I’m no expert, but I’m pretty sure yesterday’s was a yellow lab, or possibly the unusual reddish yellow color they call a fox lab.
This one is a Weimeraner… sleeker, with a shorter silver grey coat, much longer ears and a thinner muzzle.
Labs are friendlier, goofier, family dogs. Weimeraners are, for want of a better word, much more intense. Stubborn. I’ve known two pretty well. You can’t distract them the way you can with a Lab.
My sister-in-law’s Weimer was the dog I’ve written about before who escaped one day and came home with a huge, half grilled steak in her teeth.
She also could not be trained (at least by them) to stop tearing up mail and magazines, if they left her alone, or to stop grabbing the end of the toilet paper and unrolling it through the house. They’d pick up anything paper and lock it in the bathroom, just to go to the grocery store, if she wasn’t coming.
And she was no puppy. She was still doing this stuff at 9 and 10 years old.
It’s actually a replica of an old sailing ship, powered by a modern diesel engine. There are two… They’re used for tourist cruises around the area, and also have restaurants on board that are popular places with tourists and locals for going out to dinner.
This is a barely used, genuine box of Crayolas from 1905,.
Until tonight, I had “known” that this box, or one very like it that appeared on a US postage stamp, was from the year they were first sold, in 1903.
Tonight, when verifying what I thought I knew, I found out that, yes, the first Crayolas were sold in 1903, and these were still the original colors in that box of 8. But the box itself was redesigned after Binney & Smith won a gold medal for their dustless chalk at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition, and put it on all their boxes, in 1905.
Even the postal service got that wrong! It says 1903 in the stamp description.
They didn’t invent wax crayons, but they made a good, consistent product, and popularized them. They actually made 30 colors, but selected these for their 5¢ box aimed at children. People liked the size and price of this assortment, and it wasn’t long before “Crayola” became used as a generic term for crayons, even from other manufacturers.
Fountain pens seem like ancient history now, but actually, they were required in my high school. Ball point pens were expensive and sometimes smeared… I know at least my English teacher, and maybe some others, required papers to be written with a fountain pen.
She wanted blue ink, but I liked black. We compromised on blue black. Then I started buying those inexpensive fountain pens with little plastic ink cartridges.
Being a teenager, the most dramatic era of one’s existence, I fell in with what we considered an artsy bunch (now I find the pretention amusing), and started affecting brown ink. You couldn’t buy it at the drug store, only the stationery store. Oh my.
By college, IIRC, the fountain pens were gone, and we all used newly inexpensive ball point pens. Sometimes, though, I still went to the art store and bought brown ones. Lol… there’s nothing like being 17.
This is an 1865 portrait photo of Frances Clalin Clayton, who disguised herself as a man and fought in the Union army, under the name Jack Williams, serving in the Missouri artillery and cavalry corps.
A mother of three, she enlisted along with her husband. He was killed in battle, in 1862, but sources differ as to whether she revealed herself then, or stayed in the army, as a man, until she was wounded in battle, discovered, and released from duty. I couldn’t find anything about her children.
Believe It or not, records show that hundreds of women disguised themselves as men to enlist during the Civil War… some to stay with their husbands, some to escape them… some out of patriotism, or wanting a soldier’s salary. I’m sure some because they just wanted to be men, but that wasn’t.much understood at the time..
Several sites labeled this “bathing beauties”, and one called it a 1924 beauty contest… but I think they’re just making assumptions.
I believe the two that seemed to know that these are dancers from the National American Ballet, posing outdoors for a publicity photo, in August of 1924.
Those are silk leotards… too thin to be bathing suits… and a scarf around the hips was considered artsy, not swimwear.
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Might this be the same young buck from yesterday?
I’m no expert, but I’m pretty sure yesterday’s was a yellow lab, or possibly the unusual reddish yellow color they call a fox lab.
This one is a Weimeraner… sleeker, with a shorter silver grey coat, much longer ears and a thinner muzzle.
Labs are friendlier, goofier, family dogs. Weimeraners are, for want of a better word, much more intense. Stubborn. I’ve known two pretty well. You can’t distract them the way you can with a Lab.
My sister-in-law’s Weimer was the dog I’ve written about before who escaped one day and came home with a huge, half grilled steak in her teeth.
She also could not be trained (at least by them) to stop tearing up mail and magazines, if they left her alone, or to stop grabbing the end of the toilet paper and unrolling it through the house. They’d pick up anything paper and lock it in the bathroom, just to go to the grocery store, if she wasn’t coming.
And she was no puppy. She was still doing this stuff at 9 and 10 years old.
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Looks like it could be London.
I just searched it to find out about the ship.
It’s actually a replica of an old sailing ship, powered by a modern diesel engine. There are two… They’re used for tourist cruises around the area, and also have restaurants on board that are popular places with tourists and locals for going out to dinner.
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“Good Friend” acrylic on canvas by British contemporary artist Romy Elliott (b 1990).
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This is a barely used, genuine box of Crayolas from 1905,.
Until tonight, I had “known” that this box, or one very like it that appeared on a US postage stamp, was from the year they were first sold, in 1903.
Tonight, when verifying what I thought I knew, I found out that, yes, the first Crayolas were sold in 1903, and these were still the original colors in that box of 8. But the box itself was redesigned after Binney & Smith won a gold medal for their dustless chalk at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition, and put it on all their boxes, in 1905.
Even the postal service got that wrong! It says 1903 in the stamp description.
They didn’t invent wax crayons, but they made a good, consistent product, and popularized them. They actually made 30 colors, but selected these for their 5¢ box aimed at children. People liked the size and price of this assortment, and it wasn’t long before “Crayola” became used as a generic term for crayons, even from other manufacturers.
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THIS GUY is stylin’!
He thinks he’s Elton John.
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OMG… I’d forgotten about ads for ink.
Fountain pens seem like ancient history now, but actually, they were required in my high school. Ball point pens were expensive and sometimes smeared… I know at least my English teacher, and maybe some others, required papers to be written with a fountain pen.
She wanted blue ink, but I liked black. We compromised on blue black. Then I started buying those inexpensive fountain pens with little plastic ink cartridges.
Being a teenager, the most dramatic era of one’s existence, I fell in with what we considered an artsy bunch (now I find the pretention amusing), and started affecting brown ink. You couldn’t buy it at the drug store, only the stationery store. Oh my.
By college, IIRC, the fountain pens were gone, and we all used newly inexpensive ball point pens. Sometimes, though, I still went to the art store and bought brown ones. Lol… there’s nothing like being 17.
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This is an 1865 portrait photo of Frances Clalin Clayton, who disguised herself as a man and fought in the Union army, under the name Jack Williams, serving in the Missouri artillery and cavalry corps.
A mother of three, she enlisted along with her husband. He was killed in battle, in 1862, but sources differ as to whether she revealed herself then, or stayed in the army, as a man, until she was wounded in battle, discovered, and released from duty. I couldn’t find anything about her children.
Believe It or not, records show that hundreds of women disguised themselves as men to enlist during the Civil War… some to stay with their husbands, some to escape them… some out of patriotism, or wanting a soldier’s salary. I’m sure some because they just wanted to be men, but that wasn’t.much understood at the time..
‘Monstrous Regiment’ by Terry Pratchett.
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My first thought was to wonder what we were supposed to find…
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Several sites labeled this “bathing beauties”, and one called it a 1924 beauty contest… but I think they’re just making assumptions.
I believe the two that seemed to know that these are dancers from the National American Ballet, posing outdoors for a publicity photo, in August of 1924.
Those are silk leotards… too thin to be bathing suits… and a scarf around the hips was considered artsy, not swimwear.
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Got him!
Me too.
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1978 … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naOzftxOKig&list=RDnaOzftxOKig&start_radio=1
I do a New York Times puzzle called Spelling Bee…
They have a forum with hints, that I never go to, but to get there, first you go to a page with a chart of letter counts that I sometimes visit.
Every day they post an amateur photo there of a bee, or bees, usually on flowers.
I thought Wednesday’s was particularly dramatic….
Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, Holywood, Los Angles, California, shortly after opening in 1927.
Northern Shoveler.