The Wall
…no not the one Roger Waters talked about.
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Category: History
A History of The Six-gun, Part Four
Our story continues as Smith & Wesson pushes into the world of new-fangled metallic cartridges. Meanwhile, Colt was fixing to blow everyone’s doors off.
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A History of The Six-gun, Part Three
Turns out Sam Colt wasn’t the only guy interested in building sixguns. There was this Remington fellow up in New York, a guy named LeMat in Louisiana, and these two guys from Massachusetts named Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson. In the sixgun world in the late 1850s, some cages were fixin’ to get rattled.
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The Canonical Top Ten List of 2018
In case you were wondering what the ten best of 2018 was, Leap is here to fill you with correct knowledge.
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A History of The Six-gun, Part Two
Sam Colt made an impact with the Paterson revolvers, but that impact was short-lived. It was enough, though, to get a young Captain named Sam Walker interested. Captain Walker went north to see Sam Colt. “We need more revolvers for our new Republic of Texas,” Walker said. “Hold my beer,” replied Sam Colt, and the rest is history. Read that history here.
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A History of The Six-gun, Part One
Revolvers! We know them, we love them, but how many know the history of the wheelgun? Animal does, and he’s here to tell ya.
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The Day Civilization Fell
All it took was a simple bacterial contaminant.
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And God Stepped out on Space
The first in a three-part subseries.
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No, Not That Springfield Armory. The Other Springfield Armory.
Ever wanted to know where you could cast your optics on hundreds of cool old guns? Well, I’m a-gonna tell you.
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The Three Way Contour
Sensei shares some family (and timepiece) history
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The Keystone
The importance of the Book of Mormon to the Church cannot be overstated.
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D-Day, 1944 pt. 6/7 – A bunch of stuff – And Water!
Wanna see some water? Yusef’s got water!
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Civil War II: Antifa Boogaloo (The third edition)
Occasionally, it’s good to see where we stand in regards to our political infighting in the good ol’ US of A turning into armed conflict.
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When Timepieces Were Made to Last
Sensei has a timeless post.
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Mormons in the Mist: Had for Good or Evil
You cannot discuss The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints without dealing with Joseph Smith, Jr.
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D-Day, 1944 pt. 5 – The Atlantic Wall
Things are coming along!
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The Beer Wars: An Incomplete History of the American Beer Industry (pt 1)
This is part one in a series of the Beer Wars in America.
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The Problem with Aggregation, Part 2 of an… Aggregation
In the second installment in the Problem with Aggregation, Leap complains about things.
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REALLY Old Guy Music: A Brief, Poorly Sourced, and Probably Wildly Inaccurate History of Easy Listening, Exotica, and Other Neglected Musical Genres
Relax, pour a drink, sit back and enjoy.
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D-Day, 1944 pt. 4 – Modeling
Yusef Drives a Kia has a little time to file a report from the front.
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