Nah, in Virginia. Virginia has several independent cities. Confused the shit out of some of my out of state friends in college.
So close to making a "I bet he changed his name to 'John Smith' because he was tired of spelling 'Gaa-binagwiiyaas' out when making reservations!" before realized I was dangerously close to making kind of a racist dad joke. Also, there are like 12 items in his Wikipedia entry that are even crazier than his claim to living to the age of 129.
My great grandmother lived to be 106 years old and lived in a tiny ass town in Oklahoma called Colgate. She lived on a farm of about 140 acres and had cows and shit that she took care of well into her mid to late 90's. She was born in 1899 and died in 2005. She saw the world transform and lived through some of the darkest times our country has seen (outside of slavery of course). I wish I was a little older during her later years to be able to appreciate some of her stories more.
damn, literally lived through Oklahoma becoming a state (and old enough to remember) and made it to Y2K. That is INSANE
On the subject of NYC tearing down old buildings...this was the old Penn Station, built in 1910 and torn down in1963. Considered a travesty by many to tear it down
At least it's death was not in vain, at least according to wikipedia, as it led to the advent of modern historical preservation.
Sitting here looking through all of these (Time's 100 Most Influential Images of All Time) http://100photos.time.com/
Oldie but a goodie Earthrise William Anders, NASA 1968 It’s never easy to identify the moment a hinge turns in history. When it comes to humanity’s first true grasp of the beauty, fragility and loneliness of our world, however, we know the precise instant. It was on December 24, 1968, exactly 75 hours, 48 minutes and 41 seconds after the Apollo 8 spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral en route to becoming the first manned mission to orbit the moon. Astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders entered lunar orbit on Christmas Eve of what had been a bloody, war-torn year for America. At the beginning of the fourth of 10 orbits, their spacecraft was emerging from the far side of the moon when a view of the blue-white planet filled one of the hatch windows. “Oh, my God! Look at that picture over there! Here’s the Earth coming up. Wow, is that pretty!” Anders exclaimed. He snapped a picture—in black and white. Lovell scrambled to find a color canister. “Well, I think we missed it,” Anders said. Lovell looked through windows three and four. “Hey, I got it right here!” he exclaimed. A weightless Anders shot to where Lovell was floating and fired his Hasselblad. “You got it?” Lovell asked. “Yep,” Anders answered. The image—our first full-color view of our planet from off of it—helped to launch the environmental movement. And, just as important, it helped human beings recognize that in a cold and punishing cosmos, we’ve got it pretty good. :chills:
The pic that supposedly inspired the Jumpman logo, 1984. Nike has paid the photographer a grand total of $150
I just don’t get why he is such a cuck? It’s not like he could’ve made money of off the thing without Nike...but you are right about me being a cuck but I need the money and your mother works the corner pretty good so
Columbia SC was a planned city with the streets laid out in a regular grid of 100 blocks to a square mile. Speculators sold lots sight unseen to people who wanted to buy land in the new capital city. When some people came up to inspect the lots they bought, they found out they were in the river bc of surveying errors
At LBJ's presidential library they have this cool exhibit where you can pick up these phones and listen to various interesting recorded conversations LBJ had. One is with MLK who discusses his hopes for Johnson's willingness to take steps forward for civil rights. Really awesome to listen to.
hahahaha unfortunately left out. They do have a cool "game" of sorts where there is a giant touchscreen laid flat like a conference table with folders all over it you can touch to open and a phone. You get to be LBJ reacting to Gulf of Tonkin in real time and have to make a decision given the information he had (at least the info he had according to his own presidential library haha). Really cool experience
Strangely enough, I live in the little lake front city where LBJ spent a lot of time and have heard some stories from some of the old timers around here about him and his affinity for flopping out his namesake and showing off its size
As a transplant in NY I can attest that the public transportation is awesome but not without flaws. That said, there is no place in the US that can come close to what we have here and the people who really think it's bad just haven't lived elsewhere.