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Keith Seymore 07-14-2018 12:29 AM

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Anyone know where this PR photo was taken?

Of course: Detroit's Belle Isle Park, near the Conservatory.

K

https://www.belleisleconservancy.org...b-conservatory

https://www.belleisleconservancy.org...e-park-history

https://www.belleisleconservancy.org...rk-attractions

https://www.belleisleconservancy.org/map-and-access

Lee Stewart 07-14-2018 01:53 AM

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At it's peak in 2004, Blockbuster Video had more than 4,500 stores in the US. Now there is just one . . . . located in Bend, Oregon (shown).

Lee Stewart 07-14-2018 02:02 AM

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2005 Dodge Ram SRT-10 Yellow Fever Edition (1 of 500)

https://www.mecum.com/lots/CA0818-33...fever-edition/

Lee Stewart 07-14-2018 02:13 AM

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Santa Pod is the venue in which the current world drag racing record, a time of 3.58 seconds at 386.26 mph (621.61 km/h) was set by Sammy Miller in his Vanishing Point rocket-propelled funny car in July 1984.

As impressive as that is, it is not the fastest 1/4 mile time set. That record belongs to Kitty O'Neil.

In 1977 in the Mojave Desert, Kitty O'Neil piloted a hydrogen peroxide powered rocket dragster built by Ky Michaelson to the quickest quarter mile elapsed time in auto history, with a timed run of 3.22 seconds at 396 mph (637 km/h) with an average speed of 279.5 mph (449.8 km/h). This was in the desert not on a track.

marxjunk 07-14-2018 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Lee Stewart (Post 1407980)
At it's peak in 2004, Blockbuster Video had more than 4,500 stores in the US. Now there is just one . . . . located in Bend, Oregon (shown).

was on the news last night it is closing...so they are no more...

Lee Stewart 07-14-2018 09:57 PM

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Lee Stewart 07-16-2018 05:03 AM

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Lee Stewart 07-16-2018 05:07 AM

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Positano Beach, Italy

Lee Stewart 07-16-2018 05:29 AM

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If you remember a ways back I had stated that scorpions were older than sharks by about 10 million years (430M vs 420M). The horseshoe crab is even older: 450 million years.

Though they are called "crabs" they are not crustaceans. They are arthropods and have more in common with spiders than they do with crabs.

Lee Stewart 07-16-2018 05:38 AM

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Fireflies are not flies. They are beetles. Their produced "cold light" is unique as it has no infrared or ultraviolet frequencies


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