|| 10/31/2009 || 1:20 pm || + Render A Comment || ||
A Diagrammatic Photograph Showing The American Warship, The Delaware, Blowing Up New York City
Talk about a scary Halloween! This graphic features a new American warship, the Delaware, bombing New York City. The transcription is as follows:
The New York Tribune, Sunday, October 31st, 1909
TWELVE-MILE RANGE OVER WHICH OUR NEW DREADNOUGHT COULD SCATTER DEATH AND DESTRUCTION
Besides demonstrating last week, by attaining a speed 21.98 knots, that she is the fastest first class battleship ever made, the Delaware has the most powerful battery in the service. From each of her ten 12-inch guns of the largest type she can throw a shell weighing 870 pounds to a distance of twelve miles, or from below the Narrows, down the Bay, into City Hall Park, and a little beyond. After traversing 9,000 yards these shells can still penetrate eleven inches of solid steel.
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|| 8/28/2009 || 10:20 pm || + Render A Comment || ||
Paragraph From “Poetry and Power” by John F. Kennedy [February 1964, The Atlantic]
When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses, for art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artists, however faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an officious state. The great artist is thus a solitary figure.
– John F. Kennedy in a posthumously published article about poet Robert Frost.
