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The Ents were real?

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I haven't seen that one before- love it!

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Photo from a 1968 skit on "The Carol Burnett Show.”

Betty Grable, Martha Raye, Jackie Gregory, Lyle Waggoner, Harvey Korman, and Carol Burnett. Without seeing faces, the audience voted for best legs and Korman won.

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..bye bye Loretta
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you

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Did stagecoach travel have different classes of ticket?
Some stagecoach companies had three classes. First class rode all the way; second class had to get out and walk on steep grades; third class passengers not only had to walk, but also push on the hills. Crossing the sand dunes west of Yuma, Arizona Territory, passengers had to ride the hurricane deck of a mule, hence the name “Jackass Mail.”
Whatever class of ticket these pioneers had, they faced a tough journey while traveling on this stagecoach from Deadwood, Dakota Territory, circa 1880.

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1948 - Santa Fe diesel passenger locomotive crashes and hangs over Aliso St, Los Angeles Union Station Jan. 25, 1948

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A family poses in front of sod house, south of West Union, Custer County, Nebraska, 1887.

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Arriving in Nebraska from Belgium in the spring of 1883, Isadore Haumont poses with his family for Butcher in front of their two-story sod house on French Table, north of Broken Bow, in 1886.

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A family poses in front of sod house, south of West Union, Custer County, Nebraska, 1887.

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Arriving in Nebraska from Belgium in the spring of 1883, Isadore Haumont poses with his family for Butcher in front of their two-story sod house on French Table, north of Broken Bow, in 1886.

I'm guessing the family on the bottom had a lot more money and skill than the family on the top. I wonder how many people left the cities to go west and have their own land and were happy for the chance and how many wish they'd never left. I'm sure that life was tough either way.

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My wife's great grandparents and my great grand parents both lived in sod houses. They were in the land runs in totally different parts of what is now Oklahoma.

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This was in Driftwood, OK, my great grandparents. Their first "real house" and they converted the sod house to a root cellar. No electricity, and just a hand pump in the kitchen for water, and a outhouse in the back yard.

My grandmother told about the day her dad came home and said they were getting an indoor toilet. She immediately said "Dad way about the smell!" and he laughed and said it was going to be a flush toilet with running water and they were getting electricity for running water in the house.

The kept the outhouse as a backup, and for hired hands to use.

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Jerome, Arizona Street Scene 1895. In 1899 the San Francisco Examiner called Jerome the “wickedest town in America”, with “one beggarly looking church and at least sixteen saloons and more going up.”

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Lobscouse was a common part of the Civil War soldier's diet:
"Take a bit of fat pork and melt it over the fire in a frying-pan or tin plate. Break up the hard-tack into small pieces and drop it into the frying fat. Let the whole mess sizzle together until the cracker is saturated with the fat and the result is a product that looks and tastes like pie crust. It is quite palatable...
I suspect if you are really hungry, it was great.

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Mine near Leadville, Colorado late 1800s.

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Neighbor’s Halloween display…gotta be 12 or 15 feet high. The fire pot is always there.

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Very cool, thank you for the personal story.

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Lobscouse was a common part of the Civil War soldier's diet:
"Take a bit of fat pork and melt it over the fire in a frying-pan or tin plate. Break up the hard-tack into small pieces and drop it into the frying fat. Let the whole mess sizzle together until the cracker is saturated with the fat and the result is a product that looks and tastes like pie crust. It is quite palatable...
I suspect if you are really hungry, it was great.

It was probably a lot better than eating the hard tack with a little water.

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That trunk is really cool!

THat's a real cave with giant gypsum crystals in Mexico. I'd love to be able to go into the cave. I heard about it years ago and it has captured the imagination of my inner kid.

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Gypsum: It's the main ingredient in drywall and frequently added to the water when brewing pale ale and India pales. Humans have been using this mineral for literally thousands of years. But at the turn of the 21st century, the world renewed its appreciation for the stuff when miners discovered some spectacularly big crystals that were — in essence — massive gypsum pillars.

They're buried 984 feet (300 meters) beneath the Sierra de Naica Mountain in Chihuahua, Mexico. Anchored to the walls and floor of a sweltering cave, the crystals went through at least half a million years of uninterrupted growth. Many are long and wide enough to walk across, and honestly look like Superman's Fortress of Solitude.

Don't bother packing your bags, though. Visiting these crystalline wonders is pretty much impossible now. That honestly might be a good thing; for all its splendor, the Giant Crystal Cave once had the makings of a death trap.

Regional fault lines pass right under the Sierra de Naica Mountain. About 26 million years ago, magma started pushing its way toward the Earth's surface through those faults. Ultimately, that process led to the mountain's formation. It also explains the massive crystals.

Giant Crystal Cave is a U-shaped cavity in the limestone below the Sierra de Naica. Roughly 98 feet (30 meters) long by 33 feet (10 meters) wide, it was filled with groundwater for tens of thousands of years. The water was originally driven upward into the opening by a magma chamber that's located deeper in the Earth. This intrusive water contained the mineral anhydrite.

Now at temperatures of 136 degrees Fahrenheit (58 degrees Celsius) or more, anhydrite remains stable. But at lower temperatures, the mineral is liable to dissolve and then reform as gypsum. (That's a reversible transformation, by the way.)

The magma underneath Giant Crystal Cave kept the water in the cave nice and hot. Eventually, however, the H2O's temperature dipped slightly below 136 degrees Fahrenheit (58 degrees Celsius). After that happened, the anhydrate started breaking down, filling the water with calcium and sulfate. The particles slowly began recombining into a kind of gypsum known as selenite.

White-tinted selenite crystals took over the cave. Because the crystals remained underwater — and because the water temperature stayed within a few degrees of 136 degrees Fahrenheit (58 degrees Celsius) — they were able to keep growing continuously.

Granted, the crystals didn't turn into giants overnight. A 2011 study argued that, under the conditions that were available in this cave, it would've taken anywhere from 500,000 to 900,000 years to grow a selenite crystal measuring 3.2 feet (1 meter) in diameter. Nevertheless, over time, a lot of these things attained breathtaking sizes. Many are 13.1 to 19.6 feet (4 to 6 meters) in length. The very largest, meanwhile, are up to 36 feet (11 meters) long and 3.2 feet (1 meter) thick.

In 1794, prospectors discovered silver on the Sierra de Naica Mountain. Before long, troves of lead, zinc and gold turned up as well — and by the mid-19th century, the first mining operations broke ground along the slopes. One day in 1910, the Peñoles Mining Company discovered a wondrous cave just 394 feet (120 meters) below the surface. Much like Giant Crystal Cave, the chamber — dubbed "The Cave of Swords" — was lined with selenite crystals. But these were significantly smaller, only about 8.2 feet (2.5 meters) long at the most.

They probably formed in the same way the bigger crystals down below formed. However, the Cave of Swords apparently cooled down at a much faster rate. This put a cap on how large its selenite spikes could get.

Giant Crystal Cave itself wasn't found until the year 2000. The water was pumped out by the Peñoles Mining Company before anyone realized that it was full of gargantuan selenite columns. Brothers Pedro and Juan Sanchez — two miners with the organization — became the first people to lay eyes on its crystals when they entered the drying cave on foot.

It soon became clear that Giant Crystal Cave was an inhospitable place. Not only did the air temperature climb as high as 113 degrees Fahrenheit (47.1 degrees Celsius), but the humidity levels were also close to 100 percent. The place was so humid that a visitor who lingered too long risked having fluids condense inside his or her lungs. That can be fatal.

At first, explorers were limited to 10-minute forays into the cave due to the justifiable safety concerns. But with specially designed cooling suits, teams of scientists were eventually able to slightly prolong their visits. Those who donned the outfits received a supply of chilled, breathable air from attached respirators. Suddenly, excursions lasting 15 to 60 minutes became possible.

NASA Astrobiology Institute director Penelope Boston journeyed into the Giant Crystal Cave in 2008, and again in 2009. She helped discover microbial life forms that had been trapped inside one of the crystals. Suspended in an air bubble, the tiny organisms may have laid dormant for up to 50,000 years before Boston and company came along.

The removal of water from this cave was a boon for the scientific community. Unfortunately, it may have bad news for the actual crystals. In 2017, Peñoles stopped the pumping and allowed groundwater to refill the cave. But before then, the crystals had been exposed to air for nearly two decades. Did that compromise their structural integrity? A series of experiments on gathered samples suggests as much. Now that the water's back, however, these otherworldly crystals might start growing again.

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Fortress of Solitude!

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I'm guessing she marrried well and young to this old guy here , and took it all when he kicked the bucket.

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Then buggered off with the money to the Colonies
Her brother remained in Belgium, There may have been some actual gold digging involved, or she rode the old guy to a smiling death and had to escape the family with all his wealth.

House building is an important thing in Flanders, they say we are born with a brick in our stomach..Belgium has one of the highest % of home ownership vs renters, 77% .

Some eastbloc countries have higher percentage, but that's kinda a dud since those houses are crap, former state, and poverity in those regions.
So they move out and come to places like Belgium to bring our stats down :D

GH85 Carrera, I love looking at the old settler family shots and imagining what a tough life it was back then. My mom's side of the family were Idaho settlers and when I was a young boy and my great grandparents were alive I would pump them for stories of the old days. My great grandfather told me about how different the area looked when he was a boy. Tall grass in big expanses, I figured out later he was describing the prarie land of long ago. They lived with Indian reservations nearby and he told me about his father (my great, great grand father) owning an Arabian stallion and breeding it with his Nez Perce friend's Pinto pony and selling what became known as Appaloosa horses. My great grandmother told me of when 2 Indians who were best friends got drunk and into an argument one night with one shooting and killing the other. When he woke up and realized what he had done he went to his friends widow, handed her an ax and told her to chop him up. Which she did, into pieces in the middle of the street right in front of my 8 year old great grandmother. My great grandfather's dad was a sheep guy, always wore a gun and never sat in a room with his back towards a window. They were run out of their house a few times by cattle guys and had to hide out in the hills. Grandpop was put to work from the age of 6 rounding up stray sheep with his dog and horse. This is the only picture I have of my great, great grandpa Hoover (the guy with the Arabian)
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Can you give us a little info on this photo? I don't recognize anyone.

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^^two of them are Robert Deniro and Francis Ford Coppola. On the set of the godfather 2 I believe

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A Tourist got upset that he did not get to see the pope, and demolished statues in the Vatican.

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^^two of them are Robert Deniro and Francis Ford Coppola. On the set of the godfather 2 I believe

The killing of Don Fanucci !

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Great story, thanks for sharing.

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This is my great great grandfather, William Hoefer. His last child with his first wife was my great grandfather, August, and everyone called him Gus. He lived in Driftwood, OK and was the father to my grandmother.

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My grandmother as a kid.

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Same grandmother while being "courted" by my soon to be grandfather.

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Luca Brasi, about to "Swim with the fishes."

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Very cool stuff! Thanks for sharing. I've got some genealogy for my family, but not a ton of interesting stories. Most of what I have is birth, death, marriage records especially on my dad's side of the family. On my mom's side, I have more because one of my aunts has done a bunch of research.

I have enough of that to bore everyone to death. I started a family tree on Ancestry.com and have it available to others doing family research to access. All living relatives are private, and unpublished. Only dead ancestors can be researched.

I have had several people send a tanks for posting a photo of their great grand uncle or distant cousin. Ancestry.com is a rabbit hole time suck if you let it be. I went back 10 generations on a few family lines. Past that is pointless in my opinion. With a 1,024 ancestors after 10 generations the number of cousins is off the scale. Just spouses siblings of the ancestors make the genetic tree massive.

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During the First World War, observation posts were often disguised as trees

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In 1910, the youngest member of the Oakland, California motorcycle club was 12 year old W. Wright. Wright’s Indian bike frame was cut down in a unique way to allow the young rider to fit the single-cylinder machine.

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I believe my aunt has my mom's side of the family shared on ancestry.com. I have my more limited tree on Ancestry too, although I can't remember if it's shared or not. I don't currently have an active account (can't see any of their data) but they keep my tree. I'd like to pay for access again and do some more research. It can be a deep rabbit hole. You have to be careful because some folks just add every recommended link even if they don't make sense. I've gotten hints that said something like "someone has so-and-so in their family tree and have spouse and parents." So I think, great, I can add some new folks to my tree, but then when I go and look at what they've got, the people that they have listed as parents were 5 years old or 95 years old when the relative was born. Clearly, they got a hint and just clicked "add to tree" or whatever the process is.

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One of the local Cemeteries has a lot of my relatives. My parents, grand parents and several aunts and uncles. I took photos of the headstones, and graves of all of them, and I received a lot of thank yous for that. Evidently that is a big side hobby of ancestry, having a photo of the grave and headstone of a relative. Most people assume the birth and death date listed is accurate on the headstone.

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A pioneer family posing with their farm equipment in front of their sod farmhouse, Nebraska, 1880s.

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The flying wing trinity. The 3 aircraft pictured are the XB-35 the YB-49 and the B2.

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U-118, a World War One German submarine washed ashore on the beach at Hastings, England. 1919

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Satisfying to get that thing removed!

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/\/\ Thank gawd he is f*&%$#* nobody............. /\/\

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W.C. Fields said that The Marx Brothers was the only act he couldn't follow on the live stage. He is known to have appeared on the same bill with them only once, during an engagement at Keith's Orpheum Theatre in Columbus, OH, in January 1915. At the time the Marx Brothers were touring "Home Again," and it didn't take Fields long to realize how his quiet comedy juggling act was faring against the anarchy of the Marxes. Fields later wrote of the engagement (and the Marxes), "They sang, danced, played harp and kidded in zany style. Never saw so much nepotism or such hilarious laughter in one act in my life. The only act I could never follow . . . I told the manager I broke my wrist and quit."
Groucho Marx suffered from insomnia, which he claimed was due to a financial loss in the stock market. On those evenings that he was awake, he used to call people up in the middle of the night and insult them.
"Because of my fake mustache, eyebrows and eyeglasses, I was rarely recognized in public during the 1930s and 40s. However, one evening in 1938, I was out at a local Hollywood restaurant with my wife having dinner when this man walked up to my table and asked me, 'Are you Groucho Marx?' Annoyed, I politely said 'Yes, I am.' He then went on to say he was my biggest fan and asked me for a favor. More annoyed, I said 'Sure, what is it?' The guy pointed to a woman seated at a nearby table and told me that was his wife and he wanted me to tell an insulting joke about her. I told the guy, 'Mister, if my wife looked as ugly at THAT, I wouldn't need to think of anything to insult her with!'"
In the 1950s, Groucho was invited to take a tour of the New York Stock Exchange. While in the observation booth, he grabbed the public address system handset and began singing "Lydia the Tattooed Lady." Upon hearing silence coming from the trading floor, he walked into view, was given a loud cheer by the traders, and shouted, "Gentlemen, in 1929 I lost eight hundred thousand dollars on this floor, and I intend to get my money's worth!" For fifteen minutes, he sang, danced, told jokes, and all this time, the Wall Street stock ticker was running blank.
"The greatest compliment I ever got was from (Charlie) Chaplin. He came up to me and said, 'I wish I could talk like you on the screen'. I said, 'I think you're doing alright.' He had made $50 million by that point. He was the best comedian we ever had." (IMDb)
Happy Birthday, Groucho Marx with and without makeup above.

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During the First World War, observation posts were often disguised as trees

Early on perhaps, but not really, Anything that stood out in the landscape was a reference point for artillery and as such did not stand out long in the landscape.

We do not have trees older then 105 years here.
No such thing.
Anybody dumb enough to climb into such an observation post, would have had to have a death wish

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