Monthly Archives: March 2014
Very early (circa 1900?) test of moving pictures (GIF)
Turkish Oil Wrestlers
Zaluma Agra, Star of the East
I just read a little about her – Barnum (of Barnum & Bailey Circus, USA) rescued her from the Constantinople slave market and brought her to the US as an exotic attraction from the East. She was of Circassian descent, Circassia being a non-independent nation inside of the Russian Federation (or as I like to say, and not in a nice way, the New Russian Empire). It is located just to the north of the Republic of Georgia (and just north of Sochi) on the Black Sea. And mighty close to Crimea.
Great outfit
Sheila Darcy
Old travel poster for Thailand on BOAC
Old travel poster for Malaya
The Fighting Filipinos – will always fight for freedom! (WWII)




