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On this day in 1971, the America single “A Horse with No Name” debuted on the UK Singles Chart at #49 (December 18)
It was the iconic 70s folk rock trio’s first and most successful single, topping the charts in Canada, Finland, and the US, and peaking at #2 in Australia, #3 in the UK and Russia, #4 in Ireland, #5 in New Zealand, and #12 in the Netherlands.
Originally called "Desert Song", "Horse" was written while the band was staying at the home of studio musician Arthur Brown, near Puddletown, Dorset, England.
Songwriter Dewey Bunnell says he was channeling his childhood travels through the Arizona and New Mexico desert when his family lived at Vandenberg Air Force Base, and explained that "A Horse with No Name" was "a metaphor for a vehicle to get away from life's confusion into a quiet, peaceful place".
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Heron Hood Ornament.
The Heron Hood Ornament used on Cadillac and LaSalle models between 1930 and 1932. Designed by John W. Hession. Jr.
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In the turbulent presidential election year of 1936, in an America gripped by the Great Depression, a homespun demagogue seizes the Oval Office and begins the systematic dismantling of American democracy.
This is not just a political novel; it is a chillingly plausible blueprint for how liberty falls, constructed from populist rage, patriotic spectacle, and the quiet cowardice of those who believe it cannot happen in their own country.
The story follows Doremus Jessup, a liberal, aging newspaper editor in the small town of Fort Beulah, Vermont, a man devoted to reason and the Constitution. He watches with first skepticism, then dread, as the folksy, charismatic Senator Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip campaigns on a platform of nationalist revival, promised handouts, and scorn for elites and intellectuals. Windrip wins the presidency not through a coup, but through a democratic election, exploiting the genuine fears and economic desperation of the masses. The air is already thick with grievance, and the paramilitary "Minute Men" in their silver shirts are waiting in the wings.
Before the nation can catch its breath, Windrip moves with terrifying speed. Congress is cowed, the press is muzzled, dissenters are branded as traitors, and the Constitution is suspended "temporarily" for the sake of security and stability. What emerges is the "Corpo" state, a fusion of corporate and government power that crushes labor, jails opponents, and turns local officials into petty dictators. Doremus, his world and principles crumbling around him, is forced from observer to reluctant, fearful resistor.
Each new tyranny is justified by crisis and wrapped in the flag. As Doremus navigates the new landscape of informants, propaganda, and violent intimidation, he realizes the key to Windrip's power lies not in strength, but in the cultivated weakness of the people. The dictator’s genius is in making complicity feel like common sense, and resistance feel like futile madness.
At the heart of the collapse is not just Windrip, but the American people themselves—the neighbors who join the Minute Men for status, the businessmen who collaborate for profit, and the vast majority who shrug and adapt, whispering, "It can't be that bad." The novel’s central duel is not between two men, but between two ideas: Doremus's eroding faith in democratic humanity and the regime's brutal efficiency in proving him wrong.
It Can't Happen Here is a savage, darkly comic warning shot. It is a gripping tale of one man's small defiance, a profound dissection of the authoritarian mindset, and a terrifyingly prescient study of how fascism adapts to a native soil. Sinclair Lewis explores the mechanics of downfall with brutal clarity, delving into the vulnerabilities of a free society: its economic inequalities, its media, its deep polarization, and its dangerous national pride.
The famous, devastating trajectory reveals that the murder of democracy is committed with a thousand small surrenders. The regime’s ultimate victory is not measured in battles won, but in the death of civic courage—the moment a people willingly trade their birthright for a promise of order. In the end, Fort Beulah, like America, is left shrouded in a gray, conformist tyranny, a potent symbol of how freedom lost is not stolen in a day, but relinquished in a daily chorus of "It Can't Happen Here."
In the grim new normal, Doremus is left sifting through the ashes of his former life, trying to hold onto a fragment of truth. The novel's ultimate lesson is that the price of liberty is eternal, active vigilance, and that the rose of freedom can wither in the most familiar of gardens, killed not by a foreign blight, but by the homegrown poison of fear, apathy, and arrogant exceptionalism.
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🏰Nerola Castle or Orsini Castle of Nerola is a medieval building in the town of Nerola, in the province of Rome.
It is located on Via Aldo Bigelli. Construction of the castle began in 1070 around the old fortress of the Prefetti di Vico, at the behest of Napoleon Orsini, and was completed by his son Gentil Virginio Orsini in 1085.
In 1085, Emperor Henry IV of Franconia, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, was a guest of the Orsini family. Over its history, the castle has undergone many changes since the initial design by Francesco di Giorgio Martini.
Its exterior is Romanesque-medieval. A crenellated outer wall rises from a moat. The castle consists of four corner towers, one circular and one quadrangular, both with crenellations, and is much taller and more majestic than the outer walls.
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La Pedrera - Casa Milà is architect Antoni Gaudí's most important building and one of his most innovative.
It was built between 1906 and 1912 on Passeig de Gràcia in Barcelona, commissioned by Pere Milà and Roser Segimon.
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Gardens By The Bay,
Singapore 🇸🇬
Photographer: @constantinamoi
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The Cars guitarist, backing vocalist, and songwriter Elliot Easton was born Elliot Steinberg in Brooklyn, New York, this week in 1953 (December 18)
Easton was a crucial part of The Cars success in the post punk era, with his unique style influencing many others, including Slash from Guns N’ Roses.
In addition to his impressive body of work with The Cars, Easton has played in Creedence Clearwater Revisited along with former members of Creedence Clearwater Revival, bassist Stu Cook and drummer Doug "Cosmo" Clifford.
Easton was also a member of The New Cars, along with original Cars keyboardist Greg Hawkes, and legendary singer/songwriter Todd Rundgren.
He was also a founding member of The Empty Hearts supergroup formed in 2014, with Blondie drummer Clem Burke, The Romantics guitarist and vocalist Wally Palmar, and Faces keyboard whiz Ian McLagan.
In 2018, Easton was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Cars.
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Unique Architecture Of Cochem, Germany
Photographer: @momentsofgregory
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