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[Baz]

[Bill Douglas]

[Dixie]

Originally Posted by Por_sha911

This has been Photoshop'd.

She has a birthmark on her left thigh.

Lol, cute reply. The model is Kayslee Collins, Playboy, February 2015. I'd rather have used a photo of me, but I don't know anyone with an XKE.

The rule is to always post a photo, so here's my cheesecake selfie.
(PS, neither of us has a birthmark.)

[Zeke]

"This has been Photoshop'd." Seemed obvious to me. Love giving the finger.

[Bugsinrugs]

Lots of work… next years wood

[GH85Carrera]

In a ceremony held on March 13, 1931 at Woolaroc Museum & Wildlife Preserve, Phillips Petroleum Company founder Frank Phillips was adopted as an honorary member of the Osage Nation. Given the name Hulah Kihe-kah (Osage for "Eagle Chief"), Phillips was the only white man to ever receive the honor of being inducted into the tribe, and would go on to describe these proceedings as one of his proudest moments. Osage County is full of amazing history – Pay us a visit to experience some of it for yourself! Find more info on all there is to see and do here and resources to help plan your trip at https://visittheosage.com/


1945, the K-25 Gaseous Diffusion Plant began uranium production in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It was the largest building in the world when it opened, and enriched U-235 for much of the Cold War.

[GH85Carrera]

Long before Photoshop photos were retouched. I worked with a lady in the early 1970s that could do wonders on removing wrinkles, or birthmarks and moles of portraits. One customer had a large wedding ring on her hand, with her hands under her chin. She loved the photo, byt she divorced the first husband, and married a new man. She had that ring removed and it was astonishing in the photo. Airbrush techniques were common on Playboy centerfold pictures.

Photos have be retouched since the birth of photography. Now it is just easier.











This floor is entirely flat. The remarkable 17th-century optical illusion of Florence Cathedral's marble tiles. When seen from above, the intricate geometry creates the illusion of a giant abyss that people might stumble into. The red, white, black and green marble floor was a colossal task that took 160 years to complete. It was carried out by the grand-ducal workshops of Florence, guided by Renaissance sculptor Baccio d'Agnolo, and was completed in 1660. The primary aim of the builders was to surpass the splendour of Roman imperial floors, above all those of the Pantheon. The result forms a giant unity of mesmerizing geometric carpets, aligned within the cathedral's naves. The crest of the Medici family, the banking family which left an indelible mark across Florence and played a major role in the completion of the cathedral, can be seen on various sections of the floor.

[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Long before Photoshop photos were retouched. I worked with a lady in the early 1970s that could do wonders on removing wrinkles, or birthmarks and moles of portraits. One customer had a large wedding ring on her hand, with her hands under her chin. She loved the photo, but she divorced the first husband, and married a new man. She had that ring removed and it was astonishing in the photo.

Now the needed lessons can be found on YouTube.

[Targa68]

Originally Posted by Capt. Carrera

Lol, cute reply. The model is Kayslee Collins, Playboy, February 2015. I'd rather have used a photo of me, but I don't know anyone with an XKE.

The rule is to always post a photo, so here's my cheesecake selfie.
(PS, neither of us has a birthmark.)

I guess we'll have to take your word on that

[GH85Carrera]

Claiborne County, Tennessee, 1940s...
Photograph of a woman washing a piece of cloth in the kitchen. In the image, a woman is bent over a washing board cleaning clothes inside a large tub placed on top of a chair.
Photo: Joe Clark HBSS - Clark Family Photo Collection - Special Collections Library - University of North Texas


The clock face should be square!


Projection machine operator (center) in the television scanning room at NBC Studios in 1938 feeds film to the iconoscope camera on the other side of the wall to to transform the optical image into electrical impulses. 1938

[GH85Carrera]

Ella Williams (born 1865), also known by her stage name 'Mme Abomah', was an American performer. She was a woman of extraordinary height and strength who became an international celebrity in the late 1800s. Born in South Carolina in 1865 to parents who were former enslaved people, Williams grew to be over eight feet tall after contracting malaria when she was around 14 years old.
Williams gained fame when she agreed to tour Europe as a giantess with Frank C. Bostock in 1896. Bostock promoted her as a member of the legendary Dahomey Amazons, a famous all-female fighting force. He gave her the stage name Mademoiselle Abomah, which came from Abomey, the capital of the Kingdom of Dahomey.
Abomah and her manager decided to take her act to Europe because racism was less pronounced there compared to the United States, and they believed that audiences in Europe would be more accepting of a tall, strong, and beautiful Black woman.
As a result, Abomah toured various parts of Europe, as well as Australia, New Zealand, South America, and Cuba over the course of her 30-year career. She was known for her expensive and extensive wardrobe, which gave her a royal and elegant appearance. Abomah went on a successful tour of Europe between 1910 and 1911, during which she performed in various locations including Liverpool, Blackpool, and at English variety halls. She also toured Australia in 1903, New Zealand between 1904 and 1908, South America in 1909, and visited Coney Island and Cuba in 1917. Additionally, Abomah performed with Reynold's Waxworks and Exhibition in 1900, 1903, and 1912–1913, and with Barnum and Bailey in 1918. In 1920, she performed at Dreamland[6] and the World's Museum, and in 1921, it was announced that she was going to sail to Paris for a three-month engagemen
Abomah cancelled her tours and returned to the US when Britain declared w@r on Germany in August 1914. She continued to work for Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey, and at Coney Island until the 1920s when she left the show business








Undaunted by lack of electricity after their unit moved to a new area in the South Pacific, three soldier-mechanics of a Service Squadron of the 13th AAF Service Command applied GI ingenuity to design a generator from salvaged parts of 16 condemned jeeps. The generator has a self-starter, and a jeep panel holds the necessary indicator gauges. US Archives pic.

[john70t]

[GH85Carrera]

The USS Oklahoma behind torpedo nets.


Year 1973
Le Mans 24Hs.
Mirage M6 cars being assembled at the Gulf Racing garage
credit : R.Schlegelmilch.

[Targa68]

[GH85Carrera]

Walpi, Arizona, 1895...
Source
Picture taken inside of a Hopi mesa home...
Source
A.C. Vroman Photograph Collection






This 1877 photograph shows a family living a nomadic life in London!




Florida, 1939...
Oldest child of migrant packinghouse worker's family from Tennessee fixing supper. Her mother and father both work during the day and sometimes until two and three in the morning, leaving the children alone. Belle Glade, Florida...
Source
Farm Security Administration Marion Post Wolcott photographer

[GH85Carrera]

A Texaco service station in Oklahoma City in the 1940s


1890 First Oklahoma Police Department




Just a fun little history for anyone that is interested. UNIVAC was the first commercially available computer. A refined version of ENIAC “the first modern day computer”, it was also called “The Remington UNIVAC”. Why? Well for anyone that has watched an old western you have heard of the Remington Rifle, “the rifle that won the west”. The Remington family became very wealthy thanks to that rifle. So, they invested in an electric razor, further adding to their wealth. So, when they were asked to go in on this computer thing, they figured, what the heck. They wrote the check and a few years later the UNIVAC hit the streets. In total, forty-two were made. The nerve center of UNIVAC was the Supervisory Control” or as we would call it today, a metal desk that is strong enough that you could park a car on it with a keyboard and a three-foot-high panel with a bunch of switches, knobs, and lights on it. As with any great achievement you need to put a nameplate on it and you can’t forget to put the investors name on it. So, on the top center of that switch infested control panel, they placed a red nameplate to let everyone know that thingy-bob is called UNIVAC and that Remington family got in on it.
Today, to the best of my knowledge, only two control panels with their nameplate are still in existence. One can be seen at the computer museum in Boston and the other is on display at the Smithsonian institute. With all that said I would like to show you the only UNIVAC plague that is NOT in a museum.

[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I *think* the king in this cartoon was meant to resemble Charles Laughton.

[GH85Carrera]

Customer complaint: over-heating issue, and a sweet smell coming from the engine.




19 bookshelves with 50,000 book fell over in domino style after the first bookshelf gave way. The library was closed for one day so the mess could be cleaned up. Lorain Public Library in Lorain, Ohio, USA. 1971.


On March 12, 1901, Andrew Carnegie, one of the world’s foremost industrialists, offered the city of New York $5.2 million for the construction of sixty-five branch libraries. The Scottish immigrant’s fortune eventually would establish many more libraries and charitable foundations. The photo shows the Carnegie Library at Montgomery, Alabama

[rcooled]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

On March 12, 1901, Andrew Carnegie, one of the world’s foremost industrialists, offered the city of New York $5.2 million for the construction of sixty-five branch libraries. The Scottish immigrant’s fortune eventually would establish many more libraries and charitable foundations.

The Carnegie Foundation donated $20K for the construction of a library here in town that was in use from 1904 to 1966. Sadly, it was then replaced by a much less attractive 'modern' library building.

[GH85Carrera]

Texas, 1913...
Photographer's Caption
Millie, four years old and Nellie five years old. Cotton pickers on a farm near Houston, Millie picks eight pounds a day and Nellie thirty pounds. This is nearly every day. Home conditions bare and bad. Location: Houston [vicinity], Texas...
Source
National Child Labor Committee Lewis Hine photographer




A Rolls Royce being delivered by a 2 horsepower vehicle back in the old days.


The IBM Naval Ordnance Research Calculatorą (NORC) was the world's most powerful computer from 1954 to 1963. A first-generation vacuum tube computer built between 1950 and 1954 for the U.S. Navy by American astronomer Wallace Eckert˛ (designer of the SSECł) at IBM's Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory⁴, Columbia University, New York City. Numerical analyst and programmer Faith Lillibridge running a lunar orbital calculation. The machine went into service at the Naval Proving Ground in Dahlgren, Virginia. The 138 kW machine was powered by a 1 MHz system clock the arithmetic speed was 15,000 multiplications per second, storage was on eight 3-million word 4-track magnetic tape machines with transfer rates of 70,000 characters/sec from 510 cpi density media. The 2000 words of random access memory was supplied by a bank of 264 Williams-Kilburn electrostatic memory tubes⁵ with fast 8 µs access times. The array of tiny CRT based console readouts showed decimal display of register contents and provided floating point notation and operation. NORC was a three-address machine ("multiply A times B and store the result in C"). It was programmed directly in machine language; assemblers came later. In 1958, the CRT memory was converted to a 20,000-word 8 µs ferrite core memory. In the six months between NORC's completion and its delivery to the Navy, Professor Eckert used it to work on the problem of the position of the moon by computing the ephemerides directly from Ernest W. Brown's lunar theory⁶ equations. The task was immense involving some 1650 trigonometric terms yet the accuracy of the results was so good that after a decade of analysis on the data, in 1965 he was able to correctly show that there was a concentration of mass near the lunar surface, now known as a lunar mascon⁷. NORC was also used to compute the orbits of other celestial bodies, including the most precise orbit of the Earth for the 1920-2000 period. The machine remained in service until 1968. The Asteroid "1625 The NORC" was named after this historic machine.


NORC's arithmetic and control banks consisting of removable plug-in units containing vacuum tubes, resistors, condensers, and crystal diodes.
Word size: 16 decimal digits + check digit (64 + 2 bits)
Two universal registers, one million digits per second
Three address/index registers
Add time: 15 µs
Multiply: 31 µs
Divide: 227 µs