Strange Stuff
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So, you're saying your neighborhood has all these pointy-topped buildings as well?
I was thinking more like how narrow some of those houses are. Some about three rows in are a door and then a window wide.
Roman bath...2000 years old.
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That’s a damn fine 2000 year old photo...hardly any color fade at all. I am surprised though, as history books tell us the Romans bathed nude and wore toga’s.
Personally, I was a little surprised that the water hadn't evaporated by now.
Didn't you mean to say "picturae tabernam"?
Nothing makes me smile as consistently as remembering the story of Hitchbot, the hitchhiking robot. It made it all the way
across Canada and tried to do the same across in the USA, only to be stripped and decapitated in Philadelphia.
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across Canada and tried to do the same across in the USA, only to be stripped and decapitated in Philadelphia.
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He's not the first to be stripped and decapitated in Phillie and won't be the last...Nothing makes me smile as consistently as remembering the story of Hitchbot, the hitchhiking robot. It made it all the way
across Canada and tried to do the same across in the USA, only to be stripped and decapitated in Philadelphia.
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Now available at your local liquor store, Tennessee's finest sippin' whiskey, "Master Luke"...
I don't even know where to start with this one...
The little train that couldn't.
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Wow. Surreal.
I wonder what the story behind it is. Probably a breakdown, and abandoned.
Maybe at midnight a ghost train races through, whistle blowing.
I wonder what the story behind it is. Probably a breakdown, and abandoned.
Maybe at midnight a ghost train races through, whistle blowing.
Sorry to say there was no text with the photo.
Excellent FGM research challenge.
Is that a Russian star on the front?
Excellent FGM research challenge.
Is that a Russian star on the front?
Ha! One search effort and I did learn the abandoned train is in the Ural Region, Russia.
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Just a couple of miles from where I live.......Swinbrook church........
The Church of England parish church of Saint Mary the Virgin dates from about 1200.[2] Its unusual open-sided bell-tower was added in 1822.[2] The church is noted for its 17th-century Fettiplace monuments.[3]
David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale had Swinbrook House built 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of the village.[4] Four of his six daughters (the "Mitford sisters") are buried in the parish churchyard: Nancy, Unity, and Diana are buried side by side, while Pamela is buried northwest of the tower.[5] There is a tablet in the church commemorating their only brother, Tom, killed in March 1945 in Burma.
St Mary's also has a monument to the officers and men of the Royal Navy submarine HMS P514, and especially its commander, Lieutenant W.A. Phillimore, whose parents lived at Swinbrook. In 1942 P514 failed to identify herself to the Royal Canadian Navy minesweeper HMCS Georgian. The Canadian ship therefore assumed the submarine to be an enemy vessel and rammed P514, sinking her with the loss of all hands.
Swinbrook Cricket Club has two teams. They play in division 5 and 10 respectively of the Oxfordshire Cricket Association.
The photos I took on the day are here.......
Swinbrook church - Steve1962
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The church also has a stained glass window remade in WW2 when the original was blown out by a german bomb that landed close by - the vicar collected up the fragments and had a new one made which depicts a WW2 bomber.
Steve
Not that strange, but just amazing and bad ass..