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[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by jcwade

National Lampoon cover

It made an impression!

https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/who-shot-mr-cheeseface-the-vermont-demise-of-a-famous-mutt/Content?oid=23671435

[GH85Carrera]

[red 928]

[GH85Carrera]

Amazing Ancient Wonder: The Giant's Causeway in Co Antrim consists of more than 40,000 hexagonal basalt columns which were formed when magma spurted through cracks in the Earth's surface 60 million years ago.


Las Vegas, New Mexico
Date: ca. 1880 - 1882


Hong Kong.

[GH85Carrera]

Building Empire State building, 1930,
the entire building went up in just over a year, under budget (at $40 million) and well ahead of schedule


"Sleeping dragon eye" at White pockets, Vermillion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona, United States.
Over time, a smooth basin has gradually been eroded into the stone within the undulating landscape of pillowed rocks at White pockets. An inky pool of captured rainwater creates the illusion of a "dragon eye" and this dark liquid mirror seems to be bottomless and hiding mysteries.




Battleship Wisconsin lets loose with a salvo of her massive Mark 7 16-inch guns.
You can see one of the shells just in front of gas ring as it exits the barrel.



The Nimitz class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) making her way down the Elizabeth River after departing the Norfolk Naval Shipyard.
For a ship the size of a supercarrier, navigating the river is no small feat. A cloud of silt can be seen behind the carrier, stirred up by her massive screws. Tugs maintain close formation around the carrier, ready to step in if needed.
After navigating the river, the carrier will return to her base at Naval Station Norfolk at Hampton Roads.
At the top of the photo, the stern and upperworks of the Iowa class battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64) can be seen.


Twenty-mule team hauling borax out of Death Valley to the railroad
c. 1900
From The California Historical Society

[GH85Carrera]

[TimT]

Me somewhere in the Negev 1980?




Taco joint in Rockaway Beach, NY




Pristine Diner in Castleton, VT




Inspiration for some of my ink..

[masraum]

[GH85Carrera]

New York City Children Playing Next to a Dead Horse. As of 1903, this dairy company was located at 527 West 125th Street.There are 10 kids,all but one seem to be barefoot, playing in the street gutter and around puddles of raw sewage,all within in a few feet of a dead horse; circa 1903

[daepp]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Amazing Ancient Wonder: The Giant's Causeway in Co Antrim consists of more than 40,000 hexagonal basalt columns which were formed when magma spurted through cracks in the Earth's surface 60 million years ago.

Devil's Postpile, on the eastern Sierra, not far from Mammoth. Hike down their with my little boy on my back circa 1996. As soon as I saw your shot, and all those hexagons, I knew that had to be basalt. I don't know the "why", but I was pretty wure "what"!

[masraum]

Originally Posted by daepp

Devil's Postpile, on the eastern Sierra, not far from Mammoth. Hike down their with my little boy on my back circa 1996. As soon as I saw your shot, and all those hexagons, I knew that had to be basalt. I don't know the "why", but I was pretty wure "what"!

I think columnar basalt is not uncommon anywhere there's been volcanic activity. I've seen it in the cascades in Washington. And many/most of us are probably very familiar with...

[GH85Carrera]

Grand Falls, Arizona in USA


On June 14, 1951, the U.S. Census Bureau dedicates UNIVAC, the first commercially produced electronic digital computer in the United States. UNIVAC, which stood for Universal Automatic Computer, was developed by a team of engineers led by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, makers of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer. These giant computers, which used thousands of vacuum tubes for computation, were the forerunners of today’s digital computers.
The search for mechanical devices to aid computation began in ancient times. The abacus, developed in various forms by the Babylonians, Chinese, and Romans, was by definition the first digital computer because it calculated values by using digits. A mechanical digital calculating machine was built in France in 1642, but a 19th century Englishman, Charles Babbage, is credited with devising most of the principles on which modern computers are based. His “Analytical Engine,” begun in the 1830s and never completed for lack of funds, was based on a mechanical loom and would have been the first programmable computer.
By the 1920s, companies such as the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) were supplying governments and businesses with complex punch-card tabulating systems, but these mechanical devices had only a fraction of the calculating power of the first electronic digital computer, the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC). Completed by John Atanasoff of Iowa State in 1939, the ABC could by 1941 solve up to 29 simultaneous equations with 29 variables. Influenced by Atanasoff’s work, Presper Eckert and John Mauchly set about building the first general-purpose electronic digital computer in 1943. The sponsor was the U.S. Army Ordnance Department, which wanted a better way of calculating artillery firing tables, and the work was done at the University of Pennsylvania.
ENIAC, which stood for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator, was completed in 1946 at a cost of nearly $500,000. It took up 15,000 feet, employed 17,000 vacuum tubes, and was programmed by plugging and replugging some 6,000 switches. It was first used in a calculation for Los Alamos Laboratories in December 1945, and in February 1946 it was formally dedicated.
Following the success of ENIAC, Eckert and Mauchly decided to go into private business and founded the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation. They proved less able businessmen than they were engineers, and in 1950 their struggling company was acquired by Remington Rand, an office equipment company. On June 14, 1951, Remington Rand delivered its first computer, UNIVAC I, to the U.S. Census Bureau. It weighed 16,000 pounds, used 5,000 vacuum tubes, and could perform about 1,000 calculations per second. On November 4, 1952, the UNIVAC achieved national fame when it correctly predicted Dwight D. Eisenhower’s unexpected landslide victory in the presidential election after only a tiny percentage of the votes were in.
UNIVAC and other first-generation computers were replaced by transistor computers of the late 1950s, which were smaller, used less power, and could perform nearly a thousand times more operations per second. These were, in turn, supplanted by the integrated-circuit machines of the mid-1960s and 1970s. In the 1980s, the development of the microprocessor made possible small, powerful computers such as the personal computer, and more recently the laptop and hand-held computers.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

And that would be far, far harder to crack than "P@55word" or pretty much any 8 character password.

[Jim Horton]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Hong Kong.

Looks like something from "Blade Runner" or "The Fifth Element"

[GH85Carrera]

Not the original cabin at this site (but still an oldie built in 1867), this is the exact location of the first 160 acre plot given away under the Homestead Act. Union Army soldier Daniel Freeman received homestead patent number one for the land (located in Nebraska.) The National Park Service operates the site today.








Located near the town of Twin Falls, Shoshone Falls is a natural beauty on the Snake River. At 212 feet, the falls are higher than Niagara Falls. The falls and park offer a unique blend of recreational facilities, including playgrounds, hiking trails, picnic areas, a boat ramp, swimming area, and a scenic overlook. A picnic in the shaded, grassy areas provides a perfect vantage point for viewing Shoshone Falls.

[NeedSpace]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Not the original cabin at this site (but still an oldie built in 1867), this is the exact location of the first 160 acre plot given away under the Homestead Act. Union Army soldier Daniel Freeman received homestead patent number one for the land (located in Nebraska.) The National Park Service operates the site today.

C. A. Nothnagle Log House (also known as Braman-Nothnagle Log House) is a historic house on Swedesboro-Paulsboro Road near Swedesboro in the Gibbstown section of Greenwich Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States. It is one of the oldest surviving log houses in the United States. The oldest part of the house was built sometime between 1638 and 1643 by Finnish or Swedish settlers in the New Sweden colony, and Nordic ironware from the 1590s is still extant around the fireplace. The fireplace, probably built of bricks brought over to North America as ship's ballast, is asymmetric and placed in a corner of the cabin.

I am not positive what New Jersey was called back then, but from what I understand, NJ was called New Netherlands up until the Brits took it.

[GH85Carrera]

Hengifoss Waterfall, Iceland


White Pocket in Arizona, USA!

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Not the original cabin at this site (but still an oldie built in 1867), this is the exact location of the first 160 acre plot given away under the Homestead Act. Union Army soldier Daniel Freeman received homestead patent number one for the land (located in Nebraska.) The National Park Service operates the site today.

We ran into 2 or 3 historic log cabins a couple of weeks ago. One was like that, a small square box. The other was a dog trot, so two small square boxes separated with a roof over the whole thing including the space in between. Then there was also an added on "kitchen."

Originally Posted by NeedSpace

C. A. Nothnagle Log House (also known as Braman-Nothnagle Log House) is a historic house on Swedesboro-Paulsboro Road near Swedesboro in the Gibbstown section of Greenwich Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States. It is one of the oldest surviving log houses in the United States. The oldest part of the house was built sometime between 1638 and 1643 by Finnish or Swedish settlers in the New Sweden colony, and Nordic ironware from the 1590s is still extant around the fireplace. The fireplace, probably built of bricks brought over to North America as ship's ballast, is asymmetric and placed in a corner of the cabin.

I am not positive what New Jersey was called back then, but from what I understand, NJ was called New Netherlands up until the Brits took it.

That's really amazing.

[A930Rocket]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

New York City Children Playing Next to a Dead Horse. As of 1903, this dairy company was located at 527 West 125th Street.There are 10 kids,all but one seem to be barefoot, playing in the street gutter and around puddles of raw sewage,all within in a few feet of a dead horse; circa 1903

Maybe he’s tired and just taking a nap? 😂

[John Rogers]

Interesting place.....seems the founding fathers worked way better together after a few drinks so thay could agree on what should be in our countries founding documents easier!