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The Ents were real?

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I am Groot!!!

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"Rare Bear". Heavily modified Grumman F8F-2 Bearcat.








Scud clouds.


The oldest known documented wheelie, 1936.
I always try hard NOT to wheelie. I prefer to steer.

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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

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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Pioneer Family in Front of Sod House, Kansas, 1880.

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Originally Posted by Sarc

..bye bye Loretta
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[GH85Carrera]

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.


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




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




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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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

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


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.



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.



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.”


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.


Mine near Leadville, Colorado late 1800s.






Need a bigger turbo????

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

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

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.



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.

Very cool, thank you for the personal story.

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.

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.

https://cen.acs.org/physical-chemistry/geochemistry/Naicas-crystal-cave-captivates-chemists/97/i6?PageSpeed=noscript

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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Transferring concentrates from mule team to railroad at Ophir, Colorado 1906.

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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Fortress of Solitude!

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Originally Posted by masraum

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.

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



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