pferguson | August 29, 2021
Letting Go C-216…sir… This is Abilene…right here under your feet…but now its Avalon. Now, how can that be possible to have those two things in the same place? (Kepper. The Last Full Measure, 1:15:37 – 1:15:58). It was a recent re-watch of The Last Full Measure, a film in search of the Medal of Honor […]
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Tags: Butterflies, Film History, Medal of Honor, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Powder Wing, The Last Full Measure, Todd Robinson, Vietnam, William H. Pitsenbarger
pferguson | June 26, 2021
Canadian Artillery in Action Canadian war artist Kenneth Forbes was all to familiar with service on the Western Front. Born in Toronto, Canada Forbes, prior to the Great War, studied art in the United Kingdom and had twelve of his portraits exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, England. In 1914 Forbes joined the British Army’s […]
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Tags: 16th Battalion CEF (Canadian Scottish), Canadian Artillery in Action, Canadian Field Artillery, Canadian War Memorials Fund, Honours and Awards, Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (IODE), Kenneth Forbes, Lord Beaverbrook, Military Medal, Phillip Henry Button, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI), War Artists, William Metcalf VC MM and Bar
pferguson | April 18, 2021
Radium – Light the catalyst… She’s wonderful isn’t she…her dance…her name is Loie Fuller [pioneer of modern dance and theatrical lighting] if you wish to see her again…she calls it… this dance…her fire dance…[Why?]…I believe its because she’s interested in the way flames move. Henri Curie speaking to Marie Skłodowska from Radioactive. Screenplay by Jack […]
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Tags: Bibliothèque nationale France, Chilliwack, Film History, Great War, Henri Curie, Jack Thorne, Loie Fuller, Malta, Marie Curie, Marjane Satrapi, Nobel Prize, Petite Curie, Radioactive, Radium. Polonium, X-ray
pferguson | March 29, 2021
Container Ships and Dreadnoughts Since 1849 I have studied incessantly, under all its aspects, a question which was already in my mind since 1832. I confess that my scheme is still a mere dream, and I do not shut my eyes to the fact that so long as I alone believe it to be possible, […]
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Tags: Dreadnoughts, Ever Given, Ferdinand de Lesseps, HMS Dreadnought, Jackie Fisher, Joseph Conrad, Jutland, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal, Kiel Canal, Marine Traffic Map, Scapa Flow, SS Patna, Suez Canal, Super-Dreadnoughts
pferguson | May 5, 2020
The serious lack of food… In a few days time, 8 May 2020, the 75th anniversary of VE Day will be recognized. Prior to the declaration of peace, a ceasefire was established at 0800 HRS 5 May 1945. The people of the Netherlands were so very grateful to their Canadian liberators. The occupation of the […]
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Tags: British Empire Medal, Bronze Cross, Canadian Infantry Corps, Charles Foulkes, Corps of Military Staff Clerks, Cross of Merit, Food, Francis Roy Weatherdon, Humanitarian, John Eric Forbes, Leonard Hood, Netherlands, Operation Chowhound, Operation Manna, Order of Orange-Nassau, Philip Henry Tedman, Refeeding Syndrome, Rex Cowan, Royal Air Force, Royal Canadian Air Force, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps, Royal Canadian Artillery, Royal Canadian Engineers, Starvation, United States Army Air Force, VE Day, William Charles Conoche, William Preston Gilbride, William Scott Murdoch, William Smith Ziegler
