Category Archives: history

Fascism and America’s Ruling Elites – from the Archives

Posted on January 4, 2023 by toritto

Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle Awarded to Henry Ford by Adolph Hitler – 1938 So it’s the 1930s and Hitler and Mussolini, not to mention Franco have established nazism / fascism in Europe. Hitler has already … Continue reading →

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The North Platte Canteen – December 1941 – from the Archive

Posted on December 13, 2022 by toritto

 

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RIHT to RISD – from the Archive

Posted on November 17, 2022 by toritto

Once upon a time, during the reign of Antoninus Pius, I lived and worked in Providence, Rhode Island. But I’m getting ahead of myself. As a sixteen year old high school graduate I worked in the mail room of the … Continue reading →

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Making Angie Cry – August,1945 – from the Archive

Posted on August 7, 2022 by toritto

Toritto – 1945 Everyone was so happy that day, I didn’t know why they were happy, but I was happy too.  I rode on daddy’s shoulders down 13th avenue, passed the Endicott theater, the waving at the happy people kissing … Continue reading →

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The Dust Bowl

Posted on July 24, 2022 by toritto

Goodwell, Oklahoma, June 4, 1937. Anyone who has read Steinbeck’s “Grapes” or “Mice” or took an American History class in the middle of the last century has heard of the dust bowl – the “Dirty Thirties” as it used to … Continue reading →

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Learning from the Gracchi – the “First Socialists” – from the History archive

Posted on June 20, 2022 by toritto

A lesson from history for today’s politics It is the year 135B. C  .in the Roman Republic. The Carthaginians had been finally defeated. The Roman Republic itself was already some 375 years old, (older than the United States today) dating … Continue reading →

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The Death of Thich Quang Duc – June 11, 1963

Posted on June 12, 2022 by toritto

This repost is for those too young to remember Vietnam, their father’s hell. Memorial to Thich Quang Duc – Ho Chi Minh City Thich Quang Duc was a Buddhist – a Vietnamese Buddhist living in South Vietnam in 1963. South … Continue reading →

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Cruising With Suzanne Pleshette – from the Archive

Posted on May 21, 2022 by toritto

“Suzanne Pleshette”  with some sharply dressed, well muscled geek (still wearing his U.S. Army issue eyeglasses) – 1969 While I was In the Army and stationed in Eritrea in the mid-60s my wife JoAnn got a job with The Greek … Continue reading →

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From Republic to Empire – from the History Archive

Posted on May 1, 2022 by toritto

Standard of the IV Cohort XXIV Legion At Cannae, in Southern Italy, the Army of the Roman Republic faced Hannibal in the 2nd Punic War. At the time a Roman citizen could not “join” the Army; it was an honor … Continue reading →

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Eunuch – from the History Archive

Posted on April 22, 2022 by toritto

Photo post-card of the Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II, photographed at the Imperial Palace. The Qizlar Agha, was one of the most powerful and sometimes the richest men in the Ottoman Empire until 1908. He supervised … Continue reading →

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