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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Abraham Lincoln

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Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
David T. Wolf

Fun Facts to Know and Share

"The difference between the 787 and its predecessors can be illustrated by a simple observation: There are only 10,000 drilled holes in the entire aircraft, compared with one million in a Boeing 747."

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I'm a big woman. I need big hair.
Aretha Franklin

Happy Birthday

Photo by Don Hunstein - New York City, 1961

Happy 68th birthday Aretha Franklin.  Yes, that means she's only 18 in the photo above.

WW2

Counter-attack, Russia 1941.  Unless he lost a limb, its unlikely that this non-com could have possibly survived the war.

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"That's impossible. You can't go faster than the speed of light."
"Of course not. That's why scientists increased the speed of light in 2208."
Futurama

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Cathedral of St. Nicholas, Mozhaisk, 1911
Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii

This is the eternal Russia.