These are "advanced" tank prototypes that were being designed and evaluated in anticipation of mass manufacture in US factories in an effort to send massive numbers to France in support of Haigs enormous Plan 1919 offensive.
The highest rank in the United States army is "General of the Army", the rank held by Eisenhower, and US Grant, and McArthur. This prescribes a 5 star rank insignia and some other perks, and the responsibility of overall direction of the or a, war effort, usuall limited to a given theater, and is familiar to most people as the highest general rank of our republic...except it isn't. Two extraordinary men have been elevated, intentionally, even beyond these dizzy heights, by act of Congress. The Rank is titled "General of The Armies", and was awarded to Washington, and to John .J.
one of the first Army trucks in the world the FWD was a brute of a vehicle in it's time, 4 cylinders with one of the first production 4 wheel drive systems on the road. This was the supply truck that Pershing took into Mexico to hunt Pancho Villa. They powered the AEF, and the Brits through WWi, and built US infrastructure in the 20s, a great many doing civic services in the post war era throughout the 20s.
There has been a slow accumulation of evidence over the past 3 or 4 decades that the drive wheels of the agricultural revolution in the neolithic was spurred, not by the effort to build a food surplus but instead to control beer production required for rituals, probably funereal rituals, and a transition from ancestor worship to diety worship requiring larger community "potlach" type feasting.
been chilling with water colors and prismacolor pencils. Working slowly through two color and cut books of european houses for Ornria games and diorama photo stories. Here is a bakery half done, you can see how the left fascade looks with pencil over the watercolor. The right fascade or rear of the house has only the raw watercolor.
primitive film, exhibitions, panoramas, and the like. Here is the script of a show about Teddy and San Juan. Sadly the original images are lost, but It seems to have been a form of candle-lantern type slide show with some kind of film component provided by the Great Stephen Crane of Red Badge of Courage fame.
