For Mark
Yes I’m still alive on this blog - just haven’t visited Tumblr in quite a long time….
Are you happy now, Mr. Apple God??? :-D

0658 RECOVERED 2 HELOS. ASTRONAUTS, N.A. ARMSTRONG, LCOL M. COLLINS USAF, AND COL E.E. ALDRIN JR USAF
Deck Log of the USS Hornet, 07/24/1969
Documenting in rather matter-of-fact terms both the arrival of the President of the United States and successful recovery of the Apollo 11 astronauts.
U. S. Navy Report of the Search for Amelia Earhart, July 2-18, 1937
Excerpted pages detailing the efforts of the aircraft carrier USS Lexington in the search for pioneering aviatrix Amelia Earhart, who went missing 75 years ago today, on July 2, 1937.

Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images
Painter Lisa Burton poses with the latest waxwork of Queen Elizabeth II at Madame Tussauds. This is Madame Tussauds’ 22nd model of Her Majesty - see how she’s changed through the years in our gallery
![wow - this is pretty crazy…
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Los Angeles Police Department officials described the shooting death of a 19-year-old man [Abdul Arian] after a bizarre high-speed chase on the 101 Freeway “tragic” but defended the officers’ actions.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m42fhrXXkf1qa0uujo1_500.png)
wow - this is pretty crazy…
Los Angeles Police Department officials described the shooting death of a 19-year-old man [Abdul Arian] after a bizarre high-speed chase on the 101 Freeway “tragic” but defended the officers’ actions.

Image description: In 1817, Karl Drais, a young inventor in Baden, Germany, designed and built a two-wheeled, wooden vehicle that was straddled and propelled by walking swiftly. Drais called it the laufmaschine or “running machine.”
By 1818, the draisine craze reached the United States, but the high cost of the vehicle, combined with its lack of practical value, made it little more than an expensive toy. The two-wheeled vehicle would not become sustained until pedals were added in the late 1800s.
Photo from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History






