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Historic Photos From the NYC Municipal Archives - In Focus

Historic Photos From the NYC Municipal Archives - In Focus
The New York City Municipal Archives just released a database of over 870,000 photos from its collection of more than 2.2 million images of New York throughout the 20th century. Their subjects include daily life, construction, crime, city business, aerial photographs, and more. I spent hours lost in these amazing photos, and gathered this group together to give you just a glimpse of what's been made available from this remarkable collection. Use j/k keys or ←/→ to navigate Choose: Sunlight floods in through windows in the vaulted main room of New York City's Grand Central Terminal, illuminating the main concourse, ticket windows and information kiosk. Aerial view of New York City, looking north, on December 16, 1951. 28th Street Looking east from Second Avenue, on April 4, 1931. Meeker Avenue Bridge under construction, looking south, showing Brooklyn approach, on June 29, 1939 Shadows are cast beneath the Brooklyn Bridge, seen from a stable roof, on May 6, 1918. The S.S.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Chapter One A SQUAT grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY. The enormous room on the ground floor faced towards the north. Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for all the tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh thin light glared through the windows, hungrily seeking some draped lay figure, some pallid shape of academic goose-flesh, but finding only the glass and nickel and bleakly shining porcelain of a laboratory. "And this," said the Director opening the door, "is the Fertilizing Room." Bent over their instruments, three hundred Fertilizers were plunged, as the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning entered the room, in the scarcely breathing silence, the absent-minded, soliloquizing hum or whistle, of absorbed concentration. "Just to give you a general idea," he would explain to them. Meanwhile, it was a privilege.

BACK TO THE FUTURE 2 (2011) : Irina Werning - Photographer Now its time for KOREA, TAIWAN AND TOKYO. If you live here and want to participate in my project, email me amazing old pictures to : backtothefuturepics@gmail.com Riff Raff 1976 & 2011 London Andy 1967 & 2011 Los Angeles Johanes 1994 & 2011 Hamburg Maarje 1990 & 2011 Amsterdam Lea B 1980 & 2011 Paris Carli 1990 & 2011 Buenos Aires Alexandra 1970 & 2011 Paris Carol 1960 & 2011 New York Christoph 1990 & 2011 Berlin Wall Daphne 1986 & 2011 Paris Devoto 1990 & 2011 Buenos Aires Diego 1970 & 2011 Buenos Aires Evan 1957 & 2011 New York Giorgio 1982 & 2011 Paris Jackie 1994 & 2011 Buenos Aires Juan Carlos 1982 & 2011 Bs Aires Lea T 1995 & 2011 Paris Majo 1983 & 2011 Buenos Aires Marcela 1973 & 2011 Buenos Aires May 1985 & 2011 Buenos Aires Patrick 1968 & 2011 Paris Patrick B 1982 & 2011 Berlin Fer F 1981 & 2011 Buenos Aires Puna 2003 & 2011 Buenos Aires Sander 1983 & 2011 Rotterdam Sarah and Jim 1988 & 2011 Boston Seba 1986 & 2011 Patagonia Sole 1988 & 2011 Buenos Aires Sonia y Lauri 1988 & 2011 Bs Aires

Abandoned Tunnels & Vast Underground Spaces "QUANTUM SHOT" #229Link - by Avi Abrams Urban Exploring at its best Not many travel guides mention these underground systems, creepy tunnels and enormous caverns, located sometimes right under our feet. Most were originally classified (no doubt by Sector Seven), and only recently open to the public. Some are still impossible to enter (due to blocked access points) and hard to explore in their entirety (due to the lost or confusing documentation). But this is where the "spirit of adventure" comes in, as multitudes of amateur photographers descend into the unknown to bring back evidence of things unseen. 1. We'll start in Cluj County, Romania. The closed mine has long tunnels, and a deep natural cave. (images credit: Marius R.) 2. Area 825 (built between 1957 and 1961) - A huge system of tunnels, filled with water - bringing to mind somewhat apocalyptic (or Half-Life) images; this once was the ultimate secret Soviet nuclear submarine base, maintenance & repair facility. 3. 4. ...

The top of the Empire State Building 10 tips to clean and detail your car like a pro "Think of the surface of your car as you would your face," says Mike Schultz, head of new products at Turtle Wax. "It needs to be properly taken care of in order to have a healthy glow." Today, it's easier than ever to do that yourself: Techniques developed by professional detailers have trickled down to passionate car enthusiasts. Auto paint has been improved from the days of lacquer covered with carnauba paste wax, and now it's more durable and shines longer than ever. If you're considering some DIY detailing, proceed with caution. NOTE: When to See a Pro When your paint has a scratch that goes down to the metal, the only way to fix it is by sanding and filling the scratch with paint using a tiny pinstriping brush. Start with Compressed Air and Stiff Scrub Brushes on Your Carpets Many of the cars our Detroit-area pro detailer Brandon Hagaman works on wind up at local car shows—some are concours winners. Duct Clean to Keep that New-Car Smell Use Non-Acid-Based Tire Cleaners

Breed Info - JustPuppies.net New York in Black and White NEW YORK IN BLACK AND WHITE Woolworth West St., 1885 Herald Sq., 1888. 6th Ave. El. Terminal, 1892. Alfred Stieglitz. Winter, 1893. Stieglitz. Central Park. Software Genomic rearrangements can cause disease and are implicated in many cancers. Being able to see the patterns in these changes across samples and patients is important. In the review article End-joining, Translocations and Cancer, Bunting and Nussenzweig demonstrate how compositing the genome circularly adds value and clarity to the presentation. Răzvan Musăloiu-E. explored the Linux file system and used Circos to relate the systems (disk-based, optical mediums, flash-based, network-based, cluster-based, memory-based, ancient) to kernel symbols. Jonathan Feinberg (IBM) created this perfectly circular wordle for me, using content from the Circos site. Visualizing large networks is hard. Circular data tracks naturally support display of information at various resolutions. My first Circos infographic to be published in the New York Times introduces the idea of sequence similarity curves linking circularly composed ideograms. First, understand the requirements. Having trouble?

5 Candidates for the First Rock ‘n’ Roll Song More than 30 years ago, Apple defined the Super Bowl commercial as a cultural phenomenon. Prior to Super Bowl XVIII, nobody watched the game "just for the commercials"—but one epic TV spot, directed by sci-fi legend Ridley Scott, changed all that. Read on for the inside story of the commercial that rocked the world of advertising, even though Apple's Board of Directors didn't want to run it at all. If you haven't seen it, here's a fuzzy YouTube version: The tagline "Why 1984 Won't Be Like '1984'" references George Orwell's 1949 novel 1984, which envisioned a dystopian future, controlled by a televised "Big Brother." Thomas and Hayden wrote up the story of the ad: we see a world of mind-controlled, shuffling men all in gray, staring at a video screen showing the face of Big Brother droning on about "information purification directives." In 1983, in a presentation about the Mac, Jobs introduced the ad to a cheering audience of Apple employees: "... * = A Note on the Airing in 1983

Grimes: 'I want to remake cult sci-fi movie 'Dune'' March 28, 2013 13:28 Singer claims it would be her 'dream' to direct a new version of the '80s film Grimes has revealed that she wants to remake '80s cult movie Dune. The electro-pop artist, who has referenced Frank Herbert's 1965 sci-fi novel in her songs, claims it would be her "dream" to make a new film version. Grimes is due to perform at the Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival in California on April 14 and 21. Pics that don't make you laugh but are still cool I hop you don't mind if I use this thread as an excuse to post some Earth porn: My current Wallpaper, The Havasu Falls The Guilin Mountains "Elephant Foot" Glacier My favorite at the moment: Rainbow(Northern Lights?) Click the images for the full-sized versions.

The Curse of Being Average « Expressiveepicurean’s Blog Where is Your IQ on the Bell Curve? While most people do not want to admit it, the vast majority of people are in fact, average. The bell curve that applies to IQ can also be applied to anything that has a statistical average. Basically, blue is most people, brown is the noticeably above or below average, light blue is very much below or above average and grey is wow on both ends. Most people who are active on the internet have seen this distribution curve before and are familiar with it. The funny part of “averages” is that when surveys are taken about self-perception of any given personal quality or attribute the average (median) result is that people rate themselves at a 7 out of 10. Not everyone can be exceptional in all areas. Pursuing excellence is always a worthy goal and it is unimaginable that anyone would discourage that. But there is nothing wrong with being average in certain areas. It is perfectly ok to be normal Like this: Like Loading... Tags: average, bell curve, IQ

Animal Sleep Most animals have a daily pattern of rest and activity. Some animals are more active during the day (diurnal) and some are more active during the night (nocturnal). How much time do animals spend sleeping? Well, it depends on the animal: References: This table was adapted from four sources: Aserinsky, E., Eyelid condition at birth: relationship to adult mammalian sleep-waking patterns, In Rapid Eye Movement Sleep, edited by B.N.

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