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National Association of Manufacturers - 19480327 Post on Flickr.

#political poster #20th century

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Find mystery weed in truck-don't question it. Roast it. Ganja luck.

#luck #ganja

americanguide

THE DAY THE LAND WAS OURS - PROVINCETOWN/TRURO, MASSACHUSETTS

Provincetown in the dead of winter can make you feel like the last person on earth. There are few signs of life: the beaches are empty, most of the hotels and shops are shuttered.

This is in stark contrast to its highly populated summer months, when Provincetown and the neighboring towns along Cape Cod’s farthest reach become vacationland. It’s 40 miles of pristine, sandy shoreline with a plethora of independent shops, local seafood, and a vibrant artistic community. (It’s no wonder that people flock here for a few months out of the year.)

After spending many summers in P-town throughout my life, my husband and I decided to head there on a recent snowy and cold January day. It was exactly as we expected it to be: empty, cold, quiet (eerily quiet), but beautiful.

It was just the ocean and us… well, us and that one gypsy golfer we saw roaming about the course.

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Brittany Marcoux is a Guide to Rhode Island and an At-Large Guide to New England for The American Guide. She’s a photographer and a native New Englander. Follow her work on Tumblr or via her website.

cattmook-blog

Looks cool.

#America #travel #massachussettes

flitchylicious

cattmook-blog

Please?

americanguide

THE WORLD’S GREATEST MINERAL SEA

SOAP LAKE, WASHINGTON

“For Stomach Troubles, Constipation, Headache, Rheumatism, or whenever a thorough constitutional remedy is needed, take Soap Lake Capsules. Price 25 cents per box.”

— 1906 advertisement for Soap Lake Remedy Company

At the south end of Washington’s ancient river bed, the Grand Coulee, you’ll find the healing waters of Soap Lake tucked among the columnar basalt cliffs and rim-rock slopes of the central shrub-steppe desert.

Containing 23 different minerals, researchers have determined that the chemistry of the lake has more in common with outer space than it does with Earth’s water. Because the alkalinity of Soap Lake resembles the moons of Jupiter, scientists have studied the lake in an effort to learn about the possibility of life on Mars.

Our human experience of the lake was nothing short of miraculous, as we polar-bear plunged the coastline on a windy day that topped off at cool 38 degrees. The soap-like waters leave behind an oily film that promises to cure what ails you. The plaque at the beach boldly declares that “…This is indeed a god-given body of water for to cure all the ills of mankind.”

And if all that isn’t remarkable enough, the city of Soap Lake plans to install a 50-foot Lava Lamp on Main Street. Just because.

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State Guide to Washington and Idaho, Mary Rothlisberger is a thinker, writer, reader, hide-and-go-seeker finder situated in the hinterland of North America. She loves small towns, long winters, optimists, parades, and the United States Postal Service. Keep up with her projects at bang! bang! boomerang and see where she’s been sending mail at GOD BLESS THE USPS.

cattmook-blog

I are go here soon

#washington #fuckyeah

did-you-know

Source

historical-hatred

I did a post about this if you chumps weren’t paying attention [little tip, you WEREN’T].

cattmook-blog

Damn.

#brutal #WWII

Log number unknown...

I've been here a while. Been sitting. Writing. I walked in the door, turned on the light like usual. The window's open but the air is crisp. I look back towards my scratch. Something on the television catches my ear. I chuckle. I go back to my writing. In an instant I become barren in thought. I feel like I forgot something. I turn on the television.

#thought #Log number unknown...#Short #free form poetry #funny situations

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cattmook-blog

Waaaaant.

#nums

zorrozapatistazootero-deactivat

cattmook-blog

Haha!

theamericanparlor

Pentagon Opens Combat Roles to Women-2013

We’ve Come A Long Way Baby- But We Were Already There!-American Women Have Fought in Combat Since the Revolutionary War to the Civil War

The Pentagon is lifting its ban on women serving in combat, opening hundreds of thousands of front-line positions and potentially elite commando jobs after generations of limits on their service. Women comprise about 14 percent of the 1.4 million active military personnel. More than 280,000 women have been sent to Iraq, Afghanistan or to jobs in neighboring nations in support of the wars. Of the more than 6,600 who have been killed, 152 have been women.

Both the Union and Confederate armies forbade the enlistment of women, therefore they assumed masculine names, disguised themselves as men, and hid the fact they were female. Because they passed as men, it is impossible to know with any certainty how many women soldiers served in the Civil War. Possibly 450-750. Estimates place as many as 250 women in the ranks of the Confederate army.

Frances Clalin Clayton-She served side by side with her husband until he died in battle. It was during the Battle of Stones River (or Murfreesboro), on December 31, 1862, that her husband died. He was only a few feet in front of Clalin when he was killed, but some sources say that she did not stop fighting - she stepped over his body and charged when the commands came.

Sources: MSN News. (Photo: U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Marionne T. Mangrum) & Frances Clayton from Wikipedia. Women in the Civil War http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/femvets2.html Statistics-http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The-Women-Who-Fought-in-the-Civil-War.html

cattmook-blog

Hmm

#women's history

The statement (oh you don't want to share any of your pie? fine, i'll go eat some of this pie.) is applicable, in analogy to, numerous circumstances.

#ideas #stoned #boredom #thought #purple #sex #relationships #money #global exchange #business #war #society #religion #pie

selfiesatyourfuneral

Awkward.

oahficw

Brilliant.

historical-hatred

Non-preachy quick historical etiquette tip:

You probably shouldn’t talk to people of different nationalities about who you think was ‘right’ in their nation’s civil wars. They’re usually centuries in the making, and infinitely more complicated than an outsider can perceive.

Of course, you still can, just don’t be expecting any hugs and kisses for your opinions! Chances are you just glossed over 80% of the major stuff that means a lot to those who lived it, but zilch to outsiders. Brother killing brother is a touchy subject!