Mystery - one of the 2 horses in the field opposite our house. I noticed the light was golden and went over to get some shots. Gypsy wouldn't pose for me but Mystery did so I got a couple of shots that captured the light.
Ancient Skulls Mystery Not Cracked - Did Jim Crow Really Mail Them?
News about the ancient skulls mystery being cracked is false, according to a state archeologist, concerning a mysterious package that was mailed to his college campus, recently. The age of the skulls . . .
On this week's "Schemes and Rip-offs" a lot of people are getting letters lately, which appear to offer jobs as mystery shoppers. Valley News Team's Daron Selvig tells us why if you get one, it could be a scam.
When the new houseparent took over in the flat I was in at the children's home, several humours drawings by Marcia Lane Foster were hung on the walls. This one was originally put in the boy's bathroom, the houseparent later moved it to my bedroom and hung it above my bed for bedwetting. I took it as a joke, which possibly upset the Houseparent, she still used the slipper on me after any accident. ---------------------------------------------------- Note from their records in my Children's Home file. There are now only minor instances of bedwetting during the past few months. After agreement with the mother, the new Houseparent has brought in a strict regime, and Philip realises that, he will be punished for any bedwetting.
Toilet Humor
Image by geeknerd99
Can't believe I didn't upload this earlier. Found this in a men's bathroom in China.
Fitness First Launches 'Get Fit With Mel B' Group Exercise Class
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM--(Marketwire - 11/05/10) - Fitness First has launched a new group exercise class called 'Get Fit with Mel B' with the former Spice Girl bringing the star's enthusiasm for keeping fit to over 400,000 members. The class is designed for maximum fat burning, toning and weight loss and suitable for all fitness levels. The interval workout combines high intensity aerobic and ...
Fitness First Launches 'Get Fit With Mel B' Group Exercise Class
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM--(Marketwire - Nov. 5, 2010) - Fitness First has launched a new group exercise class called 'Get Fit with Mel B' with the former Spice Girl bringing the star's enthusiasm for keeping fit to over 400,000 members.
Library of Congress...Public Domain.Ft. Sanders, Knoxville, Tenn., showing saliant assaulted by Longstreets forces, Nov. 29th 1863.Telegraph wire was strung between the stumps to trip the attacking conferderate soldiers during the assault.This Battlefield no longer exists.
U. S. Engineers Orville E. Babcock, left, seated on a tree stump, and Orlando Poe, right, standing on a war damaged salient in Fort Sanders, Knoxville, Tennessee.
"Orville Elias Babcock (December 25, 1835 â€" June 2, 1884) was an American Civil War general in the Union Army.
Born in Franklin, Vermont, Babcock graduated third in a class of forty-five from West Point in 1861. During the Civil War, he served as Nathaniel P. Banks' aide-de-camp until August 1861. He then was assigned to help construct the defenses around Washington D.C.. On November 17, 1861, he was promoted to first lieutenant and assigned to the Left Grand Division as the Chief Engineer. Babcock was promoted to lieutenant colonel on January 1, 1863, and was named the Assistant Inspector General of the VI Corps until February 6, when he was named the Assistant Inspector General and Chief Engineer of the IX Corps. He fought with the IX Corps at the Battle of Vicksburg and the Battle of Blue Springs, and the Battle of Campbell's Station.
After fighting in the Knoxville Campaign, he was became the Chief Engineer of the Department of the Ohio on January 23, 1863. On March 29, Babcock was promoted to lieutenant colonel and became the aide-de-camp to General Ulysses S. Grant where he participated in the Battle of the Wilderness, the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House and Battle of Cold Harbor. As Grant's aide-de-camp, it fell to Babcock to deliver Grant's surrender demand to General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox, Virginia, and to escort Lee to his meeting with Grant at the Appomattox Court House." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orville_E._Babcock
"Orlando Metcalfe Poe (March 7, 1832 â€" October 2, 1895) was an United States Army officer and engineer. He was responsible for much of the early lighthouse construction on the Great Lakes.
Poe was born in Navarre, Ohio. He attended the United States Military Academy, graduating sixth in his class in 1856. From then until 1861 he served as assistant topographical engineer on the survey of the northern Great Lakes; during this time he was promoted to First Lieutenant.
At the start of the American Civil War, Poe assisted in organizing the volunteers from Ohio; later, he was made a member of Maj. Gen. George McClellan's staff. He assisted by organizing the defense of Washington D.C., and was promoted to colonel that September, when he was placed in charge of the 2nd Michigan Volunteers. He commanded them successfully from Yorktown through the battle of Seven Pines during the Peninsula campaign and was then given field command of a brigade prior to Second Bull Run. He was appointed to brigadier general of volunteers effective November 29, 1862, however the appointment was not confirmed by Congress in the spring of 1863. Poe reverted to his old rank of captain in the regular army and was soon transferred to the western theater, where, in his capacity as chief engineer of the XXIII Corps, he aided in the capture of Knoxville, Tennessee. This city he successfully defended against a siege led by Confederate Lt. Gen. James Longstreet, which culminated in the November 29, 1863, Battle of Fort Sanders. For essentially this action, William T. Sherman selected Poe as his chief engineer in 1864. Poe oversaw the burning of Atlanta, for which action he was honored by Sherman. He continued to serve as chief engineer during Sherman's March to the Sea as well as in the war's concluding Carolinas Campaign." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Poe
Maintenance mechanic in largest coal press in world, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. (LOC)
Image by The Library of Congress
Palmer, Alfred T.,, photographer.
Maintenance mechanic in largest coal press in world, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.
1942 June
1 transparency : color.
Notes: Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 Boiler industry Presses Mechanics (Persons) United States--Tennessee--Chattanooga
Format: Transparencies--Color
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 12002-35 (DLC) 93845501
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad conductor George E. Burton and engineer J.W. Edwards comparing time before pulling out of Corwith railroad yard for Chillicothe, Illinois; Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
Image by The Library of Congress
Delano, Jack,, 1914-, photographer.
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad conductor George E. Burton and engineer J.W. Edwards comparing time before pulling out of Corwith railroad yard for Chillicothe, Illinois; Chicago, Ill.
1943 March
1 transparency : color.
Notes: Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.
Subjects: Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad World War, 1939-1945 Railroad shops & yards Railroad employees United States--Illinois--Chicago
Format: Transparencies--Color
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 12002-3 (DLC) 93845501
Inspired by REM. I really lost faith with this band back in the early 90's, but when they come out and say "Yep, we lost our way..." I've got to respect that. Show us something inspired by REM.
I'm not the biggest REM fan.I think I might know two songs off the top of my head.Losing My Religion and It's The End Of The World As We Know It (or whatever the title of that song is).In doing research for this assignment, I have come to the conclusion that most of their songs don't make any sense when you read them.Listening might be different, but the lyrics don't make a lick of sense in most of the songs.Maybe it is just me, but I was scratching my head after reading the lyrics to almost every single song.
Anyway, I decided to go with what I knew, as limited as that may be.
Losing My Religion
Life is bigger It's bigger than you And you are not me The lengths that I will go to The distance in your eyes Oh no I've said too much I set it up
That's me in the corner That's me in the spotlight Losing my religion Trying to keep up with you And I don't know if I can do it Oh no I've said too much I haven't said enough I thought that I heard you laughing I thought that I heard you sing I think I thought I saw you try
Every whisper Of every waking hour I'm Choosing my confessions Trying to keep an eye on you Like a hurt lost and blinded fool Oh no I've said too much I set it up
Consider this The hint of the century Consider this The slip that brought me To my knees failed What if all these fantasies Come flailing around Now I've said too much I thought that I heard you laughing I thought that I heard you sing I think I thought I saw you try
But that was just a dream That was just a dream
religion
Image by lanier67
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. Steven Weinberg
Library of Congress...Public Domain.Ft. Sanders, Knoxville, Tenn., showing saliant assaulted by Longstreets forces, Nov. 29th 1863.Telegraph wire was strung between the stumps to trip the attacking conferderate soldiers during the assault.This Battlefield no longer exists.
U. S. Engineers Orville E. Babcock, left, seated on a tree stump, and Orlando Poe, right, standing on a war damaged salient in Fort Sanders, Knoxville, Tennessee.
"Orville Elias Babcock (December 25, 1835 â€" June 2, 1884) was an American Civil War general in the Union Army.
Born in Franklin, Vermont, Babcock graduated third in a class of forty-five from West Point in 1861. During the Civil War, he served as Nathaniel P. Banks' aide-de-camp until August 1861. He then was assigned to help construct the defenses around Washington D.C.. On November 17, 1861, he was promoted to first lieutenant and assigned to the Left Grand Division as the Chief Engineer. Babcock was promoted to lieutenant colonel on January 1, 1863, and was named the Assistant Inspector General of the VI Corps until February 6, when he was named the Assistant Inspector General and Chief Engineer of the IX Corps. He fought with the IX Corps at the Battle of Vicksburg and the Battle of Blue Springs, and the Battle of Campbell's Station.
After fighting in the Knoxville Campaign, he was became the Chief Engineer of the Department of the Ohio on January 23, 1863. On March 29, Babcock was promoted to lieutenant colonel and became the aide-de-camp to General Ulysses S. Grant where he participated in the Battle of the Wilderness, the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House and Battle of Cold Harbor. As Grant's aide-de-camp, it fell to Babcock to deliver Grant's surrender demand to General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox, Virginia, and to escort Lee to his meeting with Grant at the Appomattox Court House." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orville_E._Babcock
"Orlando Metcalfe Poe (March 7, 1832 â€" October 2, 1895) was an United States Army officer and engineer. He was responsible for much of the early lighthouse construction on the Great Lakes.
Poe was born in Navarre, Ohio. He attended the United States Military Academy, graduating sixth in his class in 1856. From then until 1861 he served as assistant topographical engineer on the survey of the northern Great Lakes; during this time he was promoted to First Lieutenant.
At the start of the American Civil War, Poe assisted in organizing the volunteers from Ohio; later, he was made a member of Maj. Gen. George McClellan's staff. He assisted by organizing the defense of Washington D.C., and was promoted to colonel that September, when he was placed in charge of the 2nd Michigan Volunteers. He commanded them successfully from Yorktown through the battle of Seven Pines during the Peninsula campaign and was then given field command of a brigade prior to Second Bull Run. He was appointed to brigadier general of volunteers effective November 29, 1862, however the appointment was not confirmed by Congress in the spring of 1863. Poe reverted to his old rank of captain in the regular army and was soon transferred to the western theater, where, in his capacity as chief engineer of the XXIII Corps, he aided in the capture of Knoxville, Tennessee. This city he successfully defended against a siege led by Confederate Lt. Gen. James Longstreet, which culminated in the November 29, 1863, Battle of Fort Sanders. For essentially this action, William T. Sherman selected Poe as his chief engineer in 1864. Poe oversaw the burning of Atlanta, for which action he was honored by Sherman. He continued to serve as chief engineer during Sherman's March to the Sea as well as in the war's concluding Carolinas Campaign." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Poe
Maintenance mechanic in largest coal press in world, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. (LOC)
Image by The Library of Congress
Palmer, Alfred T.,, photographer.
Maintenance mechanic in largest coal press in world, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.
1942 June
1 transparency : color.
Notes: Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 Boiler industry Presses Mechanics (Persons) United States--Tennessee--Chattanooga
Format: Transparencies--Color
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 12002-35 (DLC) 93845501
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad conductor George E. Burton and engineer J.W. Edwards comparing time before pulling out of Corwith railroad yard for Chillicothe, Illinois; Chicago, Ill. (LOC)
Image by The Library of Congress
Delano, Jack,, 1914-, photographer.
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad conductor George E. Burton and engineer J.W. Edwards comparing time before pulling out of Corwith railroad yard for Chillicothe, Illinois; Chicago, Ill.
1943 March
1 transparency : color.
Notes: Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.
Subjects: Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad World War, 1939-1945 Railroad shops & yards Railroad employees United States--Illinois--Chicago
Format: Transparencies--Color
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 12002-3 (DLC) 93845501
Jews at Jon Stewart's 'sanity' rally find plenty of like-minded
WASHINGTON (JTA) -- When "Saturday Night Live" alum “Father Guido Sarducci," delivering the benediction at Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity, ran through a list of religions seeking the true faith, Judaism received the biggest applause.
