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The first photograph showing a living person. Paris, France. 1838. Photo by Louis Daguerre.

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Grandala are deeply sexually dimorphic and this is the difference. While females are brown with white streaks all over the head, males are almost eye-searing blue. This picture captured by Rajesh Panwar in North Sikkim, India, gives a nice visualization.

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I'm not a whiskey/bourbon, guy, but WTF?!?!
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"Xerographic high-speed output printer made by Rank Precision Industries. The electronic character-forming circuits are contained in a separate cabinet."

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In 1663, the partial fossilized skeleton of a woolly rhinoceros was discovered in Germany. This is the “Magdeburg Unicorn”, one of the worst fossil reconstructions in human history.

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One of the 4000-year-old well-preserved wagons unearthed in the Lchashen village in the vicinity of Lake Sevan. Made of oak, they are the oldest known wagons in the world. Now on display at the History Museum of Armenia

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ACE digital computer at the National Physical Laboratory
Seymour Cray was not the first person to build a walk-in cylindrical computer!

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Fossilized Footprints found in White Sands National Park : A multidisciplinary team of scientists recently announced the discovery of the oldest human footprints in North America. These fossilized prints were made between 23,000 and 21,000 years ago along the shores of an ice age lake that once filled the Tularosa Basin in south-central New Mexico, in what is now White Sands National Park. This finding fundamentally changes the timeline on North American human habitation – turning back the clock of human arrival in the Americas nearly 10,000 years. The footprints were formed when ancient peoples walked over damp, sandy ground surrounding the former lake. Over time, sediment filled in the footprints as the ground hardened fossilizing the prints. Recently, erosion has resurfaced the prints, making many of them visible to the naked eye. By testing the sediment, researchers were able to carbon date the prints, with the oldest set being 22,800 years old.

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Easy to remove the anti-theft devices marketing.

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Regency TR-1 First Transistor Radio, AM reception only - 1954

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The world's first stored-program electronic digital computer - the Small-Scale Experimental Machine, known as SSEM, or the 'Baby' - was designed and built by F.C. Williams and Tom Kilburn at The University of Manchester, and made its first successful run of a program on 21 June 1948.

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83 944 with less than 90k on the clock.

Great looking car…only problem with ‘83…no P/S!

Random: Dr’s parking at local hospital…993 C4S out of picture…

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Mrs. Coleman doing a washing at Irwinville Farms, Georgia. May 1938. (Photo by By John Vachon).

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IBM 701 Tape Drive
The First Magnetic Tape Drive for Computer Data Storage

In 1949, IBM began to plan for a new storage and i/o medium to take the place of punched cards. The new medium would be more compact, faster, cheaper, and reusable. Magnetic tape technology had been used for audio recording and playback since World War II, and it was adapted for computer use — initially in a prototype called the Tape Processing Machine (TPM), 1950-51. Of course computer data storage and retrieval is different from audio recording and playback, requiring accurate positioning (both forwards and backwards) to arbitrary spots and therefore much fancier motors, not to mention stress relief for the tape itself, accomplished with vacuum columns (invented by IBM). New digital recording techniques were developed allowing mapping of computer memory to tape with error detection, coding of records and boundaries, and so forth.
The first magnetic tape drives were successfully demonstrated on the TPM and then adapted to the 701 (also known as the Defense Calculator), IBM's first commercial computer, which could accommodate four tape drives. The 701 tape drive shown above recorded 100 characters per inch and had a throughput of 70 inches (or 7000 characters) per second.

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I wonder how many miles this idiot trucker drove with the tires locked up. That is a bad flat spot!

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This Tupolev Tu-95 Bear, a large four engined turbo-prop with eight contra-rotating propellers, shows the effect of wingtip vortices on the clouds.

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Once Janss Conejo Ranch, one of the popular GUNSMOKE locations - now 'Avenida de Los Arboles' (Avenue of Trees), Thousand Oaks, CA.
A then-and-now comparison, highlighting the explosive growth of suburban sprawl, as the state's population doubled since '55
And anyone that ever has been to Kansas knows there are no mountains or hills like that around Dodge City. Kansas.

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When I was young I used to chuckle when Audie Murphy would grit his teeth and act tough.
I thought, typically Hollywood actor chip on his shoulder, wanta be tough guy.
Boy was I embarrassed when I discovered what a great Hero he was /is during WW II.
We were lucky to have him protecting our country.
Followed by so many years of great entertainment.
Most definitely one of the greats.

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When I was young I used to chuckle when Audie Murphy would grit his teeth and act tough.
I thought, typically Hollywood actor chip on his shoulder, wanta be tough guy.
Boy was I embarrassed when I discovered what a great Hero he was /is during WW II.
We were lucky to have him protecting our country.
Followed by so many years of great entertainment.
Most definitely one of the greats.

Well deserved and earned praise indeed. ^^

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This is the preserved shell of a giant 'ancient armadillo' creature called Glyptodont that roamed the earth around 20,000 years ago. A farmer in Argentina uncovered four of them in a dried-out riverbed near Buenos Aires in February 2020.

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Water levels at Shasta Lake.

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This is the preserved shell of a giant 'ancient armadillo' creature called Glyptodont that roamed the earth around 20,000 years ago. A farmer in Argentina uncovered four of them in a dried-out riverbed near Buenos Aires in February 2020.

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Water levels at Shasta Lake.

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One of your best posts in a while!

That pick of Shasta Lake (Lake Shasta?) is amazing. It may not look like a big difference, but I suspect that difference accounts for an enormous amount of water.

Regarding the subsidence in Cali, when these huge volumes of water come in and sit on top of the land, do they increase the subsidence before they have a chance to soak in? Especially that one spot, what is it the San Joaquin Valley and Lake Tulare?
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Mar 17 - the flooding is brown and starts near corcoran
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The store to the right was Polynesian Bazaar. Mom's company had a bunch of stores in Waikiki. I used to do deliveries to the stores after I graduated from high school with those industrial laundry carts.

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Yes, evidently this really is a movie! :eek:

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Colossus was the first *large-scale* electronic *digital* computer. Built in 1943, it was used at Bletchley Park to decode the ultra-secret Tunny cipher [far more complex than Enigma and used for the highest grade of German intelligence].
Image: "Colossus with two operators, Dorothy Du Boisson and Elsie Booker" in "Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park’s Codebreaking Computers"

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The Skyrocket had a novel appearance when it first debuted in April 1940. A snub-nosed fuselage that suddenly ended on the leading edge of the wing and twin tails to match the two engines. It was a low-wing monoplane with a short fuselage that began aft of the wing’s leading edge with a twin tail assembly.

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Saturn Analog Computer. Electronic engineer testing a new transistorized computer just completed at English Electric, Kidsgrove Works in Staffordshire, UK, 1960. Developed from the miniaturization experience gained building the "Mars" prototype a year earlier and integrating many of its more successful parts. Used for developing missile guidance systems and radar equipment, it was a type of computer that used the continuous variation aspect of electrical quantities (analog signals) to model the problem being solved. In contrast, digital computers represent varying quantities symbolically and by discrete values of both time and amplitude.

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Cheap way to get the look of disc brakes on a drum.

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A remarkable photo taken by Rick Geiss from Gulf Shores, Alabama in July 2016, showing a majestic cumulus congestus cloud with a microburst pouring a rain shaft over the ocean.

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High five Interchange Dallas Texas

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Yes, evidently this really is a movie! :eek:

Watched it tonight. It's only 70 minutes long, which is about 60 minutes longer than it needs to be. It's bad, really bad.
If you want to watch it, it's available on Roku and Freevee, probably some other free streamers

What's worse? They're making another one.
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