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October 19, 2017October 19, 2017 toniAsia, birthday, historical figure, portrait, Science, US

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Nobel Astrophysicist, Birthday!

Described as a “child prodigy” and hailed as the first astrophysicist to win a Nobel Prize for his theory on the evolution of stars, Diwali on Thursday would have been Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar’s […]

October 16, 2017October 18, 2017 tonianniversary, history, military, US

Happy 242nd US Navy, 220th USS Constitution

It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious. — George […]

August 21, 2017July 22, 2018 tonihistorical figure, political, sage - thinker, Speech, US

R.F. Kennedy’s Great Speech for Humanity

We must recognize the full human equality of all of our people before God, before the law and in the councils of government. We must do this, not because it is economically advantageous…We must do it for the single and fundamental reason that it is the right thing to do.

June 4, 2016September 25, 2017 tonicelebrity, death, Personality, Philosophy, political, race, social, sports, US

Muhammad Ali, “Remember me…”

An unsurpassed legacy has reached its temporal conclusion.  The greatest sports figure and celebrity of the 20th century has passed.  Rather than mourn his death, we continue to celebrate his […]

April 24, 2016October 18, 2017 toniCulture, social, talk, US, video, writer

The End of Literacy and Reality in the Age of Trump

Pulitzer prize–winner Chris Hedges charts the dramatic and disturbing rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy and illusion. Chris Hedges argues that we now live in two societies: […]

February 20, 2016March 2, 2016 toniArt, artist, film, Media, painter, US, video

Animated Short by Salvador Dali and Walt Disney

  Destino An animated collaboration between Salvador Dali and  Walt Disney.  1946.  

February 20, 2016April 21, 2016 tonipeople, photo, Place, US

Mobile Theater | by Gordon Parks

The photograph was taken 2 years after the historic Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling segregation is unconstitutional.  Gordon Parks was an outstanding, prolific, African American, photographer who […]

December 19, 2015 toniNature, photo, Place, Science, US

First, Best Images of Pluto | NASA

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has sent back the first in a series of the sharpest views of Pluto it obtained during its July flyby – and the best close-ups of […]

November 4, 2014October 30, 2017 toniEast Asia, ethnic or cultural, Event, film, history, military, Science, social, US, video

Gojira, what Godzilla is in the words of the Japanese

“Godzilla represents the complicity of mankind in its own destruction.” Godzilla does not feel emotion…Godzilla is emotion ~ Jun Fukuda, director Godzilla could not be defeated by the weapons that […]

August 20, 2014September 10, 2014 toniPhotography, US, writer

Whitman in color

  A stunning piece.   A colorized portrait of Walt Whitmanm.   So well done, long surpassing the pink color of past works.   Very life-like, especially the transparent blue […]

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