, December 11, 2020

In World War II, the difference from being an occupied territory and a ‘forced’ ally wasn’t always clear and seemed to vary day by day

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The stupidest thing he ever did : declaring war on the USA when it had no intention of doing the same to him... A previous post mentioned th...
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WWII’s colonies had no independent, official, position on whether to be Axis, Allied or Neutral

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Canadians are continuously surprised to learn that Newfoundland never declared war on Germany in 1939. Newfoundland had given up its indepen...

a DRAM is a micro-drama , conducted internally within an individual or a small tight group

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Virtually everyone who casually asks for a wee dram of whiskey would be shocked and insulted if their host actually delivered upon their req...
Thursday, December 10, 2020

when we are receiving hospital care, we are all DEMOCRATS ; when it comes to paying for that hospital care, we are all REPUBLICANS

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 Do you recognize anything of yourself, or that of friends & relatives, in some of my medically-oriented potted biography ? I have been ...
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Monday, December 7, 2020

Pfizer was first to have PENICILLIN on the beaches of Normandy & now about to be the first to have COVID VACCINE in the arms of Londonderry

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The grim-faced man on the left, Pfizer President John L Smith , was an ultra cautious man, moving fast only once in his life : in late summe...