SPEEDWAY, IN – My knowledge of the Indianapolis 500 ranges somewhere on the scale between famed Indy racing historian Donald Davidson and a brick. I’ve been enamored with the 500 since I was a kid, covered the race in the 1970s and ’80s when I worked as a sportswriter in the Midwest, and I’ve gone […]
Tag: Courageous
Memorial for the courageous animals who died in the First World War
PH The Sikh with Lt AC Vicary in China during the summer of 1914 Over the next four horrific years he was machine-gunned from the air, shelled at the Battle of the Somme, buried in mud at Passchendaele and was twice trapped under the burning beams of his stables. But all the horse went through […]
GIFs of Buster Keaton’s Courageous Stunts in Silent Cinema
This weekend kicked off a new series at cinema haven Metrograph, featuring the film works of silent star Buster Keaton. “Real craftsmanship doesn’t age and nowhere is this truer than in the films of Buster Keaton, where every pratfall is a marvel of precision engineering made to endure for generations,” writes the movie house. This […]