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52 years ago, Enzo Ferrari opened the Fiorano test track, built on fields surrounding his own personal house

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This is a 1943 Ford 1,100 ci Hemi Sherman Tank Engine with triple 4 barrel carbs.










A very attractive male House Finch resting in the full bloom of the Redbud tree near Tulsa, Oklahoma. U.S.A. March 2024

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As the highest paid stuntman in the world, Hal Needham broke 56 bones, his back twice, punctured a lung and knocked out a few teeth. His career has included work on 4500 television episodes and 310 feature films as a stuntman, stunt coordinator, 2nd unit director and ultimately, director. Needham wrecked hundreds of cars, fell from tall buildings, got blown up, was dragged by horses, set a world record for a boat stunt on "Gator" (1976), jumped a rocket powered pick-up truck across a canal for a GM commercial and was the first human to test the car airbag.

Needham on being the stuntman for John Wayne in "In Harm's Way" (1965): "Otto [Otto Preminger] treated the cast like they were dirt, except Wayne. The crew hated him. I thought, 'If I ever become a director, I don't ever want to do that crud. Yeah, I learned a lot of things from those big, big directors. And a lot of it was what I didn't want to do."

When he began directing, Needham's films were usually blasted by the critics but did well at the box office. He once took out an ad in the trade papers quoting his negative reviews but showing a wheelbarrow filled with money to sum up his career.

In 2012, Needham was awarded a Governors Award by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, where he was introduced by Quentin Tarantino. It is said that Needham and his relationship with Burt Reynolds was part of the inspiration behind the Cliff Booth/Rick Dalton friendship in Tarantino's 2019 film "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood."

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During the construction of a new store in Dublin in 2013, the crew discovered the ruins of a historic Viking well dating back to the 11th century. This discovery sparked excitement in the archaeological community. The well is a significant find as it provides a glimpse into the Viking era and the history of Dublin. It's a testament to the city's rich past and the Viking influence on its development. The well is now preserved and can be viewed through a glass section of the floor in the store, offering shoppers a unique glimpse into the city's Viking history.


Technicians working in a NASA computer room at an unspecified location, circa 1960s. Original caption: Guidance and Control Division personnel in the foreground, monitoring on an eight-channel strip recorder; and in the background, reading and recording on a computer of a simulated lunar landing. 1965


Northumbrian Miner At His Evening Meal, 1937

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A hippie girl selling roadside flowers in Oklahoma, 1973. The word hippie is derived from the word hip, which conveys being up to date and fashionable. In the 1950s, “hip” was commonly applied to the Beats (people who rejected standard narrative values), such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, who represented and inspired the bohemian artist communities in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City. These Beat writers and thinkers were idolized by a growing number of youths in the 1960s, and by 1965 a counterculture movement began to converge in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. The term hippie was soon applied by local journalists to this new subculture, and the word gained national (and soon international) recognition in 1967 thanks in large part to the frequent use of the word by San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen. The term can be descriptive or derogatory and was not initially used by the youths to describe themselves.

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