June/July Favorites: Mole Maps, Cigarette Highways, Ho Chih Minh Dreams of Babe Bruth....

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Here's a selection of some of my favorite posts of the past four weeks or so:

Telegraph “Fax”, 1895. Transmitting Images by Wire & 150 Year-Old Emoticons

Buckle-up for the Nuclear Holocaust: Norbert Wiener’s Terrifically Bad Idea

The Most Lethal Number: M-69 vs. U-235 (Japan, 1945)

Space 1898: Pre-Modern Space Flight

Connections: from Plugging Gibraltar to Shakespeare’s Memories in One Step

Vision: Looking Straight Up, Down, Across and Through--1525-1905

The World's "Best" Address? POB 1663, Santa Fe. Home of the Atomic Bomb

Ho Chi Minh Dreams of Babe Ruth

Nazi Designers of Current Corporate Logos: Franziskaner Beer's Nazi Connection

Sound Machines and Acoustic Memory: Ephemeral Sound Landscapes

Deathly Equality: Liberty & Lung Cancer, Cigarettes and Women’s Rights, 1929

The False Paris--a City Created to be Bombed, 1917/1918

Curious, Impracticable and Useless Inventions: Gun Hats and Steel Fish, 1920

Maps of the Cosmos of Moles, 1671: Astrology, Pseudoscience & Furious Belief