thesweetestpsychopath: i12bent: Maragret Bourke-White: FOR COLORED sign atop round Coca-Cola sign tacked to a wooden Star of David in front of BOOKER TEA WASHINGTON store effecting a cruel display of racist condescension in the land of segregation. - Elkridge, MD, US, 1938; LIFE Mag. BOOKER TEA WASHINGTON: FOR COLORED Coca-Cola

thesweetestpsychopath:

i12bent:

Maragret Bourke-White: FOR COLORED sign atop round Coca-Cola sign tacked to a wooden Star of David in front of BOOKER TEA WASHINGTON store effecting a cruel display of racist condescension in the land of segregation. - Elkridge, MD, US, 1938; LIFE Mag.

BOOKER TEA WASHINGTON: FOR COLORED

Coca-Cola



thedailywhat: Letter Of Note of the Day: A telegram from former U.S. Naval Operations Chief, Admiral Edward W. Eberle, cabled to all Naval stations on August 22, 1924, ahead of an extremely close Mars opposition, requesting that airwaves be monitored for potential Martian contact. [via.] TRANSCRIPT: WASHINGTON-ALASKA MILITARY CABLE AND TELEGRAPH SYSTEM: TELEGRAM RECEIVED At 1308 1st Avenue, Seattle, Wash. 18RD B 78 GOVT DUPE RD PUGETSOUND WN AUG 22 1924 | GOVT COMDT 13 NAV DIST 158 SEATTLE WN 7021 ALNAVST EIGHT NAVY DESIRE COOPERAT ASTRONOMERS WHO BELIEVE POSSIBLE THAT MARS MAY ATTEMPT COMMUNICATION BY RADIO WAVES WITH THIS PLANE WHILE THEY ARE NEAR TOGETHER THIS END ALL SHORE RADIO STATIONS WILL ESPECIALLY NOTE AND REPORT ANY ELECTRICAL PHENOMENON UNUSUAL CHARACTER AND WILL COVER AS WIDE BAND FREQUENCIES AS POSSIBLE FROM 2400 AUGUST TWENTY FIRST TO 2400 AUGUST TWENTY FOURTH WITHOUT INTERFERRING (sic) WITH TRAFFIC 1800 SECNAV WASHN DC 257P

thedailywhat:

Letter Of Note of the Day: A telegram from former U.S. Naval Operations Chief, Admiral Edward W. Eberle, cabled to all Naval stations on August 22, 1924, ahead of an extremely close Mars opposition, requesting that airwaves be monitored for potential Martian contact.

[via.]

TRANSCRIPT:

WASHINGTON-ALASKA MILITARY CABLE AND TELEGRAPH SYSTEM: TELEGRAM

RECEIVED At 1308 1st Avenue, Seattle, Wash.

18RD B 78 GOVT DUPE

RD PUGETSOUND WN AUG 22 1924 | GOVT COMDT 13 NAV DIST 158 SEATTLE WN

7021 ALNAVST EIGHT NAVY DESIRE COOPERAT ASTRONOMERS WHO BELIEVE POSSIBLE THAT MARS MAY ATTEMPT COMMUNICATION BY RADIO WAVES WITH THIS PLANE WHILE THEY ARE NEAR TOGETHER THIS END ALL SHORE RADIO STATIONS WILL ESPECIALLY NOTE AND REPORT ANY ELECTRICAL PHENOMENON UNUSUAL CHARACTER AND WILL COVER AS WIDE BAND FREQUENCIES AS POSSIBLE FROM 2400 AUGUST TWENTY FIRST TO 2400 AUGUST TWENTY FOURTH WITHOUT INTERFERRING (sic) WITH TRAFFIC 1800

SECNAV WASHN DC

257P



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