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Photograph of the breached Möhne Dam taken by Flying Officer Jerry Fray of No. 542 Squadron from his Spitfire PR IX.

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Steve McQueen with his 34th birthday present from his wife Neile a new 1963 Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Lusso V12

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Before you get a Belgian Malinois, look long and hard at this picture. This was her first day home from a local shelter

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Phoenix, Arizona, 1940’s.

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Bass Reeves in Muskogee, Oklahoma 1889

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130 years ago, Henry Ford carried his first experimental engine, made from bits of scrap metal, into the family kitchen and clamped it to the sink for testing. While his wife, Clara, hand-fed gasoline to the intake valve, Henry ran a wire to the ceiling’s light bulb and spun the flywheel. The little engine roared into action, shaking the sink.

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Before you get a Belgian Malinois, look long and hard at this picture. This was her first day home from a local shelter

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I don't buy the caption for the dog, but so cute, just the ears and top of its head visible.

powder coated ring gear, LOL! I wonder if they powder coated their brake rotors too.

Hopefully, this was right before they mounted this thing on a lathe...

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Before you get a Belgian Malinois, look long and hard at this picture. This was her first day home from a local shelter

That paltry little picket fence won't slow it down one bit, either. Maybe 3X that height it won't be able to jump over it.

RE: powdercoat, there are things called displays. Perhaps you've seen one.

Otto lost everything in life that meant something to him. You can see the pain in his face.

Ronstadt & Jagger backstage - Tucson 1978

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^^

“Bangers and beans” don’t have to look that dreadful. A dried up sausage and beans straight out of a can are hardly representative of a real plate of “Bangers and Beans.”

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1960s Porsche 356 B engine assembly line

Great photo Glen! Lots of detail here for the 356 purists to mull over.

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The Horse Manure Problem of 1894
The 15 to 30 pounds of manure produced daily by each beast multiplied by the 150,000+ horses in New York city resulted in more than three million pounds of horse manure per day that somehow needed to be disposed of. That’s not to mention the daily 40,000 gallons of horse urine.
In other words, cities reeked. As Morris says, the “stench was omnipresent.” Here are some fun bits from his article:
Urban streets were minefields that needed to be navigated with the greatest care. “Crossing sweepers” stood on street corners; for a fee they would clear a path through the mire for pedestrians. Wet weather turned the streets into swamps and rivers of muck, but dry weather brought little improvement; the manure turned to dust, which was then whipped up by the wind, choking pedestrians and coating buildings.
. . . even when it had been removed from the streets the manure piled up faster than it could be disposed of . . . early in the century farmers were happy to pay good money for the manure, by the end of the 1800s stable owners had to pay to have it carted off. As a result of this glut . . . vacant lots in cities across America became piled high with manure; in New York these sometimes rose to forty and even sixty feet.
We need to remind ourselves that horse manure is an ideal breeding ground for flies, which spread disease. Morris reports that deadly outbreaks of typhoid and “infant diarrheal diseases can be traced to spikes in the fly population.”
Comparing fatalities associated with horse-related accidents in 1916 Chicago versus automobile accidents in 1997, he concludes that people were killed nearly seven times more often back in the good old days. The reasons for this are straightforward:
. . . horse-drawn vehicles have an engine with a mind of its own. The skittishness of horses added a dangerous level of unpredictability to nineteenth-century transportation. This was particularly true in a bustling urban environment, full of surprises that could shock and spook the animals. Horses often stampeded, but a more common danger came from horses kicking, biting, or trampling bystanders. Children were particularly at risk.
Falls, injuries, and maltreatment also took a toll on the horses themselves. Data cited by Morris indicates that, in 1880, more than 3 dozen dead horses were cleared from New York streets each day (nearly 15,000 a year).

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Rye Landgate is remarkably well preserved.
Built around 680 years ago, it's still in use today and it's the only surviving fortified entrance to Rye.

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The Hilton family, Sargent, Nebraska c.1887 (Photographer Solomon D. Butcher)
The Hilton family; near Sargent, Nebraska. Mr. and Mrs. David Hilton, along with their eldest daughter. During a photography session, Mrs. Hilton and her daughter expressed a firm refusal to be captured in front of their sod house. Their rationale was rooted in sharing the pictures with friends and relatives back east. The prospect of being observed living in a dwelling constructed from soil was deemed embarrassing by the family members.
However, their reluctance extended solely to the sod house backdrop, as they were keen on being photographed alongside their recently acquired pump organ. To accommodate this preference, Mr. Hilton, along with the photographer, was tasked with relocating the organ. This involved bringing it outdoors for the purpose of capturing the desired images and subsequently returning it indoors once the photo was finished.

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Baz
Here is another one that got me hooked on his music in the day
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The first one I posted, Compared to What, cooks in a way that most folks in the mid-‘60’s did not understand. He influenced lots of jazz musicians, but also Bowie, ELP, etc.

Neil Young's tour bus back in the day. Notice the VW Bug "skylights".

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