Arkansas River below Dardanelle Dam following extreme rains
(click on lower picture for larger image)
I made it out of the house yesterday for the first time in almost a week. We went into town, but I still wasn’t feeling the greatest.
I guess what I thought was a cold turned out to be the flu strain that’s been going around. Since I didn’t go to the doctor, I [...]
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I’ve finally succumbed to a cold — first one this season of any consequence.
The good news is that I won’t be passing it on to anyone at work because I’m not at work — for now.
I was hired as a contractor to work through the first week of March. Then the students went to [...]
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Assumption of the Mother of God Church in Deviatiny (200 years old). [Russian Empire](English translation of photo title)
Russian Title: Khram vo imia Uspeni?ia Bozh’ei Materi v Deviatinakh (200 liet). [Rossiiskaia imperiia]
abt. 1909
Prokudin-Gorskii, Sergei Mikhailovich, 1863-1944, photographer.
album: Views along the Mariinskii Canal and river system, Russian Empire
Digital color composite made for the Library by Blaise Agüera [...]
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Stonington Conecticut in 1940
While I like taking and sharing photographs, I also like finding and sharing public domain historical photos.
1940 Nov.
Delano, Jack, 1914- photographer.
Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection
Original digital image at Library of Congress
Mike’s edited and enhanced version on flickr
I don’t spend much time on YouTube or other video sites, but today I came across some interesting historical footage.
The following excerpts are from Wikipedia
The Tacoma Narrows Bridge is a pair of mile-long suspension bridges in the U.S. state of Washington, which carry State Route 16 across the Tacoma Narrows between Tacoma and the [...]
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