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Sandcrawler Toy Box

Posted on July 9, 2018 by James| Comments Off

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Anniversary of STS-135 launch

Posted on July 8, 2018 by James| Comments Off

Space shuttle Atlantis launches for the STS-135 mission to the International Space Station in the final mission of the Space Shuttle Program at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Liftoff was at 11:29 a.m. (EDT) on July 8, 2011. Astronauts Chris Ferguson, STS-135 commander; Doug Hurley, pilot; Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim, both mission specialists, were on board.

Posted in Because I Can, Patriotic, Planes Trains and Automobiles

Sneaky

Posted on July 7, 2018 by James| Comments Off

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Happy 4th of July!

Posted on July 4, 2018 by James| Comments Off

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Litter Box Cake

Posted on July 3, 2018 by James| Comments Off

Posted in Food

Anniversary of the Disappearance of Amelia Earhart

Posted on July 2, 2018 by James| Comments Off

Amelia Earhart (July 24, 1897 – 1937?)

Amelia Earhart Signature Amelia Mary Earhart (July 24, 1897 – disappeared 1937) was a noted American aviation pioneer and author.Earhart was the first woman to receive the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross,awarded for becoming the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. Earhart joined the faculty of the Purdue University aviation department in 1935 as a visiting faculty member to counsel women on careers and help inspire others with her love for aviation. She was also a member of the National Woman’s Party, and an early supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment.

During an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 in a Purdue-funded Lockheed Model 10 Electra, Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. Fascination with her life, career and disappearance continues to this day.

Wikipedia Link

Posted in On This Day, Planes Trains and Automobiles

Happy Birthday, Mr. “The King”

Posted on July 2, 2018 by James| Comments Off

Richard Petty

Richard Lee Petty (born July 2, 1937) is a former NASCAR driver who raced in the Strictly Stock/Grand National Era and the NASCAR Winston Cup Series. “The King”, as he is nicknamed, is most well-known for winning the NASCAR Championship seven times, winning a record 200 races during his career, winning the Daytona 500 a record seven times, and winning a record 27 races (ten of them consecutively) in the 1967 season alone. (A 1972 rule change eliminated races under 250 miles (400 km) in length, reducing the schedule to 30 (now 36) races.) Petty is widely considered one of the greatest NASCAR drivers of all time. He also collected a record number of poles (127) and over 700 top-ten finishes in his 1,185 starts, including 513 consecutive starts from 1971–1989.

Wikipedia Link

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Anniversary of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Posted on June 30, 2018 by James| Comments Off

Original Movie Poster (June 30, 1971)

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is a 1971 American musical fantasy film^[4] directed by Mel Stuart, and starring Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka. It is an adaptation of the 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl and tells the story of Charlie Bucket (Peter Ostrum, in his only film appearance) as he receives a Golden Ticket and visits Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory with four other children from around the world.

Filming took place in Munich in 1970, and the film was released by Paramount Pictures on June 30, 1971. With a budget of just $3 million, the film received positive reviews and performed well in 1971, earning about $4 million at the end of its original run. It then made an additional $21 million during its 1996 re-release.

The film has since developed a cult following especially due to its repeated television airings and home entertainment sales. In 1972, the film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score, and Wilder was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, but lost both to Fiddler on the Roof. In 2014, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.

Wikipedia Link

Posted in The Big Screen

Owl!

Posted on June 29, 2018 by James| Comments Off

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Chivalry isn’t dead…

Posted on June 28, 2018 by James| Comments Off

Posted in Because I Can

Stupid Autocorrect

Posted on June 27, 2018 by James| Comments Off

Posted in Humor

You can’t measure this level of cute!

Posted on June 26, 2018 by James| Comments Off

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Star Wars Sandcrawler Toy Box

Posted on June 25, 2018 by James| Comments Off

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Posted in Because I Can, Toys

Skrat

Posted on June 25, 2018 by James| Comments Off

Posted in Humor

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World trailer

Posted on June 24, 2018 by James| Comments Off

Posted in Because I Can, Literary, The Big Screen, The Little Screen (Television)

Lighting of the Sails at Vivid LIVE 2018

Posted on June 24, 2018 by James| Comments Off

Sydney’s annual Vivid festival fills the harbour with barges equipped with powerful projectors that use the buildings ringing the harbour (especially the iconic Sydney Opera House) as geometrically complex screens for projection-mapped lightshows, synchronised to music.

Here’s a video of this year’s gorgeous Sydney Opera House projections, created by Jonathan Zawada and titled “Metamathemagical.”

Website: (vividsydney.com)

Posted in Because I Can, Events

Predator riding an Alien

Posted on June 24, 2018 by James| Comments Off

A driver in Chumphon, Thailand captured great footage of a motorcyclist, dressed from head to toe like a deadly Yautja (Predator), cruising down the highway on their custom Alien themed chopper that looked like a golden Xenomorph.

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