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Self-Reflection (In Geronimo's Eye)
.Geronimo -- detail showing photographer reflected in his eye. Photo shows the famous Apache warrior Geronimo, photographed during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1904. The...
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Vertiginous
.A (Los Angeles, California): photo bymichaelj1998, 7 April 2014A university physics student was confronted with the following challenge: "Describe how to determine the height of a skyscraper using a...
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Liberty, Unincorporated
.Scott's Run, West Virginia: Ben Shahn, 1937, tempera on cardboard, 56.5 x 70.8 cm (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York)Monongah Mine ExplosionI want to go up to Monongah where they had that big...
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Charlie Walsh: The Health Story
. Calendar for Abietine Medical Company: artist unknown, 1893 (California Business Ephemera Collection, California Historical Society)If you eat vitamins A, B, C, D, E, K and X ....................for...
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Order Out of Chaos
.Dictionary pigeonholes. Alphabetised quotation slips for the Oxford English Dictionary: photo by Owen Massey McKnight, 11 February 2000Â To help him in arranging the words and the quotation slips --...
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The Second Temple
.Page from Codex Borgia, pre-Columbian: author unknown, facsimile (British Museum)At a dark portal between cosmic realmsA wizard found himself stood up by the Morning Star --Evening his element as the...
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My Sort-of Vacation
. National Forest, Panguitch, Utah (Crown Graphic, Type 79, expired 03-2009): photo by moominsean, 11 October 2010Distant mountains. Near mountains. More mountains; bluish beauties never attainable,...
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A Little Mystery
.Warren Woods path, trees and scenery. A man, Professor Frank Johnson (FCM or other institution?) standing near a tree. Part of the Wildflower Preservation Society trip series: photographer unknown,...
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Go West, In That Case
.Notice on Mount Bundy Station prohibiting shooting beyond sign, Northern Territory: photographer unknown, 1945, in Survey into possibilities of pursuing buffaloes in North Australia for export to...
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A.J.M. Smith: The Archer
.Twin Arrows, Arizona: photo by Philippe Reichert, 26 June 2010Â Bend back thy bow, O Archer, till the string Is level with thine ear, thy body taut, Its nature art, thyself thy statue wrought Of marble...
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Strindberg's Celestographs: A Nonmechanical Cosmophotography
.Celestograph I (The Full Moon): photo by August Strindberg, 1893-94 (Manuscript collections, National Library of Sweden)“I have worked like a devil and have traced the movements of the moon and the...
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Thomas Neumann: Springtime in Berlin with Agfacolor Neu, 1937
.In the streets of Berlin (camera: Leica / film: Agfa Color Neu): photo by Thomas Neumann, 1937 (National Archives of Norway)Tyskland (Berlin) (camera: Leica / film: Agfa Color Neu): photo by Thomas...
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Robert Walser: Sentiment
.we used to have summers: photo by josefeggshunting, 17 April 2014Whatever it was in plain sightgave me fresh heart, if, nonethelessit could not, being nature, give me rest,soon it will be far away,...
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The First Hour
.Pronghorn doe with fawns about 1/2 hour old at Up & Down Ranch, 10 miles northwest of Ft. Davis, Texas: photo by Helmut Karl Buechner, 28 May 1947 (Smithsonian Institution Archives)Life, such a...
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The Terrible Embarrassment of the Goalkeeper on the Crown Princess's Birthday
.TheBelgian goalkeeperVan deWeijerisbeatenagain,Netherlands-Belgium(9-3), Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam: photographer unknown, 11 March 1934 (Nationaal Archief)Â Â Man cheering after the first goal,...
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Secrets of the Keeper
.Adrian Mutu rounds the keeper (Brad Friedel): Tom Clark, 2006 I Vladimir Nabokov: The Flapping of the Rooks Of the games I played at Cambridge, soccer has remained a wind-swept clearing in the middle...
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Look Out Any Window: Alfred Henry Rushbrook, the South Side of Edinburgh, 1929
.. Buccleuch Street no.125. Photograph of a four storey tenement in Buccleuch St. Ground floor with sign 'Wee Beer Shop' and 'D. Cuthbert' over door, woman and two children at door, two men at window....
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Desolate
.American Black Bear, Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago: photographer unknown, 1900 (The Field Museum Library)Â Unidentified monkey in cage, Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago: photographer unknown, 1900 (The Field...
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Ramshackle
. Untitled (Newark): photo by J Perez, 12 May 2013William Carlos Williams: Between Wallsthe back wingsof thehospital wherenothingwill grow liecindersin which shine the broken pieces of a greenbottle...
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Common Goals
.Street football, Havana: photo by AL/EX, 7 April 2007"The penalty kick I blocked is going down in the history of Leticia," a young Argentine wrote in a letter from Colombia. His name was Ernesto...
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