#Vietnam War era

[nocternalrandomness]

The iconic Phantom

[oldshowbiz]

1968.

Texas Reactionaries versus Dick Gregory.

[irregularcollapse]

i must be the prettiest and most charismatic and most enigmatic person in this zoom symposium because i am not the most knowledgeable

[miragemirrors]

some posts people here make about addiction and drug use are so unserious bc they'll make a list of signs you're addicted to something and should seek help and try to sober up and it'll be things that describe to a T my relationship with hamburger

[benjhawkins]

this isnt on the official list but id love to know youre top five museums??

1) Mystic Seaport Museum!

It was soo good and immersive! So much so see and do and learn about. Like colonial Williamsburg but for age of sail nerds I guess.

2) The Peabody Essex Museum!

One of my hands down favorite local museums.

3) The Metropolitan Museum of Art!

I still need to visit the Cloisters, it’s on my list.

4) The Palm Springs Air Museum in California!

Such fond memories here. A small museum but a good one full of lots of planes and a B-17 Flying Fortress you can tour inside.

5) The Tenement Museum in New York!

We went on a lark a couple years ago and as a grandchild of Puerto Ricans who moved to New York I was very moved.

[rustinged]

interesting how a contagious and deadly virus coming on its third year has also coincided with the making of probably hundreds of podcasts about death

[copper-dust]

IT’S HERE!!! CHAPTER 4 OF MERRY MEN!

Guys... friends... pals... this chapter almost killed me, but now it’s here and I’m so excited to share.  We’re finally meeting this universe’s Snape and Ludo Bagman, getting an action scene, blowing stuff up, finding out how full of shit Stubby Boardman is, and possibly crying, depending on your sensitivity. 

“It’s not that bad. It was quick, man. Get off it.” Stubby’s voice carried. “Don’t sweat it. It all happened so fast like you wouldn’t believe. Like a—alright, calm the fuck down and get with the fucking program. Walk. Walk. Get up. It’s fine. It don’t mean nothin’. This’ll all be funny in the morning, you’ll see.”

Read it here.

[ausetkmt]

Texas Public Radio: Distinguished war correspondent argues that civil rights movement used military strategies to knock down Jim Crow laws.

A procession carrying signs for equal rights, integrated schools, decent housing, and an end to bias during the civil rights march on Washington D.C., in this August 28, 1963 photograph courtesy of the Library of Congress. REUTERS/Library of Congress/Handout via Reuters

Protesters of the civil rights movement were deliberately unarmed. Nonviolence was a strategic plan of the movement to break down the segregation of the Jim Crow laws.

Thomas Ricks argues in his new book “Waging a Good War” that although the movement was nonviolent, some of the tactics used to achieve equality aligned with military strategy, thereby making the movement sustainable for some 14 years.

Can the strategies employed by civil rights leaders be considered military tactics? Should modern-day activists apply these same approaches from the civil rights era? How does this information change what we know about history?

Guest: Thomas E. Ricks, veteran journalist and author of "Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968"

[goodjohnjr]

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[jaideepkhanduja]

1963: A Pivotal Year in World History - Triumphs, Tragedies, and Transformations Unveiled

Share what you know about the year you were born. 1963 stands as a pivotal chapter in the annals of world history, a tapestry woven with a myriad of events that left an indelible mark on the trajectory of the 20th century. It was a year where the globe bore witness to seismic shifts, from the intricate complexities of the Cold War to the pulsating heartbeat of cultural and social revolutions.…

[nocternalrandomness]

Sun setting at Edwards AFB

[lightdancer1]

Wrapped up the first of two Vietnam War books.

This book is basically 'The Vietnam War as narrated by Baghdad Bob.' It presents the argument that American contributions to defeating the Easter Offensive were a decisive and effective victory and impales itself on inconsistency with the ARVN. It describes supposedly elite units full of grown very well armed men who sit around, cry, and mob helicopters to flee while refusing to fight. It describes American superheroes who do everything while the ARVN is a cipher when this entire battle was a test cast of Vietnamization and the reality should have been a focus on the ARVN.

State propaganda will always be cringy and this is straight up 'No Tanks in Baghdad' tier dreck that explains much of the mentality that fought the war and why it went on to lose it.

For what it is, 9/10, for factual accuracy 4/10.

[theodore-sallis]

“Man-Thing!” Fear (Vol. 1/1970), #10.

Writer: Gerry Conway; Artists: Howard Chaykin and Gray Morrow; Letterer: Artie Simek

[blumineck]

hi! you're great I love your work! I've got a weirdly specific archery question and thought I'd send it to you in case you'd find it fun to have a crack at

say you're an expert archer originally from Vietnam sometime in the late bronze age. say you're a super duper expert archer because it turns out you're immortal, and so you do your archery across Eurasia through the first millennium BCE and the first millennium CE and into the age where gunpowder weapons are evolving into cannons. that's a long time to be alive and you do lots of hunting and fighting with all kinds of bows and shooting styles, especially war archery on horseback. then you're out of the picture for a while, let's say you're peacefully sleeping for a handful of centuries. (this is about Quynh from The Old Guard who alas was not peacefully sleeping)

all of a sudden you blink and you've gone from the era where firearms were just starting to develop and maybe with this new flintlock thing guns could eventually get good enough to rival a bow and arrows— bam, now you're in the 21st century. what kinds of modern archery tech would you be most excited to try out? what would you think of a compound bow? Olympic style archery? plastic fletching?? how about the modern reproductions of what are now considered historical bows and shooting styles? is there anything about 21st century archery that you'd want to rant about at length? other opinions about these newfangled takes on your trusty old bow and arrows you care to share?

This is a phenomenal question, and thank you for asking it! Here’s my 2 cents:

The thing about modern archery is that for the most part, modern bows are designed to make it easier to be accurate, to the stage that modern target accuracy is probably better than it’s ever been historically.

BUT, if we assume Quynh is capable of feats of archery that match the level of melee combat skill that e.g. Andy has, then she doesn’t NEED it to be easier to be accurate.

My guess is that someone like her would actually find most modern archery developments needlessly slow and awkward. Compound bows and Olympic recurves are NOT designed for instinctive, fast shooting, and would probably feel quite restrictive once she got over how easy they made accuracy.

BUT, I imagine she would be blown away by the range and arrow speed that modern bows can generate, and there are some recurves (and at least one compound bow), that have been designed to make use of the efficiency of modern materials and bow design, while still allowing traditional shooting styles, and those, THOSE are something an ancient immortal archer might fall in love with! (FWIW, my own go-to is a horsebow made with carbon-fibre limbs and a modern limb profile, and for impact energy it can match some traditional bows with a draw weight that’s 50% greater. The Oneida eagle compound could trump that).

So yeah, it might take her a bit, but once she gets her hands on the right equipment, she’d be (even more) TERRIFYING!

[luulapants]

Through my public school education in the '90s and early '00s, our US history classes always ran out of time at the end of the year, somewhere around the '60s civil rights movement. We usually had enough time for a rushed, incomplete, confusing explanation of the Vietnam War. We never learned about Watergate or the fall of the Berlin Wall or Reagonomics or the Gulf War. They were in our history books, but we never got to that part.

It terrifies me to wonder what era history classes end on now. Do they make it past the Cold War era now? Past 9/11 and the War on Terror? Or are young folks today entirely uneducated on the horrific Islamophobia and civilian slaughter that occurred at the beginning of this millennium?

[hotvintagepoll]

Propaganda

Yvette Mimieux (Dark of the Sun; Joy in the Morning; Where the Boys Are)—She is so enchanting on screen... that ethereal presence paired with her dark, sparkling eyes gives her an almost dream-like quality...

Xia Meng, also known as Hsia Moog or Miranda Yang (Sunrise, Bride Hunter)—For those who are familiar with Hong Kong's early cinema, Xia Meng is THE leading woman of an era, the earliest "silver-screen goddess", "The Great Beauty" and "Audrey Hepburn of the East". Xia Meng starred in 38 films in her 17-year career, and famously had rarely any flops, from her first film at the age of 18 to her last at the age of 35. She was a rare all-round actress in Mandarin-language films, acting, singing, and dancing with an enchanting ease in films of diverse genres, from contemporary drama to period operas. She was regarded as the "crown princess" among the "Three Princesses of the Great Wall", the iconic leading stars of the Great Wall Movie Enterprises, which was Hong Kong's leading left-wing studio in the 1950s-60s. At the time, Hong Kong cinema had only just taken off, but Xia Meng's influence had already spread out to China, Singapore, etc. Overseas Chinese-language magazines and newspapers often featured her on their covers. The famous HK wuxia novelist Jin Yong had such a huge crush on her that he made up a whole fake identity as a nobody-screenwriter to join the Great Wall studio just so he can write scripts for her. He famously said, "No one has really seen how beautiful Xi Shi (one of the renowned Four Beauties of ancient China) is, I think she should be just like Xia Meng to live up to her name." In 1980, she returned to the HK film industry by forming the Bluebird Movie Enterprises. As a producer with a heart for the community, she wanted to make a film on the Vietnam War and the many Vietnam War refugees migrating to Hong Kong. She approached director Ann Hui and produced the debut film Boat People (1982), a globally successful movie and landmark feature for Hong Kong New Wave, which won several awards including the best picture and best director in the second Hong Kong Film Award. Years later, Ann Hui looked back on her collaboration with Xia Meng, "I'm very grateful to her for allowing me to make what is probably the best film I've ever made in my life."

This is round 1 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut]

Yvette Mimieux:

Xia Meng: