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Excellent photos.

There are many such to be found at Retronaut (warning - black hole of time alert on this site)

http://www.retronaut.com/
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What's a "black hole of time"?
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grammafreddy wrote:What's a "black hole of time"?


That is when you click on a site, and then suddenly it is the wee hours of the morning :/
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Does that mean its like eating peanuts?
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yup. I have lost hours upon hours to that site . . . stuff from the 1500's through to last century . . . all so interesting!
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Yeah, same with Wikipedia.

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Did you know that Abraham's Lincoln's assassination was only 1 generation ago? ie. My mother who is alive and well in her 60s today tells me that she remembers her great grandma telling her of seeing Abraham Lincoln's funeral procession through her town as a young girl.
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It's been 148 years, 4 months, 12 days since it happened it is very possible.
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Ashcroft in 1913...

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CONSTABLE BOB PYPER,AND DUKE....IN FRONT OF SODA CREEK JAIL...1890
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