The depression ground on, and still that stupid hand stood in the park, weird and brown, just feet off the ground, ignored like hallway furniture. via jason-cochran.com Good story on the initial disregard for the Status of Liberty.
via photographyserved.com Should guilty seek asylum here, Like one pardoned, he becomes free from sin. Should a sinner make his way to this mansion, All his past sins are to be washed away. The sight of this mansion creates sorrowing sighs; And the sun and the moon...
Note: The poem was written in January, 2005 after having received for Christmas a few weeks earlier a binder filled with hundreds of digitized family photos. There's something about seeing one's parents not as you remember them, but rather as they were from a time long...
via wackyowl.com Nice photo collection of relics of American culture and history now abandoned.
via life.com Pictured: A never-published photo of Einstein's papers, pipe, ashtray, chalk, and other personal belongings in his Princeton office on the morning of April 18, 1955. Historical photos such as this one not only fascinate me, I find them poignant as...
Thus, we can estimate that Shakespeare knew approximately 66,534 words. According to one estimate, the average speaker of English knows between 10,000-20,000 words. via kottke.org My personal opinion is that he was a genius.
I could not accept that the port be wantonly destroyed when the war was clearly lost. via washingtonpost.com Interesting story of Heinz Stahlschmidt, a World War II demolitions expert who defied orders and saved the French port of Bordeaux. He passed away at 91...
via englishrussia.com ...this one was abandoned long before the USSR collapse, it was doomed to be abandoned from the beginning. It was built by a personal Stalin’s order in the middle of nowhere - deep inside Northern Siberia between Salekhard city and Igarka town...
