On October 31, 1917, the Australian Light Brigade charged Turkish trenches with bayonets at Beersheba (historical background here), a town in the Negev Desert in modern-day southern Israel (more information here), producing a dramatic British victory. Movie rendition, with background music of “[...]
Archive for April, 2021
April 6th, 2021 - 12:57 am § in Misc.
Bach’s Tocatta and Fugue (video)
Organ composition, (background here), played by Varnus Xavér (bio here) on the Berlin Cathedral’s Sauer Organ (read about it here); running time, 12 min. 10 sec. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Clinton’s CIA director “open” to UFOs
R. James Woolsey (photo left, bio here), who ran the CIA from 1993 to 1995, says he’s “open” to the possibility of alien life, and claims, “There are a lot more sightings than have been made public,” the U.K.-based tabloid Daily Mail reported on Monday, April 5, 2021. T[...]
Russia’s arctic military buildup
“Russia is amassing unprecedented military might in the Arctic,” CNN reported on Monday, April 5, 2021. Satellite photos show “a stark and continuous build-up of Russian military bases and hardware on the country’s Arctic coastline, together with underground storage facilitie[...]
April 5th, 2021 - 12:26 am § in Russia
Russia’s “apocalypse” weapon is real
Weapons experts and Western officials are expressing “particular concern” about a new Russian “super-weapon,” a reactor-powered stealth torpedo called the “Poseidon” designed to sneak past coastal defenses and “inundate U.S. coastal cities with radioactive t[...]
April 4th, 2021 - 6:52 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
How the Trump campaign ripped off unwitting donors
“Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign reportedly issued a total of roughly $122 million in refunds to supporters in 2020,” in many cases because of deceptive fundraising tactics, The Hill reported on Saturday, April 3, 2021. The campaign’s tactics included setting up “recurring[...]
April 4th, 2021 - 2:14 pm § in Misc.
Communal art project
This mural wasn’t intended to be a group effort, but it is now. Probably doubled in value, too. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Hunter Biden smokes parmesan cheese
“I probably smoked more parmesan cheese than anyone that you know,” Hunter Biden (photo, left) told an interviewer on Easter Sunday, April 4, 2021 (read story here). His father, he said, told him “you’re not fine” and staged an intervention. I would, too, if my kid wa[...]
April 4th, 2021 - 1:18 pm § in America, Donald Trump, Economics, Humor, Misc., News Media, Politics, Racism, Schools & Colleges
Bad, bad boomers!
“I’m not a fan of baby boomers,” begins this Vox article. “And no, it’s not really fair to paint an entire generation with the same brush, but I’m doing it anyway,” the writer — somebody I’ve never heard of — continues. “Hopefully, the boomers wi[...]