RESTORATION RIFFS
ENGLAND’S DISSATISFACTION with Puritan Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell, 1599–1658, led to more than the people’s exhuming his body in 1661, hanging it in chains, beheading it, and then losing the … Continue reading
A DIMINUTIVE V-8 KNOWN AS OTTO VU
WE TEND TO think of V-8s as big engines: Even the “small-block” Chevy had displacements ranging from 262 cu. in. (4.3 liters) to 400 cu. in. (6.6 liters). The 427 … Continue reading
BENTLEY’S WINGED BRETHREN
GIVEN BENTLEY’S EMBLEM, it’s no surprise that this classic marque was photographed with other winged companions. On the Road was Bentley Motors’ magazine in the 1930s, and in 2003 Dalton … Continue reading
GEORGIA O’KEEFFE’S PAINTINGS HAVE ACNE
FOR A LONG TIME, it was thought that the paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe contained specks of sand traceable to her beloved New Mexico environs. But, over time, these specks were … Continue reading
AH, THOSE “GOOD OLD DAYS”….
TWO RECENT HAPPENINGS remind me that those “good old days,” the Fifties and early Sixties, were hardly the stress-free idylls nostalgically recalled. Nor am I talking about misogyny and racism. … Continue reading
CAPTURING IMAGES OF AIR
DIFFERENT DENSITIES of air cause differing refractions of light. This scintillation is what causes shimmering images of hot landscapes on a sunny day. Capturing such images is challenging, but NASA … Continue reading
PHYL COE—A RADIO NANCY DREW, A FRIEND OF SUPERMAN PART 2
OUR STARS of the Phyl Coe Radio Mysteries were introduced yesterday in Part 1 here at SimanaitisSays. Today in Part 2, let’s see how Philco (“Phyl Coe,” get it?) hyped … Continue reading
PHYL COE—A RADIO NANCY DREW, A FRIEND OF SUPERMAN PART 1
OLD-TIME RADIO mysteries can lead to other revelations. Recently Sirius XM “Radio Classics” offered “Murder in the Sky,” a Phyl Coe Radio Mysteries program originally broadcast on September 28, 1937. … Continue reading
GREAT WHITE SHARKS HAVE GREAT DNA TOO
THERE’S IRONY yet comfort in learning that the great white shark, Carcharodon cacharias, possesses characteristics that may prove beneficial to humans. According to BBC News, February 19, 2019, the understanding … Continue reading
WELCOMING NEW (AND OLD) WORDS TO THE OED
I MUST confess that our family Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, 1971, is appearing smaller and smaller each month. The OED’s official website has cited “New Words in … Continue reading
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