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NASA Crowdsources Historic Image Archive Data
Orbiter Atlantis (STS-110) Launch With New Block II Engines NASA just added hundreds of images to The Commons area on the photo sharing site Flickr, and is looking for a little crowd-sourcing help to add data to the images. Universe Today
UNIX history
Ken Thompson und Dennis Ritchie plaudern aus dem «Nähkästchen» …
Egyptian culture
Egyptian Lantern Slides — Places, Brooklyn Museum’s photostream, Flickr, public domain — from the pyramids of Gizah to the temple of Edfu. In 1849, the Philadelphia daguerreotypists William and Frederick Langenheim introduced the lantern slide: a transparent image on glass that could … Continue reading
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26c3: I, Internet
The actions of a highly-networked group of individuals cannot be explained as the sum of actions of individuals. Let’s explore how far we are along with evolving collective consciousnesses and what’s on their minds. With the Internet, the individual’s ability for … Continue reading
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impressions
Some impressions from a roman vicus in France. Click on the pictures for a slighty higher resolution. Enjoy :-)
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sun is shining
Two opposed cuts along a roman wall to get an impression of the basement — eight hours work at temperatures as high as 30°C. On the second picture you can see two correspondent walls — at first sight. But doing a cut … Continue reading
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ancient rubbish
Here you can see many huge and foremost complete roman bricks. Usually we get lots of fragments in construction waste pits — romans didn’t waste complete or reusable material. So maybe we see here the remains of a former portico, the … Continue reading
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Tagged adobe, archaeology, brick, excavation, history, humanities, roman
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ancient remains
What we see here are the remains of a roman latrine, the original wall of a roman basement, leftovers of a hypocaustum and last not least the hint of a wall together with some huge fragment of mortar. What you don’t see: lots of … Continue reading
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paw of a dog
There you can see the fragment of a roman brick, nothing special but usually we’re looking for some seal1. But in that case we’ve found the mark of a paw. Some dog couldn’t resist to walk over the recent brick about 100 A.D. … Continue reading
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addendum
Those are the missing picturs to raiders of the lost wall — click on the pictures for higher resolution. Enjoy :-)
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