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Star Wars is driven by aesthetics. Part of the look of the franchise that is front and center has always been the blasters....

The title of the movie was changed to Return Of The Jedi before release, on George Lucas’ insistence because it made the Jedi sound too ominous and harsh....

Original artist RADMANRB deviantart page. If you like the drawing please give them a star or comment.

Source here. If you like the diorama I highly recommend giving the original creator a like or comment on their blog.

I know Dark Empire is not everybody’s favorite story, but it does have some neato stuff....

This is one of my favorite games. I still occasionally play it on a Nintendo 64, but the N64 controller isn’t great and I can’t easily screen capture gameplay....

I was reading Tales From The Mos Eisley Cantina book, and this guy got mentioned. I had a hard time visualizing him, so I went to wookipedia to check him out....

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for “Blame Canada”. The creaters, Matt Parker and Trey Stone decided that, “It’s a magical night tonight.”...

On June 17, 1994 celebrity and NFL player OJ Simpson had failed turn himself in to the LAPD in connection with the killing of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman....

Michael Dukakis was a Democrat candidate running for President in 1988. He had previously been criticized as being soft on national defense, so in September of that year he orchestrated a photo op in an M1 Abrams tank meant to toughen up his image....

The soldier on the left of the photo is holding an M20 series “Super Bazooka” which fires a 3.5 inch HEAT round, the M28 series , with a setback armed, base detonating fuse....

This is from a collection of 34 photographs that were in a book about World War 1, ‘Death in the Air: The War Dairy and Photographs of a Flying Corps Pilot’ published in 1933....

The Shinden was a plane first conceptualized by the Japanese military in 1943, and first flown on a test flight in 1945. Even before the test flight, the Japanese Navy had ordered production of the plane. However Japan’s surrender in 1945 stopped production, and in the end only two of the planes were produced. One was...

Full caption: Nov 5, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA: Attorney Frank Totti looks over papers while his client Frances Mountain sorts out Beanie Babies with her ex-husband Harold Mountain in Judge Gerald Hardcastle’s Family Courtroom in Las Vegas November 5. The couple, who were divorced four months ago, were ordered to divide up...

Excerpt: The Texas Superconducting Super Collider would have dwarfed CERN’s LHC, according to reports. It was designed as an enormous underground ring complex situated close to Waxahachie and had it been allowed to go forward, would have been considered the most energetic particle accelerator in the world. The project’s...

Excerpt: The Brooklyn Bridge has always been an icon. When its massive stone towers began rising in the early 1870s, photographers and illustrators began documenting what was considered the most daring and astounding engineering feat of the era....

Quick wikipedia summary: Soon after the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961, a stand-off occurred between US and Soviet tanks on either side of Checkpoint Charlie....

Excerpt: On this day in 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest at the side entrance of the Washington Hilton on Connecticut Avenue by John Hinckley Jr. Reagan was walking to his limousine after a speech to AFL-CIO leaders when Hinckley, 25, who was standing among a group of reporters, fired six shots, hitting Reagan...

A Quaker gun is a deception tactic that was commonly used in warfare during the 18th and 19th centuries. Although resembling an actual cannon, the Quaker gun was simply a wooden log, usually painted black, used to deceive an enemy. Misleading the enemy as to the strength of an emplacement was an effective delaying tactic. The...