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Originally Posted by craigster59 (Post 11841582)

A few shots showing how "forced perspective" was used in the production of "Elf"..

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Wow, very cool!

I'm on a facebook group for buying/selling old tools. This came up the other day. I have no need for it, but I had to have it. The blade is a bit over 13.5".

It arrived today. Bring on the zombies!

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And just FYI, this is a broadhead axe. It's only beveled on one side. It's designed to take a large rough beam and shape and smooth it.

Broadaxes were commonly used in manufacture of square timbers for wooden shipbuilding, log building, timber framing, and railroad ties sometimes called axe ties.

The cars of steelworkers leave the mill in Midland, Pennsylvania, United States, in January 1940. Photograph taken by Jack Delano.

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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera (Post 11842023)

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WTF!?!

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Wheeler placer mine near Deadwood, Dakota Territory 1877. Interesting yard these fellas have.

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Nearly 140 years after Jack Dalton (photo) arrived in Alaska Territory to seek his fortune, his name may not be as well-known as Lewis and Clark’s, but for his accomplishments in trail and road building in the 49th state, he should be considered one of the greatest and most legendary backwoodsmen and pathfinders in the state’s—and the West’s—history.

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Reminds me of a Honey baked ham, but nevertheless,
that's a good cat, no matter how you slice it.

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Mother & Child in the kitchen, 1910.

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Glass worker carrying a tube of rolled glass at Pilkington Glass Ltd of St Helen's, Lancashire, 1918.

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Idaho Springs is the site of the first significant gold discovery during the Colorado Gold Rush. George Jackson found gold at the confluence of Chicago and Vasquez creeks on January 7, 1859.

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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera (Post 11842166)

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Glass worker carrying a tube of rolled glass at Pilkington Glass Ltd of St Helen's, Lancashire, 1918.

Wow, cool and impressive. And then you look at the girl and think about that girl having that job at her age.
I wonder if that cylinder was destined to stay in that form. I would assume so, but maybe this was the ultimate destination.
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Time for a CAT nap.

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William Penn Adair Rogers was the definition of American. Born to a Cherokee Nation family in Oologah, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), Rogers joked that though his ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, they "met the boat". Dog Iron Ranch, the property of Will's father Clement Vann Rogers, had as many as 10,000 Texas longhorns, and Will, the youngest of eight children, grew up in the saddle. An avid reader and good student, Will quickly decided that the saddle was more comfortable than the school desk, and, after dropping out of school in the 10th grade, worked his father's ranch full time.
When he was 22 years old, Will and a friend set off from Oklahoma to Argentina, sure that their cowboy skills would serve them well as gauchos on the Argentine Pampas. They bought a ranch and worked for five months before running out of money. Unwilling to return home and face his father's disappointment, Will boarded a boat to South Africa tending horses destined for service in the British Army, and when he arrived in South Africa he got a job as a rancher at Mooi River Station.
We've documented Rogers' connection to Texas Jack Omohundro before: Will's first job in show business was in Ladysmith, South Africa. According to Rogers, he asked the circus owner if he was really from Texas, if he was related to the famous Texas Jack from the dime novels, and if he had any jobs wrangling horses for the show.
"He had a little Wild West aggregation that visited the camps and did a tremendous business," Rogers later told the New York Times, "I did some roping and riding, and Jack, who was one of the smartest showmen I ever knew, took a great interest in me. It was he who gave me the idea for my original stage act with my pony. I learned a lot about the show business from him. He could do a bum act with a rope that an ordinary man couldn't get away with, and make the audience think it was great, so I used to study him by the hour, and from him I learned the great secret of the show business—knowing when to get off. It's the fellow who knows when to quit that the audience wants more of."
That was Texas Jack Junior—not the son of J.B. Omohundro, but a young man he rescued on the plains in the late 1860s after his family was killed by hostile Comanche. With his family dead, the young man took the name of the cowboy who had rescued him. Will Rogers, in a very real sense, was carrying on the cowboy showman tradition started by Texas Jack Omohundro when he first stepped on stage in Chicago on December 16, 1872. Consider this: Will Rogers became famous for his skill with a lasso, the tool of the cowboy trade that Texas Jack introduced to show business.
Rogers also incorporated a homespun folksy humor that quickly overshadowed his expertise on horseback and his twirling lasso. Consider a few of his more pithy sayings:
"A king can stand people's fighting, but he can't last long if people start thinking."
"I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat."
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment."
"Never let yesterday use up too much of today"
"Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke."
"Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like."
Will Rogers died in a plane crash in Alaska on August 15th, 1935. Before his death, the State of Oklahoma commissioned a statue of him to place in the United States Capital's National Statuary Hall collection. Rogers agreed on the condition that his statue face the House Chamber, so that Rogers could "keep an eye on Congress." Since the statue's installation in 1939, each President of the United States of America has rubbed the Will Rogers statue's left foot for good luck before stepping into the House Chamber to deliver the State of the Union address.

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I think they overfilled it.

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So more antennas the better?

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Taken it to the point it is stupid.

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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera (Post 11842319)

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Taken it to the point it is stupid.

That NEVER happens!

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ME 163's prepared for transport to the US. 10 rocket planes had their wings removed, and they were driven to Cherbourg where they were shipped on HMS Reaper to America.

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Some of the first Volkswagen “Beetles” produced in West Germany, 1945.

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Future LIFE Magazine Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt while serving with the German Army during WW1, note that he is equipped with a Karabiner 98AZ.
Eisenstaedt was born in Dirschau (Tczew), West Prussia, Imperial Germany in 1898, his family was Jewish and moved to Berlin in 1906
Fascinated by photography in his youth, Eisenstaedt began taking pictures when he was given his first camera; an Eastman Kodak Folding Camera with roll film when he was 14.
He served in the German Army during WW1 and was wounded in 1918.
After WW1, while working as a salesman in the 1920’s, Eisenstaedt began taking photographs as a freelance photographer for the Pacific and Atlantic Photos' Berlin office, which was taken over by the Associated Press in 1931.
Anti-Jewish policies in Germany caused the Family to emigrate to the USA in 1935 and settle in New York, where Eisenstaedt subsequently became a naturalized citizen.
The following year, 1936, Time Magazine founder Henry Luce bought LIFE Magazine, and Eisenstaedt, already noted for his photography in Europe, was asked to join the new magazine as one of its original staff of four photographers, including Margaret Bourke-White and Robert Capa.
Eisenstaedt remained a LIFE Magazine photographer from 1936 to 1972, achieving notability for his photojournalism of news events and celebrities.
LIFE Magazine Archives

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Originally Posted by masraum (Post 11842337)

That NEVER happens!

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And not just motorcycles.

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This one is sure to be popular in wheel to wheel track days! No one will mind if they don't get a point by.

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Originally Posted by masraum (Post 11841599)

This is mine. About 11 1/2" blade. The red paint is from a Halloween costume.
Someone borrowed my splitting maul years ago and I haven't replaced it. This works for that purpose if the wood is dry enough and small enough.

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Here is an early Christmas gift to myself. A Chelsea "Claremont" clock and barometer desk set. The clock is a "ship's strike" that strikes the maritime 8 bell sequence.

It was made in 1937 and given to Al Polizzi. A little history on "Al"....

Alfred Polizzi (born Alfonso Polizzi; Italian pronunciation: [alˈfɔnso poˈlittsi]; March 15, 1900 – May 26, 1975) was a Sicilian emigrant to the United States who was boss of the Cleveland crime family in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1935 to 1945. He stabilized the Cleveland crime family after a period of revenge killings, and was one of the most influential mobsters in the United States. He retired to Florida in 1945, where he was involved in the construction industry. He used several aliases, including "Big Al" and Albert Allen.

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