Dakar Rally - now and then

Mac Motorcycles

Mac Motorcycles are the latest motorcycle design range consisting 4 bikes crafted by two British design studio Ellis Pitt and Xenephya Design. This development is an outcome of over 9 months of diligent effort of the design team. All the models comprise the same engine and feature 500 cubes of working volume. These concept designs are described by Ellis Pitt as an outcome of confusion between Italian motorcycle Chopper and some others. These concept models have been named as Spud, Peashooter, Ruby and Poarer and several hundreds of these are waiting to be launched as per the developers and further developments will take place on demand.

Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon

Mercedes recently unveiled the G-Wagon LAPV 6.X Concept at the Eurosatory defense exposition in France. The LAPV 6.X Concept is an armored military version of the legendary sport-utility vehicle. Mercedes-Benz equipped this G-Wagon LAPV 6.X land monster with a diesel engine that is protected tighter then Fort Knox and encased in armor plating and enough power to carry 2,866 lbs of cargo while hitting a top speed of 150 kilometers per hour (93 mph). Beneath the armor is an adjustable suspension with 18 inches of ground clearance ensuring that it will not be obstructed.

Sniper - a story old as time

(See Harold Marshall - Canadian Sniper post)



German sniper




Russian sniper, Battle of Stalingrad, October 1942




The legend of the turkish female sniper at Gallipoli,
between 25 April 1915 and 9 January 1916




Pvt. Leo R. Hahn, sniper, Intelligence Section,
127th Inf., 32nd Division, in trench at Benholz, Alsace, 1 July 1918




Queen's University WWI Collection 3692, Box 4, File 37




Canadian Sniper




WWI sniper




Waffen SS Sniper in Cammo 1941




Vassili Grigorievich Zaitsev



Vassili Zaitsev leads 2 sniper students - winter of 1942 Stalingrad



The Soviet sniper Maxim Passar. 1942

Algerian Café in time and oil

Outdoor café, Algeria - 1979






Moorish coffee house, Algiers, Algeria, ca. 1899
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA





Arabs at a café, Algiers, Algeria, 1899






Frederick Arthur Bridgman
Café at Biskra, Algeria,1884
Smithsonian American Art Museum





Almehs Playing Chess in a Café
Jean-Léon Gérôme





Sabre Dance in a Café, 1875
Jean Léone Gérôme
oil on canvas/huile sur toile
from 2007 at Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York