Yearly Archive: 2016

The German Military Connections of Rudolf the Victorious in H.G. Wells’s “Things to Come”

January 6, 2016

In the mid 1930’s, noted writer, historian, and social commentator H.G. Wells, among the world’s most famous men of letters of the day, teamed up with producer Alexander Korda and director William Cameron Menzies to produce what would become the…
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Alexander Korda, Everytown, Fritz Lang, General, German Army, H.G. Wells, Metropolis, Ralph Richardson, Rudolf the Victorious, The Boss, Things to Come, Uncategorized, William Cameron Menzies

Mystery Soviet Headgear from the Ethio-Somali War, 1977-1978?

January 5, 2016

My late father collected international police and law enforcement related headgear, and by the time of his death in April 2015, had amassed a respectable collection. His most exotic examples were a Baden Police spike helmet (circa 1900), a plumed…
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Africa Orientale Italiana, Cuba, Dervish, EPRDF, Ethio-Somali War, Ethiopia, Italian Somaliland, La Grande Somalia, Mohammad Abdullah Hassan, Ogaden War, Romania, Somali, South Yemen, Soviet Union, Uncategorized