All’s Fair at the Fair
Max Fleischer gives us his cartoon tour of the 1938 World’s Fair:
View ArticleThe Reluctant Imperialist is Live on Amazon for Kindle
The Reluctant Imperialist: Italian Colonization in Somalia just went live at Kindle store at Amazon.com. This is a history of the early corporate-run attempts to colonize the region at the turn of the...
View ArticleHollow Earth Expedition: Some Resources for Shanghai
Really, for any pulp-type RPG set during the interwar period, here are a couple of excellent books to help with setting the scene in Shanghai, the Pearl of the Orient, the Paris of the East… The...
View ArticleThe Long Way Home
Here’s a little something for the Hollow Earth Expedition crowd — a wonderful story from the golden age of aviation:
View ArticleA Little Something For a Pulp RPG
As per NPR, archeologists have found the ruins of a ancient Cambodian city using remote-sensing technology. Mahendraparvata, a 1,200-year-old lost city that predates Cambodia’s famous Angkor Wat temple...
View ArticleThe Dynasphere! Why Ride Two Wheels When You Can Have One!
Something for the Hollow Earth Expedition crowd:
View ArticleThe Real Agent Carter: Phyllis “Pippa” Latour Doyle
Maybe she wasn’t based specifically on Doyle, or the hundreds of other women that served in OSS, SOE, and other agencies during the war, but it’s a worth title. The young New Zealander Doyle joined...
View ArticlePulp Stuff: 10 Floorplans from NYC Apartments
Here’s a site with flooplans for an assortment of pre-WWI apartment buildings in New York City that should be useful for pulp games set in the 1920-1940s.
View ArticleHow Sword Fighting Really Looked
Here’s a documentary Back to the Source from the Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA) regarding how traditional views of sword fighting were crafted by stage and movie performance, not reality.
View ArticleTimekeeping on Mars (and Earth)
I have a class I teach that deals with time and the creation of “time” as we think of it, but this video is a pretty good primer for those that haven’t thought about it. Time standardization wasn’t a...
View ArticleNewspapers of the International Settlement & French Concession
Here’s a bit of errata that didn’t make it into The Queen of the Orient. (There’s always room for a second edition, I suppose…) To keep up with events in the world and China, English-speaking visitors...
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