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I have eaten on that balcony in Edinburgh!! This is Victoria Street. The Grassmarket is below at the end of the street. The Royal Mile is up the street, and there is a stairway between the buildings to the Royal Mile. Edinburgh is one of my favorite cities in the world. Prague is a close second.
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"a different color coat on" Right, and black shoes, and black leggings, and a black hat, and apparently, also black face. :rolleyes: I guess the first pic was a little girl coming from school, and the second pic was of the same little girl wearing a black coat on her way to her ninja class. https://www.periodpaper.com/cdn/shop...g?v=1571711564 |
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"On September 9, 1947, a team of computer scientists and engineers reported the world’s first computer bug. Today, software bugs can impact the functioning, safety, and security of computer operating systems. “Debugging” and bug management are important parts of the computer science industry. This bug, however, was literally a bug. “First actual case of bug being found,” one of the team members wrote in the logbook. The team at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, found that their computer, the Mark II, was delivering consistent errors. When they opened the computer’s hardware, they found ... a moth. The trapped insect had helped short out a vacuum tube. Among the team who found the first-reported computer bug was computer-language pioneer Dr. Grace Hopper. She is often given credit for reporting the bug - but at a minimum she was the person who likely made the incident famous." http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1704738258.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1704738258.jpg |
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http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1704812636.jpg Sonic Drive-In was founded in 1953 in Shawnee, Oklahoma. What is your favorite item on Sonic's menu? Following World War II, Sonic founder Troy N. Smith Sr. returned to his hometown of Seminole, Oklahoma, Soon afterwards, Smith purchased the Cottage Cafe, a little diner in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Before long, he sold it and opened a fast food restaurant, Troy's Pan Full of Chicken, on the edge of town. In 1953, Smith joined with a business partner to purchase a five-acre parcel of land that had a log house and a walk-up root beer stand named the Top Hat. The two continued operating the root beer stand and converted the log house into a steak restaurant. After realizing that the stand was averaging $700 a week in the sale of root beer, hamburgers, and hot dogs, Smith decided to focus on the more-profitable root beer stand and bought out his business partner. Originally, Top Hat customers parked their automobiles anywhere on the gravel parking lot and walk up to place orders. While traveling in Louisiana in 1954, he saw a food stall with homemade intercom speakers that allowed customers to order from their cars. He contacted the innovator who made an intercom for the Top Hat. Smith also added a canopy to shelter diners' vehicles and hired carhops on roller skates to deliver food directly to the cars. Each customer received a mint with their order, a tradition to remind customers that they were "worth a mint." Smith had the prototype of the future Sonic. In 1956 Charlie Pappe, manager of a Woodward supermarket, partnered with Smith and opened a second Top Hat Drive-In. By 1958, Top Hats existed in Enid and Stillwater. However, only four opened, because the name was already copyrighted to another business. Upon learning that the Top Hat name was already trademarked, Smith and Pappe changed the name to Sonic in 1959. The new name worked with their existing slogan, "Service with the Speed of Sound". After the name change, the first Sonic sign was installed at the Stillwater Top-Hat Drive-In. The first franchise agreements offered a royalty fee of one penny per bag, based on the number of sandwich bags sold through its vendor, the Cardinal Paper Company. When Pappe died in 1967, Smith invited two franchisees to operate Sonic Supply, the supply and distribution division. By 1973 the trio built an additional 124 Sonics in Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Kansas. Today, there are 3,551 Sonic restaurants located in 46 U.S. states. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1704812636.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1704812636.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1704812636.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1704812636.jpg |
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How many can I name from the collage? Not a single one.
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January 4, 1954 While still working as a truck driver, Elvis Presley went to the Memphis Recording Service (Sun Studios) on Union Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee, and paid $8.25 to record a song for his mother's birthday. He records "It Won't Be The Same Without You and "I'll Never Stand In Your Way". Marion Keisker did the recording and took down Elvis' number with a note "Good ballad singer", and would later get Sam Phillips to call Elvis. PHOTO: Acetate receipt for "I'll Never Stand In Your Way"/"It Wouldn't Be The Same Without You" http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1704982002.jpg New York City, 1911... Photographer's Caption: Mrs. Palontona and 13 year old daughter, Michaeline, working on "Pillow-lace" in dirty kitchen of their tenement home, 213 E. 111th Street, 3rd floor. They were both very illiterate. Mother is making fancy lace and girl sold me the piece she worked on. Location: New York, New York... Source National Child Labor Committee Lewis Hine photographer http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1704982002.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1704982002.jpg There were many brothels in ancient Rome, but standard Roman coins, Serters and Denars, were not used and were even banned from being there. Store-bought Tokens were used for Denar and Serters and images on them were often obscene. Reason is understandable, because on all Roman coins there was a head image of emperor of that period. Even picture of emperor entering the brothel was synonymous with humiliating and cursing him. Of course, punishment was severe. In resorts like Herculaneum and Pompeii, brothels were much busier places. Over time, such places encouraged their customers to use their own currency, called spintriae in Middle Ages. Prevalence of prostitution in Roman culture can be inferred from concentration of this coin in circulation and abundance of examples at these resorts in southern Italy already mentioned. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1704982002.jpg Part of the surface of Mars. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1704982002.jpg Ashtray, Utah |
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