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Fortunately, my best friend's parents put him in a '68 Torino GT Fastback (just a 302 2v), then a '69 Mach 1 (351), so that helped get me through. Lots of dragin' the main on weekends. The Torino was that nondescript Seafoam Green. A sad color. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648014173.jpg The Mach 1 was in Winter Blue... a beauty. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648013915.jpg There was a healthy number of screamin' Roadrunners, Chevelles, Camaros, etc. in my small town... mostly guys who had gone directly into a decent-paying job in a textile mill right out of H.S. and still lived with their parents. Two 'Vettes... a '64 convertible owned by a rich kid and a '66 coupe owned by a doctor. |
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Towards the end of the war in March 1945, young German soldiers were used to defend the homeland. Huge numbers of Hitler Youth soldiers were removed from school in early 1945 and sent to war. In the Ruhr area of Germany, young boys practiced guerrilla warfare against American troops. In the forests, the boys stayed hidden until the tanks had passed, waiting for the foot soldiers. They would then spring up, shoot at them and throw grenades, inflicting heavy causalities, then dash away and disappear back into the forest. The Americans retaliated with furious air-attacks and leveled several villages in the surrounding area. Source: Hitler's Boy Soldiers 1939 - 1945. Picture: A soldier of the 94th Infantry Division searching two young anti-aircraft gunners who surrendered in Frankenthal, 23 March 1945. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648050981.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648050981.jpg HARRY S. YOUNT. BORN MARCH 18, 1839. Mountain man, professional hunter and trapper, prospector, wilderness guide, and the first game warden in Yellowstone National Park, father of the ranger service. After serving in the Union Army, Yount spent the fifteen years as a guide, packer, hunter, wrangler, and bullwhacker for government geological surveys during the summer, then hunt and trap in the winters in the Laramie Range of Wyoming. Yount was hired in 1880 as the first gamekeeper in Yellowstone National Park at a salary of $1,000 per year, when the park's entire budget was just $15,000 per year. During his 14 months in that job he wrote two annual reports which were then submitted to Congress. In his report of September 30, 1881, Yount described how he spent the unusually severe winter of 1880–1881, and his efforts to prevent poaching by tourists and Indians, while still hunting to provide food for the park staff. Yount reported that snow had fallen on 66 of 90 days between December 1880 and February 1881 He described the range and habits of Yellowstone's large mammals and expressed regret for "the unfortunate breakage of my thermometer when it could not be replaced," along with a submitted synopsis of the weather the previous winter. In this report, he resigned his position "to resume private enterprises now requiring my personal attention," and concluded with a clear recommendation: I do not think that any one man appointed by the honorable Secretary, and specifically designated as a gamekeeper, is what is needed or can prove effective for certain necessary purposes, but a small and reliable police force of men, employed when needed, during good behavior, and dischargeable for cause by the superintendent of the park, is what is really the most practicable way of seeing that the game is protected from wanton slaughter, the forests from careless use of fire, and the enforcement of all the other laws, rules, and regulations for the protection and improvement of the park. There are indications Yount had a difference of opinion with park superintendent Norris, who wanted him to spend more of his time building roads for the convenience of tourists, while Yount preferred to concentrate on protecting the wildlife. His reports described the challenges of protecting the wildlife in the first U.S. national park and influenced the culture of the National Park Service, which was founded 35 years later in 1916. Horace Albright, the second director of the National Park Service, called Yount the "father of the ranger service, as well as the first national park ranger". After Yount resigned from his job in Yellowstone, he lived for a while in Uva, Wyoming. He spent nearly 40 years prospecting in the Laramie Mountains, and developed copper and graphite mining claims. He settled in Wheatland, Wyoming, and worked on developing a marble mining claim west of there. Yount was actively involved in prospecting until the day before his death, when he had been looking for a ride to inspect a possible gold deposit. On May 16, 1924, he walked into downtown Wheatland, as was his daily habit, where he collapsed and died of heart failure. He was buried in the Lakeview Cemetery in Cheyenne. Younts Peak, located in the Absaroka Range at the headwaters of the Yellowstone River, is named after him. In 1994, the National Park Service established the Harry Yount Award, given annually to an employee whose "overall impact, record of accomplishments, and excellence in traditional ranger duties have created an appreciation for the park ranger profession." Photo: Yount in 1873 http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648050981.jpg Berlin at the end of World War Two, 1945 http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648050981.jpg A pioneer family with most of their worldly possessions at Gates P.O., in Custer County, Nebraska, 1886. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648050981.jpg |
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Rare 19th Century Image of the Hopi Snake Dance at Walpi, Arizona Territory. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648066009.jpg On April 13, 1985, while the Swedish Neo-Nazi The Nordic Realm Party was having a demonstration in Växjö, Sweden. The woman who hit skinhead was Danuta Danielsson, a Polish immigrant whose mother had survived Majdanek concentration camp. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648066009.jpg The FBI Finger Print Files, 1944 http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648066009.jpg California lumberjacks working on Redwoods http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648066009.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648066009.jpg |
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Aogashima Island, Japan. Aogashima is an active volcano located about 220 miles south of Tokyo in the Pacific Ocean. The island has a population of about 170 people who are living inside the bigger volcano's crater, making it the smallest village in all of Japan. The volcano erupted last time in 1785, killing half of the island's population. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648128254.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648128254.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648128254.jpg Two American soldiers maneuvering a bomb into its position at an ammo dump, ETO, 1944. During the war the allied forces dropped a staggering total of 3.4 million tons of bombs on the Axis. (Original color photo) http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648128254.jpg A group of Marines, after landing on the beach at Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, during a struggle to push a landing boat back into deep water after it was beached when the tide went out on November 23, 1943. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648128254.jpg The Whistler Tree, located in Portugal’s Alentejo region, is the world’s largest and oldest cork tree. It was planted in 1783. Cork for different uses is produced from the spongy bark of the cork oak (Quercus suber). The trees are native to the Mediterranean, and live an average of 200 years. It takes 25 years for cork oaks to reach a diameter of 70 cm (27 in), when their bark is stripped for the first time. It regenerates naturally, but next harvest does not happen before 9-18 years. The cork from the first two harvests is of poor quality and does not fit for bottle stoppers. Starting with the third harvest, more than 50 years since its planting, cork oaks produce high quality material. The bark is stripped with an ax, carefully as not to damage the tree itself, and left outdoors for 6 months to stabilize. The Whistler tree has been harvested more than twenty times in its lifetime The 1991 harvest is the most famous, and the largest on record: ¤ 2,645.55 pounds of bark were pulled from the tree. ¤ that record haul of bark yielded well over 100,000 individual corks. Just for comparison - if an average cork tree is harvested it will yield around 100 pounds of bark, enough corks for about 4,000 bottles. |
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http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648137736.jpg Dry washing for placer gold at the St. Elmo mine - Randsburg, California ca. 1897. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648137736.jpg LIGHTHOUSE, Þrídrangaviti, Westman Islands, Iceland (Photo by: Morgunblaðið/Árni Sæberg, 2009) Precariously perched on a rock pillar in the Westman Islands around six miles from Iceland’s mainland, the Þrídrangaviti lighthouse is arguably the most isolated lighthouse in the world, and most definitely the scariest. The solitary structure, sitting some 120ft above the raging North Atlantic sea was built in 1939 (without helicopters), which makes imagining how they ever built this place, even more impossible. Sæberg flew with the national coastguard helicopter, TF LÍF to take the photo of the lighthouse. It's quite incredible how people actually managed to build this lighthouse, just as WW2 began. In 1939 there were no helicopters so people would have had to sail to the cliff and scale it. In an old article in Morgunblaðið, project director Árni G. Þórarinsson says in an interview, "The first thing we had to do was create a road up to the cliff. We got together of experienced mountaineers, all from the Westman Islands. Then we brought drills, hammers, chains, and clamps to secure the chains. Once they got near the top there was no way to get any grip on the rock so one of them got down on his knees, the second stood on his back, and then the third climbed on top of the other two and was able to reach the nib of the cliff above. I cannot even tell you how I was feeling whilst witnessing this incredibly dangerous procedure." Þrídrangar, the three pillars of rock are in fact four pillars named Stóridrangur, Þúfudrangur, Klofadrangur and the fourth one is nameless. In 1938 a road was constructed to Stóridrangur and the following year the lighthouse was raised. Many years later a helipad was set up on Stóridrangur where helicopters can land. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648137736.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648137736.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648137736.jpg After 199 days of consecutive contact with the enemy, the 4th Infantry Division passed to the command of the Seventh Army, and moved by motor and railroad to the vicinity of Luneville, France. Here the Division Artillery, 70th Tank Battalion, and 610th Tank Destroyer Battalion were attached to other units, while the remainder of the division rested. In the interim, some troops observed "Sandlot Warfare" instruction. Notice even how the "Dragon's Teeth" of the Siegfried Line were recreated in miniature. |
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on my way to supermarket.. saw some folks picking thrash by the road, like cleaning up the berms from stuff others chucked out the window.
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March 22, 1881, infamous Old-West cattle rustler & highwayman “Big Nose” George Parrott (unknown-1881), alias George Manuse or George Warden, met his earthly demise when he died from the effects of having been strung up from a telegraph pole by a lynch mob after murdering a jailor & escaping from the Rawlins Jail in the town of Rawlins in Wyoming Territory where he had been awaiting execution for murder. ☞Because no one came forward to claim Parrot’s body, two local doctors, Dr. Thomas Maghee & Dr. John Eugene Osborne, took possession of Parrott’s corpse in order to study the outlaw’s brain for clues to his criminality. The top of Parrott’s skull was sawn off & later presented to 15-year-old Lillian Heath, then a medical assistant to Maghee. Heath later became the first female doctor in Wyoming in 1893 -- just three years after Wyoming Territory became the State of Wyoming. She is said to have variously used the George Parrot’s skull cap as an ash tray, a pen holder, & a door-stop. Skin from Parrott’s thighs & chest was removed & sent to a tannery in Denver, where it was made into a pair of shoes & a medical bag. Dr. Osborne later wore the shoes to his inaugural ball after being elected as the first Democrat Governor of the State of Wyoming. Parrott’s dismembered body was stored in a whiskey barrel filled with a salt solution for about a year whilst the experiments continued, after which he was buried in the back yard behind Dr. Maghee’s medical office. The death of Big Nose George faded into history until May 11, 1950, when construction workers unearthed a whiskey barrel filled with bones whilst working on the Rawlins National Bank. Inside the barrel was a skull with the top sawn off, a bottle of some sort of vegetable compound, & the shoes that were said to have been made from Parrott’s skin. Dr. Lillian Heath, then in her 80s, was contacted & the skull cap was sent to the scene. It was found to be a perfect match to the skull in the barrel, & DNA analysis later confirmed that the remains were those of Big Nose George. Today, the shoes made from the skin of Big Nose George are on permanent display at the Carbon County Museum in Rawlins, together with the bottom part of the outlaw’s skull. Parrott’s skull cap is now on display at the Union Pacific Museum in Omaha, Nebraska. The medical bag made from Big Nose George Parrot’s skin has become lost to history. The left-hand photograph depicts the moustachioed visage or Old-West Outlaw Big Nose George Parrott. The right-hand photograph depicts pioneer female Old-West doctor, Lillian Heath, M.D. late in her life as she displays the top of Big Nose George’s skull. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648303930.jpg A “Powder monkey”aboard USS New Hampshire, 1864. His chief role was to carry gunpowder from the powder magazine in the ship's hold to the artillery pieces, either in bulk or as cartridges, to minimize the risk of fires and explosions. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648303930.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648303930.jpg US Soldiers on New Georgia near Munda in July/August 1943 Note they are carrying (L to R) a M1928 Thompson, M1 Garand, and a M1903 rifle A cropped version of this picture was used for the cover of the September 6, 1943 LIFE Magazine Issue LIFE Magazine Archives - William C Shrout Photographer http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648303930.jpg St. Elmo, Colorado was settled in the 1870's and grew to be a town of over 2,000 residents. The town sits in one of the most scenic spots in Colorado, and was a popular tourist destination even in the 1800s. Today St. Elmo has many historic buildings remaining. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648303930.jpg |
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A megalithic lid & entrance into the top of the mountain found in the Andean high country of Cosma, Peru http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648305135.jpg Helmcken Falls, Wells Gray Provincial Park, BC, Canada!! http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648305135.jpg In preparation for the Rhine crossing, a treadway bridge was built by the 17th Armored Engineer Battalion, detached from the 2nd Armored Division. On the night of 23 March, 1945 Company E and C constructed two preliminary treadway rafts over the Rhine, south of Wesel and opposite Spellen (now part of the town of Voerde). In the morning, a bridge that could bear mechanized transport started at 9:45 am, and by 4:00 pm the first truck crossed the floating bridge. Over 1152 feet of M2 treadway and 93 pneumatic floats were used in the project, which required just six hours and fifteen minutes to complete, setting a record for the size of the bridge. After the Rhine had been bridged, the 75th Infantry Division crossed on 24 March and the 35th Infantry Division crossed 25–26 March 1945. Source: Bridging the Rhine, 17th Armored Engineer Battalion in World War 2. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648305135.jpg American GIs of the 3rd U.S. Army forge the Rhine River. Here, some of these troops crouch low as enemy fire opens during their crossings of the Rhine in assault boats at Oberwesel, Germany. This is perhaps one of the more famous photos of the war. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648305135.jpg Top View of a Boeing B-52H Stratofortress and British Avro Vulcan in Flight Near Edwards Air Force Base, California, 7/10/1961..USAF Image http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1648305135.jpg |
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