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“Thought is impossible without an image.” Aristotle A lone man stands stock-still before an armored tank, daring it to move forward, small yet large in his defiance. That picture, a frozen moment from the student uprising in Tiananmen Square, resides indelibly in the minds of all who gazed upon the portrait of singular courage. But now … Continue reading
She was a woman of strength and courage, and the first heroic woman to have a comic book in her own name. Sheena, “Queen of the Jungle,” debuted in the British magazine Wags #1 in 1937, the creation of comic book pioneers Will Eisner and S. M. “Jerry” Iger. As the story goes, Sheena originally arrived in … Continue reading
Appomattox Surrender 1865 Wandering carnage at twilight General Lee espied General Washington surveying, engorged on war now engaged in discourse melancholy for their commonwealth. By bodies boating fell talk of pride and valor the price of tobacco the cost of life banquettes and lunettes demi-lunes and barbettes – vive la France – … Continue reading
Cotton Mather Preaches on Satan Mark Walston exceedingly disturbed, Territory wrested from a devil exceedingly disturbed, the perceived accomplishment of providential possession of the utmost parts irritating, infuriating, immediately precipitating vile machinations to overturn the godly establishment. The mouth of perdition issues a flood for the carrying away of the ignorant and unrepentant, … Continue reading
On Dec. 7, 1941, more than 350 Japanese fighter planes attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, killing about 2,400 people—and igniting a near-hysterical hatred in America of all things Japanese. Two months later, in February 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued an executive order permitting the U.S. Army to remove any individuals … Continue reading
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