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South Tacoma Way, Tacoma. (c. 1907)

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Freight Train in rural Alberta

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blastedheath: Marina Kappos (American, b. 1972), 085, 2004. Acrylic on canvas, 168 x 137.2 cm.; blastedheath: Muirhead Bone (Scottish, 1876-1953), A Shipyard, 1917. Lithograph on paper, 47 x 36 cm.; Posted by cabinhome

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Street Scene, Fairbanks,  Boats are beached for the winter in the photograph. Houses and residences can be seen in the back. Date undated (probably 1920s) Subject Communities; Alaska; Cities & towns; Boats; Snow; Streets; Buildings; Homes; Houses; Dwellings; Type Photographs Coverage United States–Alaska–Fairbanks North Star Borough–Fairbanks Collection Source Clark County Historical Museum Photographs Object Identifier P15.49 Accession Number Acc. 451 Catalog Number Cat. 2406 Repository Clark County Historical Museum; http://www.cchmuseum.org Contributors Washington State University Vancouver Library;  http://library.vancouver.wsu.edu/

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'Maryborough lines  #71'

(17/03/14)

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On this date in 1859, a massive solar superstorm took place. It's sometimes called the "perfect space storm" or the Carrington Event, after British astronomer Richard Carrington. He reported witnessing a massive white-light solar flare: a bright spot suddenly appearing on the surface of the Sun. At the same time, the Sun produced a coronal mass ejection, or CME: a large eruption of magnetized plasma. CMEs usually take three to four days to reach Earth, but the magnetic burst from the superstorm of 1859 reached us in just under 18 hours. People were growing accustomed to rapid communication over the telegraph, which had been in use for 15 years. Within hours of the CME, telegraph wires began shorting out, starting fires and disrupting communication in North America and Europe. Compasses were useless because the Earth's magnetic field had gone haywire. The northern lights were seen as far south as Cuba and Hawaii, and the southern lights — aurora australis — were seen in Santiago, Chile. People in the northeastern United States could read the newspaper by the light of the aurora, and the Sun itself was twice as bright during the event. Subsequent solar storms have caused satellites, broadcast stations, and cell phones to malfunction; they've disrupted GPS systems on airplanes and have even knocked out entire power grids; in 1989, a storm much weaker than the superstorm of 1859 brought down the Hydro-Quebec power grid for more than nine hours. While scientists cannot predict the storms with any degree of confidence, some speculate that the Sun is expected to reach a period of peak activity in 2013, and the large flares often follow the peak periods. They're monitoring the Sun's activity closely, because with a little advance warning, power grids could be taken offline and satellites put in "sleep" mode for the duration of the storm, averting a global catastrophe from which it could take a decade and trillions of dollars to recover.

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2012/09/01

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Fall Out Boy 'Face The Bottom' black t-shirt (Small)

Fall Out Boy 'Face The Bottom' black t-shirt (Small) Fall Out Boy black t-shirt is printed with the artwork from 'Face The Bottom' with 'Transportation Routes and Telegraph Lines' printed on the front. Fall Out Boy is an American rock band from Wilmette, Illinois, that formed in 2001. Th band reached mainstream success with its major label debut, From Under the Cork Tree. Released in 2005, the album won several awards. In 2007 the band released Infinity on major chart success, reaching #1 on the Billboard 200 and selling 260,000 copies its first week. The lead single, "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race", reached #1 on the Pop 100 and #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. Celebrate the great music of Fall Out Boy, 'Face The Bottom', with this great shirt.