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Ah, the things one could do with only limited technology and unlimited
imagination!

Step back in time 100 years......and enjoy.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/201...ntury_ago.html

~Pete

On Aug 25, 10:15*pm, Val Hallah <michaelnewp...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>
> thats quite an afro....

That's a hat, silly person.

~Pete

"Twibil" <> wrote in message
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> Ah, the things one could do with only limited technology and unlimited
> imagination!
>
> Step back in time 100 years......and enjoy.
>
> http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/201...ntury_ago.html
>
> ~Pete


Wow. Thanks for sharing

--
Peter

"bugbear" <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> wrote in message
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> Twibil wrote:
>> Ah, the things one could do with only limited technology and unlimited
>> imagination!
>>
>> Step back in time 100 years......and enjoy.
>>
>> http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/201...ntury_ago.html
>
> According to the wayback machine, the site
> http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/
> has been displaying these photos since 2001.
>


Still interesting, thanks to Twibil

--
Peter

"bugbear" <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> wrote in message
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> Peter wrote:
>> "bugbear" <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> wrote in message
>> news: o.uk...
>>> Twibil wrote:
>>>> Ah, the things one could do with only limited technology and unlimited
>>>> imagination!
>>>>
>>>> Step back in time 100 years......and enjoy.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/201...ntury_ago.html
>>>
>>> According to the wayback machine, the site
>>> http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/
>>> has been displaying these photos since 2001.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Still interesting, thanks to Twibil
>>
>
> Well, yeah, and Mozart is still tuneful.

Shortly after Mozart stopped composing he spent some time decomposing.
Now he's doing neither.


>
> But it ain't news.
>


If it's the first time I learn of it, to me it's news.


--
Peter

On Aug 26, 1:54*am, bugbear <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> wrote:
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> According to the wayback machine, the sitehttp://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/
> has been displaying these photos since 2001.

Uh, yes, and here's something even worse (claps hands to face in
horror!): the pics in question were most likely seen and enjoyed by
(gasp!) thousands of people even before they were available on line!
http://firstpersonsingular.org/wp-co...he-scream.jpeg

Free hint: The idea that anything older than 6 months automatically
lacks value is going to come as a shock to both the heirs of Ansel
Adams and the directors of museums everywhere. So will the twin
concepts that everyone must have already seen anything that's
available on the net, and that nothing is worth looking at twice.

(Me? Sarcastic? Yeah, right.)

On 8/26/10 PDT 5:17 AM, Peter wrote:
> "Twibil" <> wrote in message
> news:052b4f33-c58d-40a6-b552-...
>> Ah, the things one could do with only limited technology and unlimited
>> imagination!
>>
>> Step back in time 100 years......and enjoy.
>>
>> http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/201...ntury_ago.html
>
> Wow. Thanks for sharing
>
Indeed. Many.

One of them gives me new meaning to the term, "carrying the pigskin".....

GO NINERS!

--
john mcwilliams

Savageduck wrote:
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> >> On 2010-08-25 21:59:36 -0700, Twibil <> said:
> >>
> >>> Step back in time 100 years......and enjoy.
> >>>
> >>> http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/201...ntury_ago.html

<edited for brevity>

> The historic value is what is truly impressive. It also present many
> more questions. For example, image #8 Isfandiyar Jurji Bahaur, Khan
> of Khorezm (now Uzbekistan) was 39 in 1910 when the photograph was
> take, and he died in 1918. Now did he die as a result of the revolution,
> or the subsequent civil war, or did he just have a bad meal to die at
> 46-47? There is more to the story.
>
> I did some further research and found that there was a coalition of
> some of the Turkmen and Uzbek Khans to repulse the Bolsheviks. In 1918
> he appointed Djunaid Khan as his commanding general to an army of about
> 10,000. Isfandiyar Khan was then assassinated, and Djunaid helped
> Isfandiyar Khan's uncle, Said Abdulla Khan to ascend to the throne.
> The war continued until March of 1919 when they entered negotiations
> with the Bolsheviks. The negotiations fell apart in November 1919, and
> the fighting continued until the February 1920 abdication, and
> overthrow of the monarchy to form the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic.
>
> As I said interesting.


Even more intriguing, was the unauthorized use of U.S. troops, by
the British. The latter were quite desperate to keep Russia in the
war (as that country's vast throngs of illiterate peasants, were
the world's primary source of "cannon fodder"). Therefore, Britain
wanted to defeat the Bolsheviks and restore Czarist rule.

Those hapless American soldiers were pawns of evil machinations;
the self-serving plans of the British failed, at any rate.

--
Cordially,
John Turco <>

Marie's Musings <http://fairiesandtails.blogspot.com>