of WW2-era canvas and wood, large enough to house an army patrol. It claimed nearly all the trunk space in our blue ’69 Impala, smelled sweetly of ancient mildew, and took Daddy the better part of an hour to erect–with marginal help from little brother Thomas and me. We were ...
The Second World War was a global conflict in which an alliance of expansionist dictatorships—Germany, Italy, and Japan—was resisted by much of the rest of the world, but especially Great Britain, the Soviet Union, the United States, and China. It was the bloodiest conflict in history, ...
Original R2, I mean Bubo, from ‘Clash! I forget the scene (the 1-eyed fates in ‘Clash?) but I like it. Original Harryhausen concept art. Lunar leader from “First Men in the Moon.” (original) Non-original (but based thereon) model by Alan Friswell, of nautiloid thingy from “Mys...
Alan Turing, the Brit genius who, during the worst days of WW2, labored mightily and greatly aided in the defeat of the Nazi. Many computer users may have heard of the ‘Turing test’, utilized to verify the presence of human or machine. This was just a small part of Mr. Turing’s...