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Broken Slide, Moscow, 1982 © Boris Savelev, via Photo Espana.

When perestroika came about, dealers in the United States and Europe travelled to Moscow and Saint Petersburg in the quest for ‘authentic voices’. Secret City: Photographs of the USSR by Boris Savelev (Thames and Hudson, 1988) was the outcome of this effort and became the first monograph in the West devoted to an unofficial photographer from the now-defunct USSR. Now this exhibition is presented as a broader retrospective on Savelev up to today. It surveys the six decades in which he captured the everyday making—not only taking—photographs: from his beginnings in black and white with his Iskra 6×6 and his Leica, including his colour pictures in the 1980s with both Soviet Owarchrome and Western Kodachrome film, until his incorporation of digital technology

From Time Magazine, covering an earlier exhibition at the Michael Hoppen gallery:

Savelev, who spent his working life in the former Soviet Union as a rocket engineer, brings the same methodical eye to his photography and printing process.

Personally I like this image for its small burst of colour in a nearly monochrome landscape, done without the trickery that's usually required for that effect. His other works are well worth a look, too.

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Name: Agent Havok Home: Mauville, Hoenn Role: Rhythm Guitar and vocalist

Agent Havok is an Unovian army veteran, who's seen combat and takes a pretty huge stance against war of any kind. His military service had him on the front lines, using his skills as an engineer to keep Unovan tech working. He works as a mechanic now, working on motorcycles is his day job. There's rumours that he used to work for Silph Co. and subsequently Team Rocket, especially when it came to very specific experiments pertaining to a very specific Pokémon. His regrets spur him to action, standing for Pokémon rights, hoping that he can fight to save them abuse and subjugation. He often rescues Pokémon from abusive humans and rehomes them.

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Challenger Disaster Reminds Us Why Blacks Don't Belong in Space

The fate of the Space Shuttle Challenger is told in the massive fireball it ended up in and is a warning of the dangers of mixing rocket engineering with social engineering.

San Francisco, CA - On the 32nd anniversary of the Challenger disaster, NASA finally comes to terms with the high price for using its precious space shuttles for political agendas. On January 28, 1986, the NASA Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into flight, killing all seven crew members on board, including a schoolteacher and only the second black astronaut in history at that time, Ronald McNair. After the investigation, NASA concluded that an O-ring seal in the space shuttle's right solid rocket booster had failed at liftoff and that it was never designed to fly under extremely cold conditions. The morning of January 28 was particularly cold and the mission of the Challenger was politically significant, carrying not only a female schoolteacher, but the second black astronaut in U.S. history. But the Challenger mission was doomed from the start.

RELATED: NASA CUTS BLACK ASTRONAUT FROM SPACE MISSION FOR LACK OF SKILL

Challenger was originally set to launch from Cape Canaveral on January 22, 1986, but delays in the previous mission caused the launch date to be rolled back to January 23 and then January 24. But bad weather at the Transoceanic Abort Landing site in Dakar, Senegal, which is in west Africa, caused the launch to be pushed back again to January 25. Bad weather at Cape Canaveral on January 26 scotched the launch to January 27, but problems with an exterior access hatch and a stripped bolt on the Challenger pushed the launch to January 28. Forecasts for January 28 put temperatures at the usually balmy Kennedy Space Center at an unusually frigid 30 degrees Fahrenheit - the absolute minimum permitted for launch, with the Challenger never having been certified to launch at such low temperatures.

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pharah didnt want torb to repair her armor because it would look “messy/scrappy.” but brigitte was like torbs apprentice: she has a similiar messy building style (as evidenced by her grease stains and work station)

basically: “my armor can look dingy, as long as brigitte does it”