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Cool oil drain pans. I presume they swivel out to catch the oil.

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1974 Fascination was created by Paul M. Lewis as a Space Age Transportation Innovation

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And here is Pezosiren portelli, the “walking manatee,” a fascinating basal sirenian from around 50 million years ago. It was found in Jamaica and formally described in 2001. You can easily see the family resemblance!

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LOL! I used to work on the Cisco TAC. I have supported Cisco Pix firewalls and VPN on Cisco IOS devices (PIX & IOS, yes, it was a LONG time ago). I've been lucky enough that the veins eventually do start to look normal again if you stop supporting and configuring IPSec VPN (SSL VPN doesn't have the same effect).
LOL!

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And my favorite GRE over IPSec
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I need one of these for the upcoming total solar eclipse.
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Twin #Turbo #Flathead #Ford #V8

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Great wind protection but not much for long distance. Wheelies would be interesting.

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1959 Chevrolet Impala bodies receive paint on the assembly line.

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A detailed view looking under the Grand Staircase ~ inside the Paris Opera House.

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June 1940. The stage which daily brings in mail, freight, express and passengers to Pie Town, New Mexico.

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Arguably, the rarest artifact in the Pioneer Woman Museum is an unassuming piece of wood, split in two. It was found by woodcutters on George Nieman's Riverby Ranch north of Ponca City in 1962.
What makes it so rare and unique is that it is an example of a Witness Blaze, which is when a surveyor takes advantage of a natural feature to mark the coordinates of a specific location, often because they have used up or lack their usual posts. This tree was marked by government surveyors in 1890 who were mapping out the Cherokee Outlet in preparation for the 1893 Land Run. Over time, the tree grew around and over the original marker, concealing it from view until it just happened to be cut down and broken open in a fashion which exposed it in 1962.
Though some of it was not preserved, "R2E" marks it as being 2 township ranges east of the principle meridian, while "S14" designates it as being Section 14 out of the 36 sections within the township.
That the marker remained affixed was improbable. That the tree preserved it was unlikely. That it was revealed when the tree was trimmed or cut down was an absolute fluke. That the workers recognized its historical importance was downright miraculous. Each step along the path which lead it to the Museum was exponentially less likely than the last. It may not look like much, but it's pretty special indeed.

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Tough life of a spoiled pet.

What happens when you miss a shift coming into turn 10A at Road Atlanta...SmileWavy

The car (me sitting on pit lane prior to the start last Saturday):

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This is the Powhatan jail in Powhatan, Arkansas. It held prisoners for 57 years and it closed in the 1920s. After that, it was used as a canning kitchen, commercial garage, and a honey processing plant.
Interesting fact: In 1897, county officials ordered that the jail be remodeled. Up until then, the prisoners were given straw beds and buckets for bathrooms. After the remodel, they were given hammocks, proper bathrooms, and sinks.
Meals for prisoners were brought to them by their own families or they purchased them from a local kitchen.

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When reactivated for the final time in the 1980s the Iowa Class battleships had no real threat of surface to surface gun fire against other ships. However, their ability to strike at targets was augmented with the addition of Harpoon anti-ship missiles and Tomahawk cruise missiles.
To make the ships capable of carrying these updates changes to the ships were made. Four of the secondary dual purpose 5-inch gun mounts were removed. A missile deck was constructed to mount the armored box launchers for the tomahawks as well. These were also known as ABLs.

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A 4,573-year-old neolithic wooden peat road near Nieuw-Dordrecht, in the Netherlands, excavated in the 1980s. The peat road was at least 800 metres long, and its construction has been precisely dated to the year 2,549 BC thanks to dendrochronology or tree-ring dating

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Blast marks on the desert floor where the Trinity Test occurred in July 1945.

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Very poor design to make it look like that, and placed at zipper height, and put in a bathroom.

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I was aboard USS Wisconsin BB-64 in 1988 when it was re-commissioned making me a Plankowner and entitled to a piece of the deck. That's actually teak from when the deck was originally laid in 1943/44.

It was amazing to sail on that beast.

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Adirondack High Peaks, Mt Marcy out there somewhere..

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“The engineer in the machine center operated the throttles of the 12 engines [of the Dornier Do X flying boat''
https://planehistoria.com/dornier-do-x-bigger-isnt.../

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January 31, 1971. Alan B Shepard, the first American to fly into space, suits up for the flight of Apollo 14. After a 9 year, 7 month hiatus from flying to to an inner ear condition that was finally corrected by surgery, Shepard would lead two rookies, Stu Roosa and Ed Mitchell on a 9 day flight, and a landing at the Fra Mauro highlands. Though they were dubbed “The Three Rookies “ , a term that irked the crew (especially Shepard) their flight was almost flawless.

Me at the top of Mt Marcy in 1993. Obviously a different time of year than your pic. It sure was cold!

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Ypsilanti, Michigan, ca. 1910...

Five siblings pose together for a family picture... Picture likely taken by Mark Jefferson...

Source
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What a spectacles!

Ever been arrested? I mean, cuffs, ride to jail, fingerprinted, got-state-issued-wardrobe-and spent-at-least-one-night-in-the-pokey, arrested?

I'll start: Three times—that's all I'm gonna say.

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^^ I used to work in that building on occasion.

Time to quit and work at Buc-ee's:

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I have never been arrested, never had handcuffs on, and I have not had a moving violation ticket since the 1970s. I plan to keep it that way.

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... except for the moving violations,
three speeding tickets.

I got a PhD in Traffic Science way back when.

I don't know much about guitars, but I know this one is NOT a Fender...

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Pretty sure it came off an old Gretsched car.

That’s a young Jim Morrison!

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Waste disposal men working in Old Montague Street, in the east end of London in 1895.
Notice that the man the arrow is pointing to is wearing trousers tied below the knees. This is to stop rats running up the inside of his legs whilst disposing of rubbish.

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The Stromatolites in Shark Bay, Australia. The stromatolites are about 2 billion years old and are the oldest living organisms on the planet.

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Telluride Airport elevation of 9,078 feet above sea level.

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Pictures from Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve & State Beach taken nearly 70 years apart

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A hotel in Germany uses 3D carpet designs to prevent people from running through the hallways.

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Photo: C. 1883-1889. A 20-mule team before its 165-mile journey to the railhead in Mojave, California. Photo courtesy of the National Park Service
The purpose of the twenty-mule-team wagons was to transport 10 short tons of borax ore per journey. The rear wheels, standing at a height of seven feet, were equipped with 1-inch-thick iron tires. The wagon beds, crafted from solid oak, measured 16 feet in length and 6 feet in depth, with an empty weight of 7,800 pounds. The convoy, extending over 180 feet with mules in tow, consisted of three wagons: the first as a trailer, the second known as "the tender" or the "back action," and the last serving as a water tank.
When loaded with ore, the complete weight of the mule train, including the wagons, amounted to approximately 73,200 pounds. The water tank, holding 1,200 US gallons, supplied the mules with water during the journey. An additional 500-US-gallon wagon was occasionally appended to deliver water to a dry camp along the route.
Over a span of six years, the teams successfully transported more than 20 million pounds of borax out of Death Valley. The horses, positioned as wheelers closest to the wagon, were ridden by one of the two individuals typically required to operate the wagons. While larger than the mules, the horses were considered less intelligent and less adaptable to desert conditions.
Remi Nadeau's historical account, "Nadeau's Freighting Teams in the Mojave," highlights the mules' superiority for general use in the desert region.
The teamster controlled the team using a single long rein, known as a "jerk line," aided by a lengthy blacksnake whip. Typically riding the left wheeler, the teamster could also operate from the trailer seat, managing the brake on steep descents. The swamper, usually riding the trailer, would be positioned on the back action in hilly terrain to operate the brake. Armed with a can of small rocks, the swamper could encourage an inattentive mule to return to work. Both men were responsible for preparing the team, tending to the mules' needs, and addressing any veterinary or repair requirements. A mid-day stop allowed for feeding and watering the mules in harness, while night stops provided corrals and feed boxes. Each day's travel averaged around 17 miles, and the entire one-way trip took approximately ten days. The company constructed cabins at night stops for the use of drivers and swampers.
Read and see more historical pictures: “The Twenty Mule Team of Death Valley” https://amzn.to/3vOZH3H (Amazon)

eww, I could imagine having had a bit too much to drink in the bar and trying to make it back to my room.