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Amazing Filtered Things

emmineb — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:58:14 GMT

These photos were scanned by Alexander Kalion from original black and white photos of Soviet Era Russia. Province, early 1980s.

Edward Tufte: Posters and Graph Paper Napoleon's March

emmineb — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:11:50 GMT

<> <> Probably the best statistical graphic ever drawn, this map by Charles Joseph Minard portrays the losses suffered by Napoleon's army in the Russian campaign of 1812. Beginning at the Polish-Russian border, the thick band shows the size of the army at each position. The path of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow in the bitterly cold winter is depicted by the dark lower band, which is tied to temperature and time scales. Exquisitely printed in two colors on fine archival paper, 22” by 15

MetaFilter - Soviet Era Art

emmineb — Mon, 07 May 2007 20:46:01 GMT

Metafilter's own Fake, Dan Reetz, recently spent several months in the former Soviet Union; while there he managed to round up this great selection of Soviet Movie posters from 1921-1973, as well as this interesting 1952 set of food drawings from the government produced book "Tasty & Healthy Eating." Finally, bonus content for anyone jonesing for more soviet content, this Russian Winnie the Pooh cartoon from the 1970s is fantastic.

English Russia » Holes in the Ground

emmineb — Fri, 25 May 2007 07:32:46 GMT

From the end of 1980s a strange phenomena is happening in some Russian forests. People find strange, deep holes. They appear in the dense forest, in the places you can’t get on the car or truck to bring any device to drill the ground. There is no any soil that should be taken from such deep holes is found. On this pictures people go down to one of such holes but it just finishes with nothing. There are no any reasonable ideas on how these holes appear and what they are being used for.

Casualties Due to the Blast, Heat, and Radioactive Fallout from Various Hypothetical Nuclear Attacks on the United States

emmineb — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 06:08:23 GMT

The Medical Implications of Nuclear War - NCBI Bookshelf We have developed the tools for calculating the deaths and injuries due to blast, thermal effects, and local fallout from hypothetical nuclear attacks on the United States. This is the first time that the capability to do such consequence calculations has existed outside the (mostly classified) government domain. We have used this capability to explore the sensitivities of the consequences of a nuclear attack to various assumptions. The first was the sensitivity to the types of targets involved. We examined three different hypothetical ''limited" nuclear attacks on the United States, each involving a 1-megaton (Mt) airburst over approximately 100 targets of three different types: The city centers

The Russian market from start to crash

emmineb — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 11:49:20 GMT

Memo to Sherry Jones from Andrew Meier/Moscow, 2/2/99 [Meier works in Time's Moscow bureau and is the author of "Russia in the Red,"Harper's, June 1999. Sherry Jones is the producer of FRONTLINE 's documentary, "The Crash."]