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u/Alucardxx · 7 pointsr/AbandonedPorn

do you mean english history books ? that's because ,after the ww2 and the anti italian propaganda , few writers made an effort to tell the truth and go against the stigma towards italian soldiers , they just presented the victory as a joint french-england-usa effort. Italian soldiers also fought in france but i bet very few people knows that.


"Mon Général, Au moment où vous allez retourner en Italie, je tiens à vous exprimer la satisfaction que j’ai éprouvé à avoir sous mes ordres le II C.A. Italien. Quand, en avril 1918, le II C.A. arriva en France, sa réputation de vaillance était déjà consacrée par tes noms glorieux de Plava, Monte Cucco, Vodice, Monte Santo, Bainsizza, Montello. Je savais que pouvais beaucoup demander à de pareilles troupes. Elles furent en effet de celles qui, le 15 juillet, contribuèrent à repousser les assaut furieux de l’ennemi.Elles furent ensuite appelées à reprendre les crêtes fameuses du Chemin des Dames et participèrent ardemment avec les troupes française à la poursuite qui chassa l’ennemi hors de France. Au nom de l’Armée Française je tes remercie. Je salue vos glorieux drapeaux. Je salue aussi vos héros tombés au champ d’honneur. La France honorera d’un mène culte tous ceux qui sont tombés sur son sol pour la plus noble des causes. L’Italie peut être fière du Général Albricci et des troupes qui, sous ses ordres, ont combattu victorieusement sur le sol de la France.
Signé: PETAIN"


update: it seems new books have been published:
http://www.amazon.it/White-War-Death-Italian-1915-1919/dp/0571223346/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1451783758&sr=8-1&keywords=white+war
http://www.amazon.it/Isonzo-Forgotten-Sacrifice-Great-War/dp/0275972046/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1451784112&sr=8-2&keywords=isonzo+battle

u/dvdvdvdv · 5 pointsr/AbandonedPorn

If you happen to be Dutch, you can probably buy it here. It's made by two Dutch artists, but apparently was also translated to English under the name "Gnomes", which you can find here . Hopefully this is what you were looking for! I loved those books as a kid, and I still browse them sometimes.

u/ma_miya · 2 pointsr/AbandonedPorn

You might enjoy this book called "50 Photo Projects" by Lee Frost. It's an old standby for me. I flip through it when I'm in a rut, but it's also great for introducing new perspectives, people wanting to dig deeper into their photography, etc.

u/[deleted] · 1 pointr/AbandonedPorn

The book on Fordlandia is brilliant and well worth reading. Its an amazing experiment even if it did fail.

http://www.amazon.com/Fordlandia-Henry-Fords-Forgotten-Jungle/dp/0312429622

u/cpqq · 16 pointsr/AbandonedPorn

> Big Charity

Here you go - Prime Link checking it out now.

Thanks for the heads up guys.

u/SpankSearch · 2 pointsr/AbandonedPorn

Funny you should ask!

No, I am NOT BB trying to push book sales:

http://www.amazon.com/At-Home-Short-History-Private/dp/0767919394


A UK home. FULL of amazing facts. Not his best I think, but still a great read.

The US used to have forests that went on for thousands of miles.


Since 1600, 90% of the virgin forests that once covered much of the lower 48 states have been cleared away. Most of the remaining old-growth forests in the lower 48 states and Alaska are on public lands. In the Pacific Northwest about 80% of this forestland is slated for logging.


http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange2/current/lectures/deforest/deforest.html

u/IrateBeagle · 3 pointsr/AbandonedPorn

If anyone's looking for more on the subject, Thomas Andrews's book Killing For Coal covers the topic and provides a good history of coal mining in Colorado.

u/Icantevenhavemyname · 11 pointsr/AbandonedPorn

Have you read Isaac’s Storm by Peter Larson*? It’s about the 1900 Hurricane and is written by the same guy who wrote The Devil in the White City that’s being made into a movie. It’s a fantastic read and really gave me perspective on the region after moving to Houston years back. I highly recommend it if you haven’t already.

edit- fixed speeling

u/xkulp8 · 5 pointsr/AbandonedPorn

There are still manned towers all over the West. Last year I hiked to one and met the guy who worked there. He was a journalist in NYC and got out after 9/11, then wrote a book about life as a lookout. They check in by radio every hour or so.

u/g-dragon · 3 pointsr/AbandonedPorn

> That aside, it's also possible they were already planning on building this and just accelerated the plans

that's exactly what they did. the documentary covers how it seemed some shadiness was going on with why the hospital wasn't immediately reopened when it could have been. it's about an hour long if you have the time to watch it.

u/InterPunct · 3 pointsr/AbandonedPorn

I saw this book Exploring Stone Walls: A Field Guide to New England's Stone Wall at a bookstore in Greenwich, which cracks me up they consider themselves part of New England, but that's a different story...

u/DarthContinent · 6 pointsr/AbandonedPorn

I've watched lots of documentaries, read books on Russian vs German tank combat, and played World Of Tanks (free-to-play WW2 tank combat game) that's about it.

Tigers In The Mud is a good read where the author (who at the height of his career became a Tiger tank commander) describes how the Russian T-34s were basically no match against German armor often due to both poor visibility out of the turret and lack of training.

The SU-152 if I remember right had issues including the shells being so huge that it took two crewmen to heft them and reload the gun. That in addition to the fixed turret made them a bit less nimble compared to the German armor with their electrically-powered turret traverse.

Bottom line, the Russians seemed to be able to churn out more armored units than they had capable crews for, so for that they suffered, but in the end their numerical superiority outpaced the Germans (already hampered by the "teething" issues of their armor, e.g. adding more and more armor and bigger main guns without commensurate increases in the engine and especially transmission / final drive).

u/macgruder1 · 9 pointsr/AbandonedPorn

You are correct, it's not 100% abandoned. But there is no "r/unusedporn" section on reddit. The only active part in use of this facility that I saw is the training area separate from the full prison, out front.

This site was also home to a lot of illegal medical testing in the past:
http://www.amazon.com/Acres-Skin-Experiments-Holmesburg-Prison/dp/0415923360

u/machine667 · 16 pointsr/AbandonedPorn

This one's kinda sensationalist but it's got a bunch of primary source photos and accounts: https://www.amazon.ca/Eye-Deep-Hell-Trench-Warfare-World/dp/0801839475

I can't recall actually reading a book on the conditions on the various fronts, at the various times in the war (like a trench from 1914 looked dramatically different than one in 1917), it's mostly just stuff you glean in passing by reading about the war. It's worth learning about the whole conflict - I maintain that it is the most important event in the modern world and nearly everything else that's happened since is resolution of stuff that started in the Great War (that's a bit of an exaggeration but whatever).

u/MechMeister · 61 pointsr/AbandonedPorn

No, cars have always been the most recycled product since their inception. Every piece of metal, rubber, and glass, and some of the plastics all get recycled.

In Auto Mania McMcarthy describes the process of Ford's Dearborn plant which recycled "hulks" in house to be re-used in the new models. That was circa 1915.

That's why abandoning cars is silly. Either sell them to a restorer or junk them, leaving them to rot is environmentally unsafe, especially for antiques that may have chromium or lead in them.

EDIT: Although I should mention that the River Rouge plant was far from "eco-conscious" in the modern sense. It dumped insane amounts of toxic chemicals into the River, and part of that was because of old cars were being destroyed in the same place they were being built.

u/deadaluspark · 200 pointsr/AbandonedPorn

It's a bit garbled from the original, but it's from a book about Indian Native American Shamanism called The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda. They are talking about the use of mescaline (Mescalito being the spiritual being associated with its use). As someone who has used hallucinogens but has not really explored Shamanism, I rather think the guy had a lot of issues before he was forced to leave. Anyway, it's not so much "angry" as, well, you get the idea.

The passage in question (sorry about the length):

> Sunday, 20 August 1961

>Last night don Juan proceeded to usher me into the realm of his knowledge. We sat in front of his house in the dark. Suddenly, after a long silence, he began to talk. He said he was going to advise me with the same words his own benefactor had used the first day he took him as his apprentice. Don Juan had apparently memorized the words, for he repeated them several times, to make sure I did not miss any:

>“A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it will live to regret his steps.”

>I asked him why was it so and he said that when a man has fulfilled those four requisites there are no mistakes for which he will have to account; under such conditions his acts lose the blundering quality of a fool’s acts. If such a man fails, or suffers a defeat, he will have lost only a battle, and there will be no pitiful regrets over that.

>Then he said he intended to teach me about an “ally” in the very same way his own benefactor had taught him. He put strong emphasis on the words “very same way”, repeating the phrase several times.

>An “ally”, he said, is a power a man can bring into his life to help him, advise him, and give him the strength necessary to perform acts, whether big or small, right or wrong. This ally is necessary to enhance a man’s life, guide his acts, and further his knowledge. In fact, an ally is the indispensable aid to knowing.

>Don Juan said this with great conviction and force. He seemed to choose his words carefully. He repeated the following sentence four times:

>“An ally will make you see and understand things about which no human being could possibly enlighten you.”

>“Is an ally something like a guardian spirit?”

>“It is neither a guardian nor a spirit. It is an aid.”

>“Is Mescalito your ally?”

>“No! Mescalito is another kind of power. A unique power! A protector, a teacher.”

>“What makes Mescalito different from an ally?”

>“He can’t be tamed and used as an ally is tamed and used. Mescalito is outside oneself. He chooses to show himself in many forms to whoever stands in front of him, regardless of whether that person is a brujo or a farm boy.”

>Don Juan spoke with deep fervour about Mescalito’s being the teacher of the proper way to live. I asked him how Mescalito taught the “proper way of life”, and don Juan replied that Mescalito showed how to live.

>“How does he show it?” I asked.

>“He has many ways of showing it. Sometimes he shows it on his hand, or on the rocks, or the trees, or just in front of you.”

>“Is it like a picture in front of you?”

>“No. It is a teaching in front of you.”

>“Does Mescalito talk to the person?”

>“Yes. But not in words.”

>“How does he talk, then?”

>“He talks differently to every man.”

>I felt my questions were annoying him. I did not ask any more. He went on explaining that there were no exact steps to knowing Mescalito; therefore no one could teach about him except Mescalito himself. This quality made him a unique power; he was not the same for every man.

>On the other hand, the acquiring of an ally required, don Juan said, the most precise teaching and the following of stages or steps without a single deviation. There are many such ally powers in the world, he said, but he was familiar with only two of them.

>And he was going to lead me to them and their secrets, but it was up to me to choose one of them, for I could have only one.

>His benefactor’s ally was in la yerba del diablo (devil’s weed), he said, but he personally did not like it, even though his benefactor had taught him its secrets. His own ally was in the humito (the little smoke), he said, but he did not elaborate on the nature of the smoke.

>I asked him about it. He remained quiet. After a long pause I asked him:

>“What kind of a power is an ally?”

>“It is an aid. I have already told you.”

>“How does it aid?”

>“An ally is a power capable of carrying a man beyond the boundaries of himself. This is how an ally can reveal matters no human being could.”

>“But Mescalito also takes you out of the boundaries of yourself. Doesn’t that make him an ally?”

>“No. Mescalito takes you out of yourself to teach you. An ally takes you out to give you power.”

>I asked him to explain this point to me in more detail, or to describe the difference in effect between the two. He looked at me for a long time and laughed.

>He said that learning through conversation was not only a waste, but stupidity, because learning was the most difficult task a man could undertake. He asked me to remember the time I had tried to find my spot, and how I wanted to find it without doing any work because I had expected him to hand out all the information. If he had done so, he said, I would never have learned. But, knowing how difficult it was to find my spot, and, above all, knowing that it existed, would give me a unique sense of confidence. He said that while I remained rooted to my “good spot” nothing could cause me bodily harm, because I had the assurance that at that particular spot I was at my very best. I had the power to shove off anything that might be harmful to me. If, however, he had told me where it was, I would never have had the confidence needed to claim it as true knowledge. Thus, knowledge was indeed power.

>Don Juan said then that every time a man sets himself to learn he has to labour as hard as I did to find that spot, and the limits of his learning are determined by his own nature. Thus he saw no point in talking about knowledge. He said that certain kinds of knowledge were too powerful for the strength I had, and to talk about them would only bring harm to me. He apparently felt there was nothing else he wanted to say. He got up and walked towards his house. I told him the situation overwhelmed me. It was not what I had conceived or wanted it to be.

>He said that fears are natural; that all of us experience them and there is nothing we can do about it. But on the other hand, no matter how frightening learning is, it is more terrible to think of a man without an ally, or without knowledge.

u/Signals91 · 2 pointsr/AbandonedPorn

I always found WWI to be highly interesting, so I've devoured my fair share of literature. I'll list a few of my favorites. All of these are biographical non-fiction books.

Poilu! - The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918.

This guy lived through the entire war, spending most of it at the front. It details their daily life, but also the poor leadership and his hatred for the war. This one changed my perspective on war itself. A great read! If you're only picking up one, get this one.

Somme Mud - Edward P.F Lynch

Australian private lives through the fighting at Somme Mud, somehow. This one is very captivating, and I might have to re-read it.

Storm of Steel - Ernst Junger

A German account of the war, most of it spent at the front. Apparently there's a 1929 version in which Junger's patriotism and nationalism is conveyed, so I might want to try to get a hold of this edition myself. The newer edition is still a great read.

Sniper on the Eastern Front - Josef "Sepp" Allerberger

Another German account, but this one stands out because of it's focus on the snipers of the war.


These are all I can think of at the moment. I hope I've been able to spark some interest in the subject! If these do not ticke your fancy, there are tons of books covering different aspects of the war. All Quiet on the Western Front is fictional, but still a great read.