“The Vanquisher of Baghdad, George W. Bush.” Le Petit Journal, March 25, 1917.
No, no wait! I meant Lieutenant-General Stanley Maude! I SWEAR!
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Children search for their belongings among the debris of demolished shanties in Gurgaon, in the northern Indian state of Haryana, September 30, 2010. The shanties were demolished by municipal workers near the Commonwealth Games shooting range on September 28, local media reported. (REUTERS/Parivartan Sharma) #
So… wait. An entire neighborhood of poor people have had their homes demolished so that the Indian government wouldn’t look bad for how horribly it treats its poor - on the occasion of an international sporting contest specifically celebrating Western colonialism.
That doesn’t even make PRETEND sense.
And just because it’s apparently “Disasters at Sea” Day here at Smoke Weed Every Day:
“Punishment of the Attacker; Returning from a raid on England, the Zeppelin L-19 goes down in the North Sea.” Le Petit Journal, February 27, 1916.
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Oflag IV-C: The Celebrity Fit Club of German POW Camps
Camp guards collected so much escape equipment that they established a “Kommandant’s Escape Museum”. Local photographer Johannes Lange took photographs of the would-be escapers in their disguises or re-enacting their attempts for the camera… Security officer Reinhold Eggers made them a regular part of Das Abwehrblatt, a weekly magazine for the German POW camps.
Oflag IV-C was the Celebrity Fit Club of German prisoner-of-war camps during the Second World War. “Celebrity” because the camp hosted the VIP contingent of Allied POWs, mostly relatives of high-ranking Allied politicians. “Fit Club” because the lengths to which the camp inmates went in their attempts to escape are on the level of the absurd physical challenges faced by the show’s contestants. The difference, I suppose, being that they were POWs trying to escape to freedom, instead of rehab washouts trying to reignite their 15 minutes of fame performing dog tricks in front of a national audience.
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