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Band of Brothers, Culp's Hill, Battle of Gettysburg, July 3, 1863. Oil on canvas by Don Troiani. 1993. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 41 minutes ago

According to various pages online, this represents:

July 3, 1863, the brave men of the 1st Maryland emerge from the wood line into a wall of musketry on Culp's Hill at Gettysburg.

aka

the 1st Maryland Battalion CS attack on Union fortifications on Culp’s Hill.

It's a little confusing because both sides had a "1st Maryland" unit at Gettysburg, and the Confederate 1st Maryland was renamed (and is often called) the 2nd Maryland. I think the relevant wikipedia page is here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_Maryland_Infantry_Regiment_(Confederate)#Battle_of_Gettysburg

Johnson's division, including the 1st Maryland, arrived at Gettysburg late in the afternoon on July 1, 1863, taking position on the far edge of the Confederate left at the foot of Culp's Hill; the men were exhausted after a 130-mile forced march.[4] Culp's Hill was a rocky wooded hill topped by a line of well fortified enemy breastworks.

On July 2 the Confederates attacked the hill, with the 1st Maryland, the 10th, 23rd and 37th Virginia regiments, and 3rd North Carolina regiment, all assaulting the Union breastworks, defended by General George S. Greene's 12th Corps. The Marylanders and others were initially able to breach the works and drive out Green's men, and they held their position until the next morning, July 3.

The morning of July 3 revealed the full scale of the Union defenses, as enemy artillery opened fire at a distance of 500 yards with a "terrific and galling fire", followed by a ferocious assault on the Marylander's position.[4] The result was a "terrible slaughter" of the Third Brigade, which fought for many hours without relief, exhausting their ammunition, but successfully holding their position.[4] Then, late on the morning of July 3, General Johnson ordered a bayonet charge against the well-fortified enemy lines. Steuart was appalled, and was strongly critical of the attack, but direct orders could not be disobeyed.[9] The Third Brigade attempted several times to wrest control of Culp's Hill, a vital part of the Union Army defensive line, and the result was a "slaughterpen",[4] as the First Maryland and the Third North Carolina regiments courageously charged a well-defended position strongly held by three brigades, a few reaching within twenty paces of the enemy lines.[4] So severe were the casualties among his men that Steuart is said to have broken down and wept, wringing his hands and crying "my poor boys".[8] Overall, the failed attack on Culp's Hill cost Johnson's division almost 2,000 men, of which 700 were accounted for by Steuart's brigade alone—far more than any other brigade in the division. At Hagerstown, on the 8th July, out of a pre-battle strength of 2,200, just 1,200 men reported for duty.[4] The casualty rate among the First Maryland and Third North Carolina was between one half and two-thirds, in the space of just ten hours.[2][4]

Candid Picture in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Have you shown your nephew one of the animated Robocop series yet?

https://lemmy.world/post/17894312

Candid Picture in c/[email protected]
Documentary explores Portland’s reputation as the ‘strip club capital of America’ in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

I visited Portland as a kid in the late 90s. Everybody was really cool and down-to-earth, but one thing I noticed was how normalized outdoor spitting was. Like one time I saw an attractive person across the street, and we were checking each other out, and then they leaned over and spat while maintaining eye contact. I'm pretty sure there was no communicative intent, they just needed to spit.

"The Crow" Reboot Hits PVOD Next Week in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I dunno, I bet it'd be OK as background if you turned the sound off and just played NIN's "Ghosts" instead. Wait no I take it back, those actors just plain look annoying.

Anarchy Easter Eggs in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

You may be thinking of 'Pataphysics:

the science of that which is superinduced upon metaphysics, whether within or beyond the latter's limitations, extending as far beyond metaphysics as the latter extends beyond physics

Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

Maybe he can get a bot to do time for him.

LL Cool J - Rock the Bells in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

"LL Cool J is hard as HELL!" Yeah, I was starvin like Marvin for a Cool J song. Got to listen to 6 Minutes of Pleasure next.

Anarchy Easter Eggs in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Surrealism is always antifascist.

I dunno. Doublethink is pretty surreal, but it supports fascism. If you're just talking about art, I think you could make the case that the Italian Futurists were at least Surrealist-adjacent, and some of them supported fascism.

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Everett True scorns Big Business Politicians (September 7, 1914) (lemmy.world)
 

Printed 110 years ago today in The Day Book of Chicago Illinois: https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/iune/batch_iune_golf_ver01/data/sn83045487/00280761291/1914090701/0164.pdf

Besides the two posted so far, the Library of Congress has another two E. True cartoons printed September 7, 1914:

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Everett True said NO (Sept 7, 1914) (lemmy.world)
 

This was printed 110 years ago today, in the Tacoma Times: https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wa/batch_wa_fir_ver01/data/sn88085187/00211108381/1914090701/0687.pdf

It was a Monday, Labor Day for that year. Elsewhere on that page is a cartoon referencing the war in Europe that had just started:

That war would eventually be called World War I. People killed or wounded: around 40 million.

SF Bay Area teen wins USA Mullet Championship with his 'West Coast wave' hairdo in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I watched that gif like 10 times, hypnotized, until I even noticed the bottle-top coming off.

Disney-obsessed couple lose lawsuit to get back into exclusive Club 33 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Insufferable couple vs insufferable corporation.

SF Bay Area teen wins USA Mullet Championship with his 'West Coast wave' hairdo in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

At last, more content suitable for cross-posting to [email protected].

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What else was I to do? [comic issue, 11 pages] (lemmy.sdf.org)
 

Intro by Rolando: I recently compared Jim Woodring to @[email protected]'s work on [email protected], and @[email protected] suggested I post something here about it, since pmjv's European. So here is a cross-post of one of pmjv's more accessible pieces. For more info about what's going on, see: https://analognowhere.com/log/2022-04-30/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/21198712

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Sarah T - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic (1975 480p) - Mark Hamill and Linda Blair early roles (www.youtube.com)
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This is a TV movie about a high-school girl who has a problem with alcohol. It's not a bad example of the "after school special" genre, but it's mainly interesting because of the actors in it.

Mark Hamill plays the boyfriend of the main character. This was a couple years before Star Wars (and far, far away from the abominations that Disney would later produce).

Linda Blair plays the main character; she'd recently starred in The Exorcist, had been doing a number of supporting roles in films, and would go on to make a series of horror films.

Other actors of interest include Larry Hagman who had a number of other successful TV roles such as "I Dream of Jeannie" and "Dallas", and William Daniels who did the voice of KITT the talking car in Knight Rider.

Other than that, the "70s mood" abounds...

edit: BONUS FILM: "Cocaine: One Man's Seduction" (1983 480p) - another TV movie, this time about the perils of powder cocaine. James Spader plays a supporting character in an early role.

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Insane Clown Posse - Nobody's Fault (www.youtube.com)
 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insane_Clown_Posse

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Platoon (1986 1080p) - Oliver Stone, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen (www.dailymotion.com)
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Platoon is a 1986 American war film written and directed by Oliver Stone, starring Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Keith David, Kevin Dillon, John C. McGinley, Forest Whitaker, and Johnny Depp. ... The film, based on Stone's experience from the [Vietnam] war, follows a new U.S. Army volunteer (Sheen) serving in Vietnam while his Platoon Sergeant and his Squad Leader (Berenger and Dafoe) argue over the morality in the platoon and of the war itself. ...

...On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 89% based on 120 reviews, with an average rating of 8.5/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Informed by director Oliver Stone's personal experiences in Vietnam, Platoon forgoes easy sermonizing in favor of a harrowing, ground-level view of war, bolstered by no-holds-barred performances from Charlie Sheen and Willem Dafoe."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platoon_(film)

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Everett True plays it safe (September 2, 1920) (lemmy.world)
 

This was printed in "The West Virginian" of Fairmont West Virginia 104 years ago today.

I don't know how cartoon syndication worked back then, but the Library of Congress has four E-Tru comics that came out on Sept 2 1920:

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Everett True cannot abide mouthfull talkers (September 2, 1920) (lemmy.world)
 

I don't know how cartoon syndication worked back then, but this was printed in the Daily Graphic of Pine Bluff Arkansas on September 2, 1920, exactly 104 years ago today.

According to the rest of the newspaper page, there was a 49 cent sale on cloth for making kid's "back to school" clothing:

https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/arhi/batch_arhi_littlefeat_ver01/data/sn89051168/00393343552/1920090201/0725.pdf

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Everett True will smite reckless fool drivers (Sept 1, 1914) (lemmy.world)
 

This cartoon was printed 110 years ago today on September 1, 1914.

World War 1 was in progress, though it wasn't called that yet. On the Western Front, Imperial Germany's invasion was underway and the French and British armies had been in retreat for almost a week. Among the engagements of this day was a skirmish near Néry, where a dismounted British cavalry division fought a dismounted German cavalry division. The outnumbered British forces prevailed, and three British soldiers were later awarded the prestigious Victoria Cross. The French and British forces continued to retreat, but they were doing so in an orderly manner, and in a few days they would be ready to counterattack in one of the most significant battles of the century.

Meanwhile, in rapidly-urbanizing America, Everett True was beginning to wonder if cars were a good idea after all.

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Rocky III (1982 1080p) (www.dailymotion.com)
 

Rocky III holds a score of 66% rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes based on 44 reviews, with an average of 5.7/10. The film's consensus reads, "It's noticeably subject to the law of diminishing returns, but Rocky III still has enough brawny spectacle to stand in the ring with the franchise's better entries". ... Gene Siskel gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four and wrote, "Sorry to say this, but there's not anything new in Rocky III, and we sit there wondering why it exists."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_III

OK, I'll tell you why it exists.

A. Hulk Hogan. Sure, the guy's made racist, homophobic, and pro-Trump comments. But this movie came out before any of that, and every second he's on screen is magic.

B. Mr. T. I pity the fool who hasn't seen him in action. Playing a character with as much personality as Clubber Lang takes effort, hard-earned skill, and raw talent.

C. Carl Weathers as Apollo Creed, teaming up with Rocky, lending him his boxer shorts, taking him to train in LA and dropping some fundamental knowledge including:

D. The Eye of the Tiger. The king of all training montage sountracks. If you're preparing for something and this comes on, you know you can't fail.

There's also a fun "Rocky being successful" montage where he goes on the Muppet Show and poses with motorcycles while Clubber Lang prepares to beat him down. And some great supporting roles from Burt Young and Burgess Meredith. Besides that, sure, it's a formula Rocky film but there's nothing wrong with that.

When someone praises Reddit on Lemmy:

BONUS FILM

Over the Top (1987) - Stallone plays a trucker single father who bonds with his kid over the sport of arm-wrestling

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Everett True is a big-mouthed brute (October 11, 1905) (lemmy.world)
 

I know this much is True: https://www.loc.gov/collections/chronicling-america/?qs=outbursts+of+everett+true&ops=%7E5&searchType=advanced&dl=page&start_date=1905-01-01&end_date=1963-10-31&sb=date

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Woe betide those who prank Everett True (August 4, 1916) (lemmy.world)
 

Seek what is True here: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/?date1=1777&rows=50&searchType=basic&state=&date2=1963&proxtext=Outbursts+of+Everett+True&y=13&x=19&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1&sort=date

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