A group of longtime friends play poker while waiting for deer hunting season to officially open.
Leakey, Texas
1972

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A group of longtime friends play poker while waiting for deer hunting season to officially open.
Leakey, Texas
1972
Richard Leakey (died: 2 January 2022)
One girl smokes pot while her friend watches during an outing in Cedar Woods near Leakey, Texas, 1973.
Photography: Marc St. Gil
A bit of December 2nd history...
1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Emperor of France in Paris
1823 - US President Monroe declares his “Monroe Doctrine” a US foreign policy regarding Latin America
1845 - Manifest Destiny: US President Polk announces to Congress that the US should aggressively expand into the West (pictured)
1942 - World’s 1st self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction occurs in Chicago Pile-1; world’s 1st nuclear reactor
1960 - Paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey discovers 1.4 million year old Homo erectus in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
1971 - United Arab Emirates forms and declares independence from UK
1976 - Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba
2014 - Stephen Hawking claims that Artificial Intelligence could be a “threat to mankind” and spell the end of the human race
Leakey, Texas, c. 1973. Photo by The U.S. National Archives.
Introduce young readers to the life of Mary Leakey with this lovely picture book.
Book Review
Anthropologist Dr. Richard Leakey at work in the field, 1973.
Black Magic M-66