"SOME THINGS THAT ARE OLD"..("MICLEE"S 21st CENTURY")

Some Things.......................... In This World................... Are So Old .............................."When We Were Kids?"........................................ (You Can Something In................If You Care To.................. From Here).

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"Over 100 Years Later"

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"1908 Harley Davidson Motorcycle...Model 4"......"Theyve Come A Long Way Since Then"

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"And Its Still A Touchy... Delicate ...Truce Today"

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"This Is "Johnathan The Tortoise"......He Was In His 40s In 1900...When The Left Picture Was Taken"
"Johnathan Is Now Over 142 Years Old"..........(Way To Go Johnathan!!)

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"Back In 1918?"..."They Believed That Gargling With Mouth Wash Would Prevent.... Or Get Rid Of The Flu Pandemic..."That Hit New York City And Killed Over 33,000.........And Worldwide?...50 To 100 Million Deaths"
"It Was Believed To Have Been Brought To The USA.... By Soldiers Returning From World War One"

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"I Wonder If Gargling Helped Out At All?"

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"And Then?"......Thursday...October 24th... 1929............... Arrived"

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"Back Then... If You Were A Kid?"...."You Could Always Find A Job"

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"You Could Be A "Knocker Upper".."A Human Alarm Clock"
"Banging On Windows To Wake Up People"

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"Or...An "Ice Cutter"....(Sometimes It Was A Dangerous Job)

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"This Job Was "...."A Pre Radar Listener...For Enemy Aircraft...That Could Be On Their Way"

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The "Lamp Lighter?"...."Is Not Needed Anymore Now"

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"And Lets Not Forget The "Switchboard Operators"...................................("Number Please")

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"The ..."Elevator Operator".... Is A Job That Used To Be"..."Why It Ever Was?...I Couldnt Tell You"
"I Guess That The Humans Back Then Were Not Capable Of Pressing A Button"

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"The Old Job..."The Factory Lecter"......."Was To Read Stories... Or Report The News...(Usually Left Wing Babble)... While The Others Rolled Cigars In Cuba"

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"You Can Just About See Him"

"On The Right Above The Workers".....................detective
"They Also Employed "Lecters" In The USA For A Time"

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"In The 1800s?"...Some People Had Jobs That Consisted Of Robbing Bodies From The Cemeteries"
"For The Universities For Learning Purposes"....(I Wonder How Much They Got Paid

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"Way Back.....When A Prince Needed To Be Punished For Evilness?....."The One That Got The Punishment Was The "Whipping Boy"....Because No One Could Strike The Prince..."That Was A Job That No One Really Wanted" ...(I Wonder What The "Whipping Boys" Wages Were?)

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"On April 12 1912"

"The Titanic Hit An Iceberg".."Not The Kind You Could See"....(Sort Of Like Black Ice)

"This Iceberg Could Not Be Seen Until It Was Too Late"

"If The Captain Would Have Just Hit It Straight On?"

"The Titanic Never Would Have Sunk"...............................detective
"And Yes....It Is True....These Musicians Kept Playing As The Titanic Was Sinking..... To Try And Keep The Passengers Calm....."They All Went Down And Died........ Playing The Song"..."La Marche De Paris"

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1)...."The Titanic Was Just About 1500 Miles Out On Its Maiden Voyage"

"When It Hit The Iceberg That Doomed Them"


2)..."The Iceberg That Did In The Titanic?"

"Was 1500 Miles From Where It Broke Off The Glacier In Greenland"


3)..."And 1,502 Passengers Died From These Results".............detective
"Melvina Dean...Was Just 2 Months Old When She Was Rescued From The Titanic"
"She Was The Last Survivor Of This Disaster...................And Died In 2009"

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"Four Very Well Known And Famous People"

"Bought Tickets For The Titanics Maiden Voyage"

"But Decided Not To Go Along For The Ride"....(Maybe They Had That Gut Feeling)

"They Were"

1).."J.P. Morgan"

2)..."Alfred Vanderbilt"

3)..."Guglielmo Marconi"...(Inventor of The Radio Telegraph)...(And)

4)...Milton S Hershey"...(Founder Of Hersheys Chocolate).........................detective
On This Day...April 10 1963...The USS Nuclear Submarine"
"The Thresher...With A Crew Of 129...Was Doing Testing Maneuvers"
"200 Miles Off The Coast Of Boston Masssachusetts"

"There Was A Ship Above Them.."The Skylark"...For Communication Purposes"
"They Performed Their First Test That Day... (Half Way Down)... And Were Successful"

"But...On Their Second Dive?...They Went Deeper"
"Pausing Every 100 Feet To Check Things Out"
"Soon?"...Communication Was Becoming Garbled"
"And Eventually?"..."All Communication Was Lost"

"It Was At That Moment...After Repeated Tries To Contact The Thresher?"
"That They Finally Realized That The Thresher Had Sunk.... And Was Gone"............detective
"The USS Thresher"

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"A Mile And A Half Down?"...."This Is What Was Left After The USS Thresher Imploded"

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"A Similar Situation Happened In The Year 2,000"

"The Russian Submarine...."The Kursk?"

" Sank In The "Barents Sea".......... "And Took With Her"

"Over 100 Russian Crew Members"..................detective
"The Fossil Of A Whale"

"With Four Legs...Webbed Feet...And Hooves?"

"Has Been Found In... "Marine Sediments"... In Peru"

"Over A Half Mile From The Countries Coastline"


"It Had A Tail The Same As An Aligator Or Crocodile..... And Could Walk On Land"


"Over Millions of Years They Went From Being... Small Hoofed Mammals"

"To The Whales We See Today"


"They Have Given It The Name"..."Peregocetus Pacificus"...."Which Means?"

("The Traveling Whale That Reached The Pacific")......................detective
"Since November 29 1975"

"The Ship...The Edmund Fitzgerald"

"Has Been Lying At The Bottom Of Lake Superior"


"When It Was Finally Found?..."This Is What They Saw"


"They Saw The Ship At The Bottom.....And Lying Next To It?"

"Was The Body Of One Crew Member Lying Face Down On The Lakes Floor"


"It Just Doesnt Seem Right To Just Leave Him There Like That"

(Or Is It..In Sailors Terms..."That Thats His Final Resting Place?".....................detective
"This?"..."Is The Earliest Documented Survivng Picture Ever Taken"..."IT Was Taken In Either 1826 Or 1827"
"Its Title Is"..."View From The Window In La Gras"

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"The Boulevard du Temple"...1838"..Is Regarded As The First Picture Taken To Include People In It"
"Taken And Made By".............. "Louis Daguerre"

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"John Quincy Adams"..."6th President Of The United States".(."Son of The Second President").....Was The First President"......"To Ever Have His Picture Taken"

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"First"....."Selfie Picture"... "Ever Taken.... Was By... "Joseph Byron"..."In 1909"

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"A Selfie"..."With His Friends"..."1909"

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Maybe it's a 'Friendsie'!?

Good pictures, some of them show up huge and my screen isn't big enough! laugh
"Its Probably Your Screen Miss Fiorenza"

"Because Sometimes Ill Put Up A Picture"

"And Its Way To Big...... And I Have to Take It Down"....................detective
"One Of The Earliest Maps Made By Those Exploring The Continet Of"..."Africa"

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Others Say It Was Named After A....... "Richard Amerike"..."An Anglo Welsh Merchant"

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