Author: DXO
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National Geographic, February 1967
National Geographic, February 1967 Originally uploaded by juggernautco. I bought it yesterday at a thrift shop at Fullerton, Halsted, and Lincoln in Chicago. I bought it because it was the month of my birth. Also included new map of Viet Nam, Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand, which was, of course, somewhat in flux during that time…
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Bob Dole by Dylan Morgan
Bob Dole by Dylan Morgan Originally uploaded by juggernautco. Here’s one of my favorite pieces of art– Bob Dole by Dylan Morgan. Dylan Morgan painted this image from a photo in the newspaper and I like it because it is "true"– Bob Dole looked this way in a photo in one moment. And…
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4 Years With Nanette Fabray
No matter how good an obituary is, you can’t tell the entire story of someone’s life ibn one newspaper article published the day after they died. But the best obits can give clues wrought with meaning in a small space. Take the last two sentences of the AP obituary of David W. Tebet, TV Talent…
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Mandarin Insurance Brochure Cover
Mandarin Insurance Brochure Cover Originally uploaded by juggernautco. So I was at a restaurant in Uptown recently and I picked up a nicely printed booklet that had a signficant amoutn of Mandarin text on it sprinkled with incomprehensible cartoon-like images. So I asked a friend who is a native of China what it…
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First Court Case of Hussein Stems From Killings in Village in ’82
BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 5 – The Iraqi court set up to hear cases against Saddam Hussein and his top aides plans to bring him to trial by late summer or early fall in its first case, involving the 1982 killings of nearly 160 men from Dujail, a predominantly Shiite village north of Baghdad, after he…