Sleek, sexy and happening, this blood orange portable typewriter in its custom case embodies the epitome of cool as the accessory of the on-the-go jet setting people of the early seventies. These happening folks needed to be ready anywhere in the world to write letters and notes using Olivetti’s distinct neat type font.
50 years ago today an attempt to cross a bridge in Alabama in a peaceful civil rights march ended in “Bloody Sunday”
In the beginning of 1965, civil rights activists organized the three protest marches to walk the 54-mile highway from Selma to the Alabama state capital of Montgomery to show the desire of black American citizens to exercise their constitutional right to vote, in defiance of segregationist repression.
From “The Flintstones” to Modern Man:
How a sharp flint became a tool and transformed us into Homo Sapiens.
Stone hand ax found by my father in Kenya in the early 1960’s
I remember visiting a place called the Olduvai Gorge with my parents in Kenya where a Doctor Louis Leakey, a paleoanthropologist and archaeologist, with his wife Mary were making groundbreaking fossil discoveries. You could drive up there in a cloud of dust, jump out of the car and converse with him about their finds!
What would we do without the “BEEB”, i.e. short for the BBC?
The original Broadcasting House in London
Don’t get me wrong, the other Brit channels are great too, and some “foreign” channels also, but the Power House of quality television is in my opinion the British Broadcasting Company…
Hurray for the BBC Iplayer app for your Ipad, a wealth of quality TV for a few dollars per month…
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