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Pancake and Pizza Breakfast
.Tommy Bartlett's Pancake and Pizza Restaurant, Lake Delton, Wisconsin. Photographer's general caption: "Near the town of Wisconsin Dells the Wisconsin River channels through deep, soft sandstone...
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Grey Wolf Reappears
.White female wolf in the Atigun Valley, Alaska. This wolf dens in the riverbank of the Atigun inside the main valley about five miles south of Galbraith Camp. She roams at least twenty miles a day in...
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Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore: Of My Mother, 92, with Alzheimer's
.Bay Bridge Hills [Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge, see from near old Hills Brothers Coffee Factory on the Embarcadero]: photo by K Hardy, 14 June 2007I hate to think she may no longer dream of me.She...
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A Door in the Wall
.Along I-80 outside Reno, Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, Washoe, Nevada: photo byJonas Dovydenas (1939-) for the Environmental Protection Agency Project DOCUMERICA, June 1973 (US National...
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After the Flood
.Lake Lyndon Johnson, Travis County, Texas: photo by Bill Reaves (1934-) for the Environmental Protection Agency Project Documerica, May 1972 (US National Archives)Into ripples fanningcircles in the...
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Charles O'Rear: Land of Dust and Plenty
. Sunset over fertilizer plant near El Centro in the Imperial ValleyImperial County has ten unincorporated towns the size of Seeley and its sister community Heber, and 59 other smaller “colonias” or...
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Huuklye 'n Cinquor: L7th Heaven: Circling the Square, or, A Self-Referential...
.L7 105 mm tank gun, cut model. On display at the Deutsches Panzermuseum, Munster: photo by baku13, 7 August 2005 To start with, to defend thispoem from its own attack, in my shot inthe departmental...
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Edwin Markham: In Death Valley
.Mesquite dunes, seen from Mosaic Canyon, Death Valley: photo by Jody Miller, 22 April 2014 There came gray stretches of volcanic plains, Bare, lone and treeless, then a bleak lone hill Like to the...
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Walter Benjamin: The Destructive Character
.Demolition, Deaconess Hospital, Oakland Avenue, Dogtown (St. Louis) ('...the feeling of the familiar moving rapidly into the past, which is certainly the case with this hospital which has stood in my...
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Chaste
.Exhibition "Purity", Malmo. Photographer David Magnusson's portraits offer a nuanced look at the Purity Ball phenomenon in the United States. During a Purity Ball young girls promise to "live pure...
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They dropped like Flakes -- They dropped like Stars --
.Flag Store, Lowell, Massachusetts: photo by Jim Rohan, 14 May 2014They dropped like Flakes —They dropped like Stars —Like Petals from a Rose —When suddenly across the JuneA wind with fingers — goes...
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The 49th Law of Power: A Dystopian Reality Event Game
.Police investigate a scene after a series of shootings in Isla Vista, California: photo by Associated Press / KEYT-TV / Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2014A Killer Story: An Interview with Suzanne Collins,...
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Robert Creeley: America
.porchflag (Des Moines, Iowa): photo by greg (It'sGreg), 6 April 2014America, you ode for reality! Give back the people you took.Let the sun shine againon the four corners of the worldyou thought of...
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A Day in the Sun
.Umbrella (Alameda, California): photo by efo, 6 April 2014A day in the sun under a parasol of protective nostalgia Would be pleasant, were it not for what actually happenedOn any given...
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Taking the El to Work
.58th on the South Side 'L'. A moment of everyday life out in front of an 'L' station. 58th, a former station on the South Side Main Line (just three blocks south of Garfield on today's Green Line),...
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Walter Benjamin: Theological-Political Fragment (the rhythm of messianic...
.Skeleton (female), Leinster Medical School, Dublin(photographer at left?): photo by John Joseph Clarke, c. 1897-1904 (Clarke Collection, National Library of Ireland)Only the Messiah himself completes...
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The Death of Pliny the Elder
.The Eruption of Vesuvius, 24 August A.D. 79[showing the death of Pliny the Elder on the shore at Stabiae]: Pierre Henri de Valenciennes (1750–1819), 1813, oil on canvas, 147.5 x 195.5 cm; image by...
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John Clare: House or Window Flies
.Morning mist at Fen Drayton, Cambridgeshire: photo by hspall, 24 March 2012These little indoor dwellers, in cottages and halls, were always entertaining to me; after dancing in the window all day from...
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School's Out -- A Hundred Years Ago
. Public Schools Athletic League: photographer unknown for Bain News Service, 23 May 1912 (George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress)I went to School But was not wiser Globe did not teach...
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Joseph Ceravolo: What chemicals have we forgotten?
. Permanently Closed Container (Treasure Island) (panorama): photo by efo, 14 November 2010The morning is warm. A fan whirlingthe air. The calm force of tirednessshows up in everyone's bodychewing,...
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