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Defending The Republic, Not some Democracy, and enjoying some of life's rewards along the way.
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Flyin Jenny - Bonus Comic Strip
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The Shadow in "The Shadow Strikes", Classic Movie
The Shadow in, "The Shadow Strikes", classic movie for Sunday. Old time radio, golden age comic and classic movie. Shows you how popular some characters were back in the day. About the only thing we have not posted is one of the Pulp fiction stories of the Shadow. We can save that for a future date however. If you are a fan of the Shadow, then this is a blast from the past for you.
What is a lot of fun to watch is the cars, the clothing, the furniture and the architecture. It's amazing to see what life used to look like compared to today. It does not look like we have moved forward in many areas, but that is yet another article to be considered for the near future.
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| English: Media Player Classic MPC With Shadow No Numbers Icon (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Dan Dunn - Sunday Funnies
From the Sunday funny paper of yesteryear. Dan Dunn, ace detective. The man that went head to head with Dick Tracy as the character to follow for crime detective stories. Sunday Funnies right here on GVLN, bringing you incredible content everyday.
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| Chester Gould's cover for 1947 Quaker Puffed Wheat giveaway comic book reprinting early 1940s Dick Tracy strips. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
The Shadow - Sunday Comics
The Shadow comic from Chuck Thompson
From the Golden Age of comics comes this story of crime and suspense. The Shadow. This story goes along with our previous old time radio shows of the Shadow just below. Every Sunday we post comics and Sunday funnies. This week we are covering an old and vastly successful character of the past. Who know's what evil lurk's in men's hearts? The Shadow knows.
You can download a free copy of the e-comic form our SlideShare site. You will have to sign in with either a Facebook account or a LinkedIn account though. Check back to see what kind of exciting comics we bring you next Sunday. Stay tuned daily for more incredible content. GVLN, simply amazing.
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| DC Comics' The Shadow #1 (Nov. 1973). Cover art by Michael Kaluta. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
The Shadow - Old Time Radio Shows
Old time radio shows can be great fun. They take the mind to a different realm creating images in the mind without sight. It's a great way to once again learn how to listen. Old fashion entertainment before TV. Everyone used to gather around the radio to hear the latest stories. Radio programming worked the same way as TV programming presently works with new shows released on certain days at certain times. Where do you think TV got it's origins?
The Shadow. One of the most popular old time radio series ever. Even more so after radio shows ended. The Shadow also was popular in comics, movies and pulp fiction story magazines of the past. Enjoy these episodes. Old time radio, every Sunday right here on GVLN.
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| Orson Welles as The Shadow. A predecessor in the role delivered the show's intro, with its famous catchphrase, "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows ...." According to historian Frank Brady, Welles's "voice as the 'invisible' Shadow was perfect." The intro, however, also called for a sinister chuckle; Welles's effort "seemed more an adolescent giggle than a terrifying threat." Brady (1989), p. 78. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Old Time Photo Of The Week - What Is It?
What Is It?
A Huge Lamp;
The marvellous arrangement of lenses and prisms which enables the lighthouse to send out its guiding flashes, with the mechanism for turning it. Made for "Chilang" Lighthouse, China.
The world and inventions are an incredible discovery only a short distance away when one is willing to look for them. Discover, learn, change the world. GVLN, old time photo of the week.
YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011 Grand Finale - Concert of the week
Every Sunday we endeavor to bring you one of the world's most outstanding concerts. Today we continue that tradition with something we think that anyone who appreciates classical music will find this an incredible addition to the series here. 2 hours and 22 minutes long, it's a good bit of time to be sitting in front of your computer to watch this. We feel it's well worth the time. It's magnificent.
Even if you just stream it for the music, you will be glad you did. Enjoy. GVLN, Sunday Concert of the week.
Origin Of The Submarine, The Turtle, An American Invention From The1770's
Libert'ys Kids, episode number 15, The Turtle.
Is the story true? Well here are the historical facts.
SUBMARINES IN WAR AND PEACE
During the early part of the Spanish-American war a fleet of vessels patrolled the Atlantic coast from Florida to Maine. The Spanish Admiral Cervera had left the home waters with his fleet of cruisers and torpedo-boats and no one knew where they were. The lookouts on all the vessels were ordered to keep a sharp watch for strange ships, and especially for those having a warlike appearance. All the newspapers and letters received on board the different cruisers of the patrol fleet told of the anxiety felt in the coast towns and of the fear that the Spanish ships would appear suddenly and begin a bombardment. To add to the excitement and expectation, especially of the green crews, the men were frequently called out of their comfortable hammocks in the middle of the night, and sent to their stations at guns and ammunition magazines, just as if a battle was imminent; all this was for the purpose of familiarising the crews with their duties under war conditions, though no enlisted man knew whether he was called to quarters to fight or for drill.
These were the conditions, then, when one bright Sunday the crew of an auxiliary cruiser were very busy cleaning ship—a very thorough and absorbing business. While the men were in the thick of the scrubbing, one of the crew stood up to straighten his back, and looked out through an open port in the vessel's side. As he looked he caught a glimpse of a low, black craft, hardly five hundred yards off, coming straight for the cruiser. The water foamed at her bows and the black smoke poured out of her funnels, streaking behind her a long, sinister cloud. It was one of those venomous little torpedo-boats, and she was apparently rushing in at top speed to get within easy range of the large warship.
"A torpedo-boat is headed straight for us," cried the man at the port, and at the same moment came the call for general quarters.
As the men ran to their stations the word was passed from one to the other, "A Spanish torpedo-boat is headed for us."
With haste born of desperation the crew worked to get ready for action, and when all was ready, each man in his place, guns loaded, firing lanyards in hand, gun-trainers at the wheels, all was still—no command to fire was given.
From the signal-boys to the firemen in the stokehole—for news travels fast aboard ship—all were expecting the muffled report and the rending, tearing explosion of a torpedo under the ship's bottom. The terrible power of the torpedo was known to all, and the dread that filled the hearts of that waiting crew could not be put into words.
Of course it was a false alarm. The torpedo-boat flew the Stars and Stripes, but the heavy smoke concealed it, and the officers, perceiving the opportunities for testing the men, let it be believed that a boat belonging to the enemy was bearing down on them.
The crews of vessels engaged in future wars will have, not only swifter, surer torpedo-boats to menace them, but even more dreadful foes.
The conning towers of the submarines show but a foot or two above the surface—a sinister black spot on the water, like the dorsal fin of a shark, that suggests but does not reveal the cruel power below; for an instant the knob lingers above the surface while the steersman gets his bearings, and then it sinks in a swirling eddy, leaving no mark showing in what direction it has travelled. Then the crew of the exposed warship wait and wonder with a sickening cold fear in their hearts how soon the crash will come, and pray that the deadly submarine torpedo will miss its mark.
Submarine torpedo-boats are actual, practical working vessels to-day, and already they have to be considered in the naval plans for attack and defense.
Though the importance of submarines in warfare, and especially as a weapon of defense, is beginning to be thoroughly recognised, it took a long time to arouse the interest of naval men and the public generally sufficient to give the inventors the support they needed.
Americans once had within their grasp the means to blow some of their enemies' ships out of the water, but they did not realise it, as will be shown in the following, and for a hundred years the progress in this direction was hindered.
It was during the American Revolution that a man went below the surface of the waters of New York Harbour in a submarine boat just big enough to hold him, and in the darkness and gloom of the under-water world propelled his turtle-like craft toward the British ships anchored in mid-stream. On the outside shell of the craft rested a magazine with a heavy charge of gunpowder which the submarine navigator intended to screw fast to the bottom of a fifty-gun British man-of-war, and which was to be exploded by a time-fuse after he had got well out of harm's way.
Slowly and with infinite labour this first submarine navigator worked his way through the water in the first successful under-water boat, the crank-handle of the propelling screw in front of him, the helm at his side, and the crank-handle of the screw that raised or lowered the craft just above and in front. No other man had made a like voyage; he had little experience to guide him, and he lacked the confidence that a well-tried device assures; he was alone in a tiny vessel with but half an hour's supply of air, a great box of gunpowder over him, and a hostile fleet all around. It was a perilous position and he felt it. With his head in the little conning tower he was able to get a glimpse of the ship he was bent on destroying, as from time to time he raised his little craft to get his bearings. At last he reached his all-unsuspecting quarry and, sinking under the keel, tried to attach the torpedo. There in the darkness of the depths of North River this unnamed hero, in the first practical submarine boat, worked to make the first torpedo fast to the bottom of the enemy's ship, but a little iron plate or bolt holding the rudder in place made all the difference between a failure that few people ever heard of and a great achievement that would have made the inventor of the boat, David Bushnell, famous everywhere, and the navigator a great hero. The little iron plate, however, prevented the screw from taking hold, the tide carried the submarine past, and the chance was lost.
David Bushnell was too far ahead of his time, his invention was not appreciated, and the failure of his first attempt prevented him from getting the support he needed to demonstrate the usefulness of his under-water craft. The piece of iron in the keel of the British warship probably put back development of submarine boats many years, for Bushnell's boat contained many of the principles upon which the successful under-water craft of the present time are built.
One hundred and twenty-five years after the subsurface voyage described above, a steel boat, built like a whale but with a prow coming to a point, manned by a crew of six, travelling at an average rate of eight knots an hour, armed with five Whitehead torpedoes, and designed and built by Americans, passed directly over the spot where the first submarine boat attacked the British fleet.
By; Russell Doubleday, 1904.
So as you can see, the story on Liberty's Kids about the Turtle is very true and well done. The series is top notch and well researched. What a shame it was abandoned and no one wants to pick it back up. It gives a very sound foundation to the real events of the American Revolution.
What they don't teach you in the history or science classes of school. GVLN, Liberty Education Series.
Origin of Freedom of Religion - William Penn
Today we are beginning a new series. A series that shows the history of liberty, freedom , free thought, and the free exchange of ideas. It's a christian principle.
We have found this old movie above about William Penn and have ported it in to help give you a proper background. Different people have different ways of learning. With that, we are also posting one of our copies of William Penn e-books.
William Penn from Chuck Thompson
You can read it here online or download a copy from our SlideShare site. If you go to download a copy from SlideShare, you have to sign in to SlideShare with either a LinkedIn account or FaceBook account to get a copy. We are also offering free downloads here.
http://www.putlocker.com/file/328BE77BC4080FDE Free download link. Just click free user. Very fast download as it's less than half a meg in size.
What you won't find from us, bloated wild claims about history. We give you the real facts straight from the history books and we give you the history books. Opinions that seek to destroy knowledge is reserved for the other sites with writers to lazy to research the real truths and who have been poisoned by the propaganda of the day.
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Free downloads of the New Testament are also available from us. Same rules apply as above.
http://www.putlocker.com/file/B02F50D1BF2267FB Free download link.
We also have the New Testament on our e-book page. Always free copies.
America has been the battleground for freedom, liberty, free thought, and human rights for over 300 years and continues to be the world's battleground for such. Especially from within these days.
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