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Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla Pretty much everybody even remotely associated with real-time strategy games has heard the name Tesla before – the Serbian God of Lightning's omnipresent, ever-zapping coils have been ruining the lives of digital Allied soldiers and gibbing U.S. war machines into spare parts since the release of Command & Conquer: Red Alert in 1996 – but surprisingly few people these days are familiar with the life and times of one of humankind's most eccentric, badass, and volumetrically-insane scientific super-geniuses. First off, Nikola Tesla was brilliant. And not just like Ken Jennings brilliant, either - I mean like, "holy crap my head just exploded (from all the awesome)" brilliant. Of course, much like many other eccentric giga-geniuses and diabolical masterminds, Tesla was also completely insane. Tesla also ordered the construction of the Wardenclyffe Tesla Tower, a giant building shaped like an erect penis that would have housed the largest Tesla coil ever built. Tesla in his lab.

Technology Laws Murphy's technology laws Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence. Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some damn fool discovers something which either abolishes the system or expands it beyond recognition. Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand. If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

Biography Kissing Sailor - Found at Last Glenn Edward McDuffie knows why the sailor kissing a white-clad nurse in that famous photo has his wrist bent back in an awkward position. Taken August 14, 1945 in New York City's Times Square moments after the crowd there heard World War II had ended, that photo has epitomized the jubilant mood of a nation who had won our hard fought victory. Glenn knows why that sailor has his wrist twisted because he is that sailor. Glenn had come to New York after coming off the SS Alexander Lillinton with Jack Holmes (from Pittsburg), the sailor in the dark uniform seen laughing in that same photo. Now ready to turn 80 this August 3rd, Glenn wants to celebrate the 62nd anniversary of his kiss of an overjoyed nurse by setting the record straight. "I rode the subway into Times Square, got off, and when I walked up the stairs, a woman at the top said she was so happy for me. Glenn will turn 80 this August 3, 2007.

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HUMOR: Chicken Philosophy WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD??? Plato: For the greater good. Aristotle: To fulfill its nature on the other side. Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability. This page was created by David Saum. Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived Additional notes from the author: If you want to learn more about Tesla, I highly recommend reading Tesla: Man Out of Time Also, this Badass of the week by Ben Thompson is what originally inspired me to write a comic about Tesla. Ben's also got a book out which is packed full of awesome. There's an old movie from the 80s on Netflix Instant Queue right now about Tesla: The Secret of Nikola Tesla. It's corny and full of bad acting, but it paints a fairly accurate depiction of his life. The drunk history of Tesla is quite awesome, too. History.com has a great article about Edison and how his douchebaggery had a chokehold on American cinema.

Russian International News Agency Releases 100 Previously Unseen World War II Images Children take shelter drawing an air raid, near Minsk, 1941, part of a largely unseen Russian archive. Now, the Russian International News Agency has an enormous archive of photographs spanning many decades, many of which have never been seen before. It has recently committed to making part of this archive open to the public and to this end has started a project known as Eternal Values. Above, citizens of Leningrad leave their houses after a particularly brutal bombing raid in 1942. A mechanic inspects a plane while a young soldier uses a stencil to add another kill star to its side, taken on the southwestern front in 1942. September 1941 and as the war progresses, universal conscription means that women as well as men must undergo military training. April 1942 and Leningrad is under siege. Yet despite the siege there must be some light hearted moments. In 1941 the whole country began to fully mobilise. Everyone, even the young, were expected to play their part.

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The Navajo Code Talkers Helped to Win World War II The Navajo Code Talkers: Helped to Win World War II The early hours of December 7, 1941, marked the dawn of what President Franklin D. Image via Wikipedia For the next three and a half years, many islands in the Pacific Ocean became a vast, fragmented battlefield. An incident on the island of Saipan was typical. Image via Wikipedia Finally the mariners received a curious request: “Do you have a Navajo – and convinced headquarters that the unit was one of their own. Language Barrier: The unwritten language of the Navajo Indians was used at the basis of a cryptic code that the Japanese never deciphered throughout the Pacific campaign. Hidden Weapons The Navajos – from Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah – had been recruited into the U.S. Image via Wikipedia Image by Son of Groucho via Flickr Total Success

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