Saw this one today, Delaware license MEWOBOR. I want to respect the effort to get this personalized license plate and understand the message, but I don't get it.Any comments or interpretatio...
Friday, 28 February 2014
Friday, 21 February 2014
Do you know how people put pictures of themselves with famous people on the walls of their offices in order to show the influence they have? I have especially seen this for those who work in government.I was able to get my picture with several presidents at the baseball game so I am ready to fill my office wall. President Washington President JeffersonPresident LincolnPresident Roosevelt (Teddy)These may seem like pictures taken with...
Back in June, the Spy exhibit at the Franklin Institute had a real live Enigma machine used by the Germans in World War II to encode their secret transmissions. Lucky the Allies had broken the code and could read those transmissions.You may recall that we had a chance to visit Bletchley Park, the place where the British and their allies worked on breaking the code, as a side-trip on a visit to London some years ago.The instruction are in German,...
Wednesday, 19 February 2014
Charles Stross in the Jennifer Morgue explored the secret history of the ship, the Hughes Glomar Explorer. There really is such a ship. At the Franklin Institute in June an exhibit of the history of Spying had artifacts from Project Azorian, the attempted lifting of a soviet submarine by the Hughes Glomar Explorer.A commemorative plaque.A belt buckle and in the background a manganese nodule that was an example of the intended use of the ship.Of...
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