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10/22/2023

1920's White Castle number 4, Wichita, Kansas

08/20/2023

07/23/2023

150 foot iceberg passes through Iceberg Alley near Ferryland, Newfoundland, Canada

07/22/2023

Happy 153rd birthday, Wichita! Here's what the Air Capital looked like back in 1870!

Did you know? Outlaw Billy the Kid's mother, Catherine McCarty, was one of 124 people to sign the petition to incorporate the town of Wichita. https://bit.ly/3OmWuPw

07/08/2023

This is the 11-mile long IMAX film print of Christopher Nolan’s ‘OPPENHEIMER’

It weighs about 600 lbs 😳

06/24/2023

Hong Kong in 1967 and now...

06/05/2023

Another shot from this afternoon’s storm.

06/01/2023

Main & Delaware St, Kansas City, MO (1906 vs. 2015)

05/02/2023

SEMINOLE INDIANS FIRE SHOTS AT GOODYEAR BLIMP IN 1929
As the Goodyear Blimp Defender was passing over the Everglades on its way to Opa locka in December of 1929, several bullets fired by Seminole Indians on the ground pierced its bag. Upon its arrival in Opa locka the bullet holes were repaired. Goodyear representatives decided to invite Seminole Chiefs who made their home in the Everglades for rides in the blimp so they would be acquainted with its operation. This Romer photo shows the Seminole Chiefs along with 130 members of their tribe who were spectators arriving for their ride at the Goodyear Blimp Defender December 26,1929. Also on hand for the occasion were the following Glenn H. Curtiss confidants: Harry Miller, Mayor of Country Club Estates(Miami Springs), Sayre Wheeler, Mayor of Opa locka who was to marry the widow of Glenn H. Curtiss within a year of Curtiss's death in 1930, and Andrew Heermance, former chief pilot for Glenn H. Curtiss and head of the Dade County Aviation Dept.

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05/02/2023

In James Cameron’s Titanic, the scene of a child and his father playing with a spinning top on the promenade deck is directly copied from this famous photograph.

Taken aboard the Titanic by Jesuit novice Francis Browne it shows six-year-old Robert Douglas Spedden watched by his father Frederic and is one of the most famous of the collection.

In April, 1912, the Frederic and Margaretta "Daisy" Spedden booked passage on the Titanic with their only child, Douglas. Also travelling were Daisy's maid, Helen Alice Wilson, and Douglas's former nursemaid Margaret Burns called "Muddie Boons" by the boy as he had difficulty pronouncing her name.

Frederic and his wife were awakened by the collision with the iceberg; they noticed that the ship was listing, so went to rouse the servants. Daisy woke Douglas telling the boy they were taking a "trip to see the stars." The Spedden party made their way to the starboard side of the boat deck where the women and children boarded lifeboat 3. After all the women and children had been loaded, Frederic, along with about 20 other men, were also permitted to enter the boat.

Douglas fell asleep and slept through the night. Waking at dawn and seeing icebergs he said "Oh, Muddie, look at the beautiful North Pole with no Santa Claus on it."

The entire party survived and were rescued by Carpathia where the Spedden family was remembered for numerous acts of kindness. Margaret Burns made use of her nursing skills tending to the injured and shocked passengers throughout the journey to New York.

One year after the disaster Daisy wrote and illustrated a storybook for her son called "My Story", which told the story of the trip, sinking, and rescue from the point of view of Douglas' teddy bear. The tale was inspired by the stuffed bear her son never left behind during the sinking and their subsequent rescue.

Daisy was also writing a series of diaries starring the little bear for Douglas, when he was older, to read and reminisce about all those moments he spent together with his parents.

She gave the storybook to Douglas as a gift on Christmas Day 1913. Two years later, one summer afternoon in 1915, Douglas was playing outside at the family summer retreat in Grindstone Neck, Winter Harbor, Maine.

Douglas chased into the street after his ball and was struck by a car and killed. He died two days later from the concussion he sustained. He was 9 years old. It was one of the first recorded automobile accidents in the state.

Both Frederic and Daisy mourned stoically, because they always had faith in Christian providence.

After her son's death Daisy stopped writing her diaries. They lived out the rest of their lives with close friends and family and continued to travel the world.

Frederick died on February 3, 1947 at the age of 80 due to a heart attack while poolside at the Bath Club in Palm Beach, Florida. Daisy passed away on February 11, 1950 at the age of 77.

05/02/2023

It has been suggested that if Titanic’s rudder had been larger she would have turned more quickly and thus missed the iceberg.

Titanic's rudder weighed 101 1/4 tons, and no steering arrangement involving manual power—regardless of how much leverage was in the system—would have sufficed to move it.

The Steering Gear Room was housed in the most aft location of C Deck, beneath the P**p Deck and just astern of the Third Class General and Smoke Room. It held the ships Servo Equipment, which consisted of: tiller, steering gear, rudder shaft, steering engines.

The steam valves of these engines were connected to the Main wheel in the Wheelhouse via hydraulics (Browns Patent Telemotor). Due to the Servo Equipment there was a 30 second delay after moving the wheel, and many claim this contributed to the collision with the iceberg.

The usual way of determining the proper size of a rudder is to compare the area of the rudder to the longitudinal area of the ship’s hull on the centerline, or LBP x Draft. The rudder area for fast ships should be 1/60th of hull area, and 1/70th for slow ships.Titanic’s LBP was 850 feet and her full load mean draft was 34.5 feet, so her longitudinal area on the centerline was 29,325ft squared.

Travelling at about 22 knots and seeing the iceberg at only about 500 yards, Titanic had no more than 30 seconds to avoid the ice. During this time she managed to turn two points to port before swinging her bow to starboard, successfully clearing her stern away from the iceberg.Important to note is that Titanic had exactly the same size rudder as Olympic had throughout her career, and Olympic’s wartime captain described her as the most maneuverable and responsive ship he had ever had the pleasure to command.

The very efficient steering of Olympic-class liners was due to the advantage that their central propellers were directly ahead of the rudder, which therefore increased the rudder’s effectiveness due to the increased slipstream produced by the central propeller—a feature lacking in Cunard’s quadruple-screw Mauretania and Lusitania.

Olympic’s captain was even able to suddenly and deliberately steer into a German submarine, ramming and sinking it thereby giving Olympic the distinction of being the only merchant ship to sink an enemy vessel during the First World War. Titanic’s rudder was in fact 2% too small, but all evidence suggests she turned very well.

Not much is left of this room in the wreck, since the storage rooms beneath it were filled with air when the ship dragged down. The pressure caused the rooms to implode and collapse, destroying the equipment. It is said that the storage rooms filled with water and the pressure forced upward, causing a high pressure jet of water to peel the decking back.

Here, the rudder and starboard shaft of Titanic. Note the braces on the rudder to keep it at 0º during launch.

04/26/2023

04/12/2023

Imagine Las Vegas pool season... while watching atomic bombs detonate at the nearby Nevada Test Site.

Pictured here are guests at the Last Frontier pool watching a mushroom cloud rise from the Simon Test, part of Operation Upshot-Knothole conducted in April 1953.

📸: LVCVA News Bureau

03/26/2023

Breathtaking! Check out this photo of the Northern Lights near Herndon, Kansas Thursday night.

📸 High Resolution Photography

02/10/2023

02/08/2023

The oldest known photograph, ‘View from the Window at Le Gras’ taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826 using a process called heliography (a process that he invented) which would have taken between 8 hours and several days of exposure to capture the image. Credit: color_byangelina on Instagram

Learn more about the oldest photograph in history: https://bit.ly/3wUTy3c

02/02/2023

One of the best rocket photos I've ever seen! 🫣

United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket thunders off the pad with USSF-12 , July, 2022. A John Kraus photo.

Credits: John Kraus Photos

01/25/2023

Emmett Till would be 80. Ruby Bridges is just 67. Tweet via

01/18/2023

Richard Lasher, a Boeing employee at the Frederickson Plant, was on his way to ride his dirt bike around Spirit Lake when the mountain erupted in front of him. Original image taken May 18, 1980. (Washington State Archives)

12/23/2022

12/20/2022

12/20/2022

My power’s really low, so this may be the last image I can send. Don’t worry about me though: my time here has been both productive and serene. If I can keep talking to my mission team, I will – but I’ll be signing off here soon. Thanks for staying with me.

go.nasa.gov/3Mi4pKw

12/04/2022

21189 Curtis Ave., Winfield, KS 67156 See 1 Photos, description and maps; Bedrooms: 4; Square Feet: 2434; Price: $190,000; MLS ID: 617957

11/10/2022