Cold Weather Grips Europe
A spell of freezing weather in Europe has caused more than 300 deaths, mostly in Poland and Ukraine, and caused disruptions through much of the continent.
I don’t care that it is cold. I want to be there.
Crossing the Pond by Nick DeWolf.
I just became aware of this project on Flickr when I saw a post on A Continuous Lean. Nick DeWolf carried a camera around with him everywhere during his lifetime (1928 - 2006) and took photos of nearly everything. His son-in-law Steve Lundeen is digitizing all of DeWolf’s work and posting it to Flickr. Currently there are over 50,000 images and counting.
Above is a photograph from May of 1959 on a flight from New York City to Copenhagen, Denmark.
Love.
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Spectacular Aurorae Erupt Over Norway
Over the weekend, the Earth’s magnetic field was struck by a coronal mass ejection (CME). The CME — a vast bubble of solar plasma that had erupted from the sun on Jan. 19 — took longer than expected to travel through interplanetary space, but on Sunday it made contact.
Want to go to Iceland to see this in 2013.
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N.C. Wyeth
A Young Maine Fisherman
1933
Oil on canvas
133 x 122 cm
Bank of America Merril Lynch Collection
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Newell Convers Wyeth, having spent summers with his family in Port Clyde, Maine for eighteen years, was well acquainted with the elements of the landscape and the people of Maine that make it unique. Wyeth also had a deep interest in American history, reading voraciously and collecting historical uniforms and costumes to use in his illustrations to ensure accurate details.
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Love Wyeth.
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Happy birthday, Muhammad Ali: As Muhammad Ali turns 70, it would be easy to say happy birthday and recite his accomplishments as a boxer and humanitarian. But in his heyday, Ali was complicated, columnist Bill Dwyre says.
Photo: Muhammad Ali blows out the candles on a cake baked for his 25th birthday in Houston on Jan. 17, 1967. The three-time heavyweight champion, who turns 70 Tuesday, is still a “big kid” who enjoys his birthday parties, his wife said. Credit: Ed Kolenovsky / Associated Press
The Greatest.
(Source: Los Angeles Times, via npr)
