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Hand-made door lock crafted by Frank Koralewski in 1911, using gold, silver and bronze.

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CULPEPER COUNTY, VIRGINIA.
“This rare March 1864 photograph...reveals the tortured, fenceless and largely treeless landscape of Culpeper County that all-out war visited upon the vast expanse between the Rappahannock and Rapidan Rivers. The photograph—taken toward the northwest—was secured from atop a railroad car, and a railroad turntable is observed over to the right.
A Union infantry regiment’s camp (3rd Corps) is depicted upon the knoll. Culpeper C.H. is over to the right, out-of-sight, and Pony Mountain (as soldiers called it) is straight ahead. Through the haze of smoking camp fires, Clark’s Mountain can be observed over to the far left.” — Clark B. Hall
Photo image from National Archives 111-B-427
H/t Robert Gray

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Miners working a prospect on Cheyenne Mountain (El Paso County Colorado) ca. 1870s.

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Culpeper county is @25 miles from where I live.............

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Las Lajas Sanctuary, Colombia

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Michael Crichton gave up studying English at Harvard University, having become disillusioned with the teaching standards--the final straw came when he submitted an essay by George Orwell that was given a "B-." After giving up English and spending a year in Europe, Michael returned to Boston, Massachusetts, and attended Harvard Medical School to train as a doctor. Several times, he was persuaded not to quit the course but did so after qualifying in 1969.
During his medical-student days, he wrote novels secretly mainly under the pseudonym of John Lange in reference to his almost 6ft 9 height. (Lange in German means long) One novel, "A Case of Need," written under the pseudonym Jeffery Hudson, (Sir Jeffrey Hudson was a famous 17th century dwarf) contained references to people at Harvard Medical School, but he couldn't hide his identity when the novel won an award that had to be collected in person. After giving up medicine, Crichton moved to Hollywood, California, in the early 1970s and began directing movies based on his books, his first big break being "Westworld" (1973).
Crichton became inspired to write this film after a trip to Disneyland, where he saw the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, and was impressed by the animatronic characters. Furthermore, the ride is mentioned in Crichton's "Jurassic Park" (1993), when Malcolm says "When the Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists," unlike what happens in this film.
The first use of computer digitized images as part of a feature film (not merely monitor graphics) was the Gunslinger's point of view in this film. After the process was finally developed enough to produce satisfactory results, it took eight hours to produce each ten seconds of footage for the Gunslinger's pixelated POV.
Yul Brynner was suffering from financial difficulties by the early 1970s and in desperate need of money. With no other movie work on offer to him at the time he reluctantly agreed to play his role as the Gunslinger in this film for $75,000. Director John Carpenter based the "indestructable" nature of his killer Michael Myers in "Halloween" (1978) on Brynner's character. Similarly, Arnold Schwarzenegger used Brynner's performance as the basis of his performance in "The Terminator" (1984). (IMDb)

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Comanche in Palo Duro Canyon photograph taken 1890's on JA ranch Buffalo hunt with Teddy Roosevelt Charles Goodnight Chief Quannah Parker and Big Tree Lone Wolf Sr. Hunt was staged for Edison film crew.

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About half of what Glenn posts shows up in my facebook feed 24-48 hours before Glenn posts it here.

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According to the Internet, the red spot (LA county) has the same population as all of the blue area.
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According to the Internet, the red spot (LA county) has the same population as all of the blue area.
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That's what Californians like to think. lol It is actually states that have smaller populations than LA County.

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Was that lift glued to the floor?

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October 21, 1797–The 44-gun 204 foot frigate, USS Constitution, one of the six original Frigates of the US Navy and the oldest commissioned warship still afloat in the world, was launched in Boston’s harbor. It was never defeated in 42 battles. In 1997, 216 crew members set sail again to celebrate her 200th birthday. Although her construction is almost halted by a 1796 peace treaty with Algiers, the CONSTITUTION is launched (in the third attempt to get her in the water) and christened by visiting Capt. James Sever using a bottle of Madeira.
She was constructed from hard, heavy, straight-grained, and decay-resistant white oak. Unlike the rather short and gnarled live oak, white oak trees grow to 150' tall to provide long, clear planks. When Old Ironsides was being built, white oak was plentiful throughout the Union's 13 states. Today, at Naval Support Activity Crane, near Bloomington, Indiana the US Navy maintains "Constitution Grove," where a forest of white oaks are grown for the sole purpose of restoring and refitting the USS Constitution, the oldest commissioned vessel still sailing (the UK's HMS Victory is older, but remains in drydock).
NAS Crane and Constitution Grove therein, protects the white oak trees and also the biological diversity an oak forest provides, including the wildlife that live there. Three Navy civilian foresters help maintain the wood and ensure that no tree removed from the ecosystem will have an adverse effect on the grove's biodiversity.
It was in the great naval battle where the USS Constitution captured the 38 gun British Frigate HMS Guerriere (pictured below) that she was given her nickname of, "Old Ironsides". A sailor on the Guerriere saw 18-pound British cannonballs bouncing right off the hull of the Constitution. He exclaimed, "Huzza, her sides are made of iron!"

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The second battle of Cabin Creek.

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Pipeline Rider - This photo from the mid 1910’s shows motorcyclist Johnny Hogg and his wife riding on an aqueduct pipeline with a Harley-Davidson sidecar rig. The pipeline ran about 15 miles through Los Angeles’ Mint Canyon. Mere days after this stunt was completed, another daring rider on a solo machine attempted the same stunt and found himself in the hospital.

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Archelon, an ancient sea turtle

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The Ute Pass Trail originated just below the springs of Manitou, Colorado, through Ute Pass and into the White River country of Utah. With the Indians dragging their travois along this trail, the route became easier to follow and eventually became a safe route to the Colorado gold fields. Starting in 1860, the mineral rushes to Colorado resulted in large settler migrations that began the first major threat to the Ute way of life. These Ute men pose on horseback as part of the marking ceremony for the Ute Pass Trail on August 29,1912. – Courtesy Southern Ute Cultural Center & Museum

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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/shark-attacks-teenager-paddling-off-australian-coast-180981009/

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Nineteen-year-old Nat Drummond was competing in a kayak-like surf ski race off the coast of Adelaide, Australia, when a shark bit a hole through his vessel, tossing him into the ocean.

“My ski just kind of lifted above the water, and the next thing I knew, I was in the air,” Drummond tells Richard Wood of 9News. “And then I was in the water. I saw this figure just fall back into the water. It was a big shark.”

Drummond, a “surf life saver” water safety volunteer since he was six years old, quickly disconnected himself from the leg rope that tethered him to his surf ski. He swam toward his competitors, who raced to help.

“All the paddlers in this event are surf life savers,” Craig Burton, the South Australian Ocean and Surf Ski Paddlers race director, tells the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Imogen Hayne. “When something like this happens, they turn into rescue mode, and it was fantastic the way they got him onto their surf skis and safely returned him to shore.”

Drummond was unharmed, though he tells reporters he was lucky—the shark had bitten the ski right where his legs were, writes the Washington Post’s Jonathan Edwards. Officials don’t yet know the size and species of shark, though they suspect it was a great white. They sent off samples of tooth and flesh collected from the surf ski for analysis.

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"Death Valley, so appropriately named, is home to the lowest area in the western hemisphere, at 282 feet below sea level. One of the hottest places on Earth, the grounds are known to churn up a temperature of 190 degrees. Investors with 20 mule teams traveled to the sparse area looking to cash in on borax, a mineral known to exist in areas of Death Valley."

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A man at the Crow Indian Fair. Montana. Early 1900s. Photo by N.A. Forsyth. Source - Montana Historical Society.

Confirmed, Load up the Cayman with tents, cooler, and off we goto the place where legends were made. Where Porsche earned its reputation.

100 year anniversary...
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