#Philbrick

[burr-did-nothing-wrong]

Love it when historians are collectively like “yeah we have no idea why tf he did that, it made no sense and it was really bad for him”

[commodorez]

This would be the one-of-a-kind analog computer from 1958 designed by George Philbrick, at the Vintage Computer Federation's museum in Wall, NJ. It's been rearranged to better reflect an operational configuration for display in the past few years.

[the-golden-vanity]

You're gonna need a bigger boat bookshelf.

[babydriverseeseverything]

[illustratus]

In the Heart of the Sea (2015)

[silvyadrakkon]

Finally got this done. I think when I do these in the future, I'll post three at a time or something. I couldn't wait to show everyone the ones I had done, but I had to wait so I could finish the rest.

I realize now that the magic I drew got progressively bigger with each character lol. Whoops Nettie: @ladyofsappho Chris: @diana-bluewolf Cori: friend of @dwightschrute11 Lizzy: @operation-pez Inger: @ethniee (I stumbled across your Yule Ball mood board and couldn't resist.) Johanna: @roses-fromtears1

For Johanna and Cori, I forgot to verify eye colors, and it's so hard to tell on the screenshots. Lemme know if I got them wrong, and I'll change them out easy peasy.

[superiorstr8men]

[in-love-with-movies]

In the Heart of the Sea (2015)

[iron-idols]

Carlos Philbrick

[tracthousing]

Samson Dauda is amazed by Carlos Philbrick…

[wrestlehead]

Carlos Philbrick

[burr-did-nothing-wrong]

Damn Philbrick is really starting this book with “Philadelphia was a lawless shithole”

[deadpresidents]

Could you recommend any books like Black Hawk Down about military battles that are real detailed and feel like novels like Black Hawk Down did?

That's a pretty high bar that you're setting! Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down (BOOK | KINDLE) is one of the best books of that genre of the last few decades.

Obviously, there are tons of great books about military conflicts and specific battles, but I think I understand what you're looking for. Instead of the more history-focused studies, you are thinking of something vivid that feels like the author was embedded with the troops, right? Here are a few that come to mind: 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi by Mitchell Zuckoff and the Annex Security Team (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) I'm a fan of many of Mitchell Zuckoff's books. He's a great writer and his books usually end up being really exciting and impossible to put down. I wasn't all that hyped to read about what happened in Benghazi because it was such a tragedy and dark moment in the Obama Administration, but Zuckoff (with the help of the surviving team of CIA contractors and special operators who were involved in that battle) wrote an incredible book. It's obvious why they quickly made this book into a film. It's one of those books that you basically have to read in one sitting because it's such an intense experience.

Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan by Doug Stanton (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) Another book that was turned into a film (12 Strong), this is the story of the small teams of special operators and CIA paramilitary officers who went into Afghanistan just a few weeks after 9/11. The teams -- usually of less than a dozen men -- met up with Afghan tribal leaders who had been fighting against the Taliban for years, and started what would eventually become the War on Terror. They were in such remote, hard-to-navigate terrain that they ended up riding into battle with their Afghan warlord allies on HORSES.

First Casualty: The Untold Story of the CIA Mission to Avenge 9/11 by Toby Harnden (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) Harnden's book is also focused on those small CIA teams that were covertly inserted into Afghanistan immediately after 9/11 and laid the groundwork for the eventual U.S. invasion, with a particular focus on the first American casualty in the War on Terror, Mike Spann, a CIA agent killed during an uprising by prisoners (including American Taliban John Walker Lindh).

The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) Nat Philbrick's books are always vivid and feel like novels. They also feel like they were written by someone who witnessed everything being written about, even if they happened 150 years earlier. The Last Stand is a familiar story, but written with fresh eyes and extensive research, and I think the result is a different experience of something you may feel like you already know everything about. Here's my original review of the book from 2011.

[jin-jamm-desu]

"My father was a magician. He heard the words 'birth defect', and disappeared."

- Kevin/Freak, Freak the Mighty (Rodman Philbrick, 1993)

FREAK, YOU LITTLE SHIT, I LOVE YOU

[ubermuscle]

[thoughtfulfangirling]

Reading In The Heart of the Sea about the voyage of the crew of the Essex whaling boat after a sperm whale sunk it.

After sailing in three whaleboats for a while, they come upon an island to find water. They only find a small spring that's accessible only at low tide for about a half hour. Not ideal.

After provisioning the boats, 17 of the 20 men get back in the boats and sail for land. Three men stayed on the island.

Of the 17 men who sailed off, five survive. And two of them survive only because the crew drew lots and killed a man to eat (before they were only 2 remaining). When the surviving men send for rescue to those left on the island, all three of those men were still alive.

My first thought was that wow they all should have stayed on the island. Chances were so much better.

And it was a cold thought to realize that this wouldn't be the case without those 17 men sailing out toward rescue. Twelve men had to die to allow for those three on the island to survive, particularly given that after they remained, that small water source no longer became cleared of the tide at low tide.

It's a cruel reality and I just had to share this brain worm.