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Here's an article about Val from the Philadelphia Inquierer, Nov. 5, 2003
Hiking: Memories of flipping thru vinyl. I still have my turntable from back
in the day too. Along with several albums that bring back fond memories.
Molly: "Now that's a collection of 45's!"
Steve: "This collection is massive. I miss the big record stores. J&R Music (NY),
Tower Records, HMV. I love the smell of vinyl in the morning. It smells like ... MUSIC.
Doc: "I remember my time spent at Licorice Pizza in So. California and Sunrise Records
in Santa Rosa. I managed one for a short while when I was in high school called Sneaky's
Records. Lot of good memories spending inordinate amounts of time flipping through records."
Steve: "To all the 'Record-flippers' of the world. Let our voices be loud and clear. Demand
the return of our record stores. The excitement of flipping through vinyl and discovering a
classic you somehow managed not to have in your collection. You get home, remove the
plastic around the cover, remove the album from the dust jacket and place it on the
turntable. The needle slowly descends onto the vinyl and sweet sounds surround you."
Doc: "Yeah, I remember the feeling well ...good times."
#CL201
Mount Roraima is a massive, flat-topped table mountain [tepui] rising 2,810 meters
[9,219 feet] at the tripoint of Venezuela, Brazil, and Guyana. It is famous for its
otherworldly rock formations, carnivorous plants, and endemic wildlife, inspiring the
setting for Arthur Conan Doyle's novel "The Lost World". Wiki Page
Fre: "This is interesting and simply breath taking! Flat- topped mtns can be mind
boggling if you think too much, like me, because you expect an apex. I drove across
and stayed on Black Mesa, CO for a week. It was covered with beautiful green pines
and fields of wild flowers that went on forever. The altitude is only 5,500 ft
but when you sit on the edge of it the view reminds you that you are on top of a mtn."
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Just thought this was a cool shot of San Francisco.
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Extensive article with lots of photos at Italy Notes
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This is the Goupitan Shiplift in Guizhou Province in China and the largest ship lift in the
world. It's a series of 3 lifts that can carry ships weighing 500 tons to a height of 653 feet.
Wiki Page / New China TV Video
Bluz: "This is cool. Lots of high Hp motors coupled in series with
heavy torque for 500 tons. I bet hydraulics plays into it, too."
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This is Japanese solar observer Hisako Koyama (1916-1997) working with a telescope in 1951.
Koyama was a solar scientist who recorded sunspots for over four decades. Her detailed
drawings, numbering over 10,000, helped scientists reconstruct a continuous sunspot
record dating back to 1610. Wiki Page
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Doc: "Yep, this is exactly the environment I grew up in ...including the
glossy waxed floor. Even had the square, white, speckle top
kitchen table with the metal band running around the edge."
Ever: "LOL....my parents waxed everything. Varnished the basement stairs
after a renovation. I slipped all the way down those stairs ....twice. Sober, too."
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You're looking for Lysebotn? No problem. Just go down that road there ...you can't miss it.
Excellent pics at Fjord Norway
Sunny: "And I thought Highway 1 in Northern California 'aka Dramamine Drive' was bad!"
Doc: "Totally agree. Being as I live in the area, I've driven Hwy 1 along the
entire coast of California a few times. Beautiful drive but one mistake...."
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Sprites are upper atmospheric lightning. They aren't that rare in and of
themselves but photographing one is extremely difficult. In fact, July 4, 1989
marks the first time a successful photograph was ever made of one.
This one, known as the Jellyfish Sprite, was photographed by Stephen Hummel
over Texas at around 1:30 a.m. Central Time on July 2, 2020. Stephen Hummel,
is the dark sky specialist at the McDonald Observatory, atop Mount Locke in
West Texas. He says that this is the biggest he's ever seen measuring
appox 50 sq KM [little over 19 sq miles].
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This is Seongsan Ilchulbong, also known as "Sunrise Peak," a prominent volcanic cone on
the eastern coast of Jeju Island, South Korea. Called the Sunrise Peak as it's the first
location in South Korea to see the rising sun. Wiki Page.
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Doc: "I can certainly attest to that. I have a much stronger emotional response to music
then I do to anything else. It's been known to make me euphoric or brings me to tears."
Molly: "So have I and get emotional, i feel the
music coming out of my pores. Sounds silly, but true!"
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Brayden: "Awwwwwwwwwww. 'Metallica Babies!' "
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This wonder of engineering is called the Ronquieres Inclined Plane on the Brussels-Charleroi
Canal in Belgium. Opened in 1968 to replace 14 locks that were necessary to transport
boats and ships through a major drop in topography. The plane is 1,432 metres [4,698 ft]
in length and travels a vertical distance of 67.73 metres [222.2 ft].
It can carry 1,350 tonnes of boats / ships at one time. Wiki Page
Res: "That is amazing. The people who think this stuff up are amazing."
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Molly: "I don't think that would work in the U. S. but it's a cool idea."
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This is not that unusual in Columbia. If you've seen 'Narcos' on Netflix, the first two
seasons were about Pablo Escobar who was making so much money, his
organization was burying it all over the country. Most of these dump sites were
forgotten as the money was becoming basically meaningless and they
didn't bother to keep track. This was most likely one of those dump sites.
There's a great scene in the series where the Escobar family has to flee to another
one of their houses in the mountains. There's no electricty or firewood and it's very
cold. So, Pablo pulls a panel off a wall and inside, from floor to ceiling, are
bundles of cash. He just starts burning the cash in the fireplace to keep them warm.
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