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Dixie · Dixie's Garage

David & Angie Bowie with baby, 1971. David is on the right.

Dixie · Dixie's Garage

Neil Armstrong

Dixie · Dixie's Garage

Vickie Dougan, "The Back." This is one of my favorite photos. Not because I'm blessed with such a figure, but because I love the look on the older woman's face.

Racerbvd · Racerbvd's Garage

asphaltgambler · 09-29-2023, 12:41 AM

I'm 50% scared that she'd cut me into pieces, then toss me out in the woods but the other 50% of me ...............well.......

Geronimo '74 · 09-29-2023, 03:17 AM

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GH85Carrera · GH85Carrera's Garage

Hops grow much higher than grapevines. "Pruning in the hop gardens of Faversham" (c 1910). By London photographer William Whiffin (1878-1957), who pioneered what would later be termed "street photography in London's East End."

The Twenty-Mule Team
The saga of the twenty mule teams began with the discovery of borax in California in 1881. William T. Coleman devised a practical and economical method for freighting borax ore from the “mines” in Death Valley’s vast dry lake beds to the nearest railhead at Mojave.
Coleman found that twenty mules could move 36 tons with relative ease and hired Ed Stiles to drive the first twenty-mule team between Harmony and Mojave. The route covered 165 miles of raw, blistering temperatures, desolate mountains, and desert and was dictated by the country’s topography and water availability.
The mules were watered by transporting 500-gallon iron tanks on wheels, and the natural springs had to be improved by digging out and cleaning. The men’s food was carried along the wagons.
The most difficult problem was building wagons capable of hauling heavy loads of borax over the rough desert and mountain trails. The wagons were built in Mojave for $900 each and were sixteen feet long, four feet wide, and six feet deep.
Twenty mule teams hauled borax out of Death Valley from 1883 to 1889, traveling 15 to 18 miles a day, a twenty-day round trip. One set of wagons is still in running condition and can be seen at the visitor’s viewing point on the edge of the U.S. Borax open pit mine.
The driver had to be a practicing veterinarian and a wheelwright to make minor repairs to the wagons. The swamper helped apply the brakes, gather fuel, cook, and wash dishes.
The one-way trip from the mine to the railroad point took about ten days. The trip was hazardous due to heat, desolation, rattlesnakes, and a general chance of injury.

Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem is a crusader pub established in 1189 AD – the year Pope Gregory VIII called for a Third Crusade to the Holy Land and the year that Richard the Lionheart became king of England and started organising the Third Crusade. It sits below Castle Rocks and the walls of Nottingham Castle, in the herart of the town centre. Many man made tunnels and caves connect to it, dating back over a thoudand years. Robin Hood a figure of English folklore, but also believed to be based on a real person who lived in Nottinghamshire and who went on the crusade, is said to have frequented the inn. The inn is also haunted by former crusaders.
King Richard the Lionheart and his men congregated at the pub before embarking on the Third Crusade in Jerusalem, giving the pub its name. Evidence suggests that caves in the rock against which the pub is built were used as a brew-house for Nottingham Castle, and may date from around the time the castle was built in 1067, then being extended as a pub for townsfolk outside the Castle walls.
Richard the Lionheart ruled England, the Principalities of Wales, and also ruled lands as Lord of Ireland, Duke of Normandy, Aquitaine and Gascony; Lord of Cyprus; Count of Poitiers, Anjou, Maine, and Nantes; and was overlord of Brittany. Richard I ruled over much of France during the Angevin Empire (sometimes called the first English Empire).
Richard had already taken the cross as Count of Poitou in 1187. His father and Philip II had done so at Gisors on 21 January 1188 after receiving news of the fall of Jerusalem to Saladin. After Richard became king, he and Philip II agreed to go on the Third Crusade, since each feared that during his absence the other might usurp his territories, they collectively organized the Crusade.