MV Torm Republican arriving in January of 2011 Freighter at Antiqua. THE PRIVATEER CLAUSE photo

In January of 2011, I shot this photo of the chemical tanker, a Danish ship, the Torm Republican, while we headed into port at Antiqua on the Celebrity Mercury. On Sept. 29, 2011, the ship was attacked by pirates in …

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The Avenging Conscience was directed by D.W. Griffith in 1914. It is 50 minutes long, a step in Griffith’s progressive move into feature films. His next film was to me his controversial masterpiece, Birth of a Nation. This film is …

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Murders in the Rue Morgue is a 1932 American Pre-Code horror film, very loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”. Bela Lugosi, one year after his performance as Dracula, portrays a lunatic scientist …

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The Night Before Christmas - Tom & Jerry poster

The story/poem “The Night Before Christmas” told by Perry Como with Christmas pics.  

At the Panama 2016 International Book Fair in Panama, Ken Rossignol reading to children from his book Panama 1914 small

Introduction of Ken Rossignol by the Cruise Director and Entertainment Manager of the Ship Andre and Mitch of the Royal Caribbean Grandeur of The Seas introduce Ken Rossignol