Monday, March 30, 2009

Goofy Easter Bunny and Easter Toys

Goofy Easter Bunny and Easter ToysGoofy Easter Bunny and Easter Toys. A window full of Easter Decorations on New York City's upper eastside at 72d and Third avenue. March 24, 2008.
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Saturday, March 28, 2009

Easter Bunnies Stuffed Animals

Easter Bunnies Stuffed AnimalsEaster Bunnies Stuffed Animals. A group of Easter bunnies decorates a store window at east 72d street and third avenue, New York City. March 23, 2008.
The Easter Bunny brings baskets filled with colored eggs, candy and toys to the homes of children on the night before Easter. He will either put the baskets in a designated place or hide them somewhere in the house for the children to find when they wake up in the morning.

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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Easter Rabbit Glitter Bunny

Easter Rabbit Glitter BunnyEaster Rabbit Glitter Bunny, pink easter bunny celebrates on a background of glitter eggs, flowers and candy.

Store window decorated at east 72d street and third avenue, New York City. March 23, 2008.
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Big Green Kenworth Truck 18 Wheeler

Big Green Kenworth Truck 18 WheelerBig Green Kenworth Truck 18 Wheeler. Kenworth is a manufacturer of medium and heavy-duty Class 8 trucks based in Kirkland, Washington, a suburb of Seattle.
This truck was making an oil delivery on Manhattan, New York City's upper westside, west 72d street near Columbus avenue. March 24th 2009.

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Sunday, March 22, 2009

Mormon Temple Under Garment

Mormon Temple Under GarmentOriginal image of temple garment circa 1879, taken from Salt Lake Tribune, September 28, 1879, page 4.

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Mormon Temple Under Garment: The marks are a reverse-L-shaped symbol on the right breast, a V-shaped symbol on the left breast, and horizontal marks at the navel and over the right knee. These cuts were later replaced by embroidered symbols.

According to generally-accepted Mormon doctrine, the marks in the garments are sacred symbols. The V-shaped symbol on the left breast was referred to as "The Compasses", while the reverse-L-shaped symbol on the right breast was referred to by early church leaders as "The Square"

According to an explanation by LDS Church President John Taylor in 1883, the "Square" represents "the justice and fairness of our Heavenly Father, that we will receive all the good that is coming to us or all that we earn, on a square deal", and the "Compasses" represents "the North Star". In addition to the Square and Compasses, Taylor described the other symbols as follows: the collar represented the idea that the Lord's "yoke is easy and [his] burden is light", or the "Crown of the Priesthood"; the double-knotted strings represented "the Trinity" and "the marriage covenant"; the navel mark represents "strength in the navel and marrow in the bones"; and the knee mark represents "that every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is the Christ".

The ceremony of Endowment: The under garment, which is alike for both sexes, is a sort of jacket anil trousers together, something like the night-dresses made for children; and is worn night and day. When changed, only an arm or a leg must be removed at once, the fresh garment being thus put on as the other is taken off. This garment protects from disease, and even death, for the bullet of an enemy will nut penetrate it. The prophet Joseph carelessly left off this garment on the day of his death, and had lie not done so, he would have escaped unharmed. Over the inner garment the men wear an ordinary shirt, and the women a white skirt. White stockings and a pair of vhite linen slippers complete the costume.

Entering the building, the candidate's own name and age are registered, and also the names of the parents. The candidates hand in their oil, remove their shoes, and pass with their bundles of clothing into a bath-room divided down the middle by a heavy curtain which separates the sexes. Here the ceremony of purification is performed, the women being washed by women, and the men by men. The person washed is informed that he or she is now cleansed from the blood of this generation, and if faithful, shall never be subject to the plagues and miseries which are about to come upon the earth.

Next follows tlie anointing. The oil is poured from a large horn into the hand of the person officiating, and applied to the crown of the head, eyes, ears, mouth, and feet of the candidate. The eyes are touched, that they may be quick to see; the ears, that the hearing may be sharp; the mouth, to bestow wisdom upon speech; and the feet, that they be swift to run in the ways of the Lord.

A new name, which is rarely to be mentioned, is whispered into the ear, and all are marched into room No. 2, where they are seated, the sexes on opposite sides of the room, and facing each other. Here they are told by a priest that any person not strong enough to proceed may retire; but if any portion of the ceremony is disclosed, the throat of the person so offending will be cut from car to ear. Those faltering, if any, having retired, the remainder are taken into room No. 3, where a representation of the creation, the temptation, and fall is given.

Each candidate then puts on over his robe an apron of white linen, upon which are sewn pieces of green silk representing fig-leaves, and also the cap or veil. All good Mormons are buried in their endowment robes, and the veil worn by the women covers their faces when they are consigned to the grave. In the morning of the resurrection, this veil in to be lifted by the husband; otherwise no woman can see the face of the almighty in the next world.

Sources
  • Hand-book on Mormonism - Hand-book on Mormonism By John McCutchen Coyner Compiled by John McCutchen Coyner Published by Hand-book publishing co., 1882 Original from Ghent University Digitized Jan 28, 2008 95 pages
  • The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft - The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft By Hubert Howe Bancroft, Alfred Bates, Henry Hortop, Robert Zelinsky, History Company, Barbara Zelinsky, John O. Haman, Henry Lebbeus Oak, A.L. Bancroft & Company, Henry Stiner Published by History Co., 1889 Item notes: v. 26 Original from the University of California Digitized Jun 12, 2007 808 pages
  • Temple garment From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.

Friday, March 20, 2009

Robot Astounding Stories of Super Science

Robot Astounding Stories of Super ScienceRobot Astounding Stories of Super Science. Looking much like a Cylon Centurion

Astounding Stories from 1931. January through August were published without a copyright notice. A US copyright renewal search for September through December found no renewals affecting those issues.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Big Yellow Peterbilt Truck 18 Wheeler

Big Yellow Peterbilt Truck 18 Wheeler

Big Yellow Peterbilt Truck 18 Wheeler
Big Yellow Peterbilt Truck 18 Wheeler at a construction site on Manhattan's westside, 86th street and West End Avenue New York City. March 18, 2009.

Peterbilt Motors Company is a manufacturer of medium- and heavy-duty Class 5 through Class 8 trucks headquartered in Denton, Texas.

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Monday, March 16, 2009

Ferrari P4/5 by Pininfarina Italian sports car

Ferrari P4/5 Italian sports car

Ferrari P4/5 Italian sports car

Ferrari P4/5 Italian sports car
Ferrari comes to Manhattan on the corner of west 57th street and 8th avenue New York City in front of the Conde Nast Publications Building. March 16, 2008.

Ferrari S.p.A. is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari.

Enzo Ferrari never intended to produce road cars when he had formed Scuderia Ferrari (literally "Ferrari Stable", and usually used to mean "Team Ferrari", it is correctly pronounced "skoo deh REE ah")

The first Ferrari road car was the 1947 125 S, powered by a 1.5 L V12 engine; Enzo Ferrari reluctantly built and sold his automobiles to fund Scuderia Ferrari.
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Saturday, March 14, 2009

New York Jets vs. Houston Texans

New York Jets vs. Houston TexansNew York Jets vs. Houston Texans, Taken by Anskykids on November 26, 2006 at Giants Stadium. Permission: (Reusing this image) Public Domain.
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Friday, March 13, 2009

Bob Hope

Bob HopeCOMMAND PERFORMANCE, CIRCA 1944. Armed Forces Radio Show, CBS Studio, Hollywood. L-R; Jane Russell, Bob Hope; BG: Major Meredith Willson, AFRS Musical Conductor, AFRS Band.

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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Easter Angel

Easter AngelEaster Angel, The Book of Easter By William Croswell Doane
Published by The Macmillan company, 1910, Original from Harvard University. Digitized Feb 7, 2008. 246 pages. Illustration by Fra Angelico (c. 1395 – February 18, 1455).

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Monday, March 09, 2009

Vintage Wall Sign Livingston Automobile Radiators

Vintage Wall Sign Livingston Automobile Radiators

Vintage Wall Sign Livingston Automobile Radiators

Vintage Wall Sign Livingston Automobile Radiators
Vintage Wall Sign Livingston Automobile Radiators. Demolition of an old parking garage at Broadway between west 75th and 76th streets revealed this vintage Exterior Signage.

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Sunday, March 08, 2009

H.M.S. Resolute desk

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JFK Jr. under Resolute deskThis image is a work of an employee of the Executive Office of the President of the United States, taken or made during the course of the person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.

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The Resolute Desk, made from the timbers of the British ship, the HMS Resolute. Abandoned north of the Arctic Circle in 1854, the HMS Resolute was later found by the crew of an American whaling ship, refitted, and sent to Queen Victoria as a token of goodwill. When the ship was decommissioned in 1879, the British government arranged for a desk to be made from its timbers. It was built by William Evenden, a skilled joiner employed at the Royal Naval Dockyard in Chatham, Queen Victoria presented it to President Rutherford B. Hayes on 23 November 1880. Every President from President Hayes through President Dwight D. Eisenhower used the desk; it was first placed in the Oval Office in 1961 at the request of President John F. Kennedy.

The desk has twice been modified from the original 1880 version. President Franklin D. Roosevelt requested that the kneehole be fitted with a panel carved with the Presidential coat-of-arms, to cover up his infirmities. He didn't want people to know he was in a wheelchair. He did not live to see it installed in 1945. President Ronald Reagan requested it be raised on a 2" base to accommodate his 6'2" frame.

A plate on the front of the desk bears the following inscription:

H.M.S. RESOLUTE forming part of the expedition sent in search of SIR JOHN FRANKLIN IN 1852, was abandoned in latitude 74 degrees 41 minutes N longitude 101 degrees 22 minutes W on 15th May 1854. She was discovered and extricated in September 1855 in latitude 67 degrees N by Captain Buddington of the United States Whaler GEORGE HENRY.

The ship was purchased, fitted out and sent to England as a gift to HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA by the PRESIDENT AND PEOPLE of the UNITED STATES as a token of goodwill & friendship. This table was made from her timbers when she was broken up, and is presented by the QUEEN OF GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND to the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES as a memorial of the courtesy and loving kindness which dictated the offer of the gift of the RESOLUTE.

Saturday, March 07, 2009

Imagine Memorial Strawberry Fields Central Park

Imagine Memorial Strawberry Fields Central Park. The memorial was designed by Bruce Kelly, the chief landscape architect for the Central Park Conservancy. Strawberry Fields was inaugurated on what would have been John Lennon's 45th birthday, 9 October 1985.

The entrance to the memorial is located on Central Park West at West 72nd Street, directly across from the Dakota Apartments, where John lived for the later part of his life.

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Imagine Memorial Strawberry Fields


Imagine Memorial Strawberry Fields Central Park

Friday, March 06, 2009

Columbia Triumphant Maine Monument Central



On the northeast overlooking Merchant's Gate to Central Park, the Maine Monument designed by Harold Van Buren Magonigle (1867 - 1935). A Beaux-Arts memorial of marble and gilded bronze, it was built in 1913 as a memorial to sailors killed aboard the battleship USS Maine, whose 1898 explosion in Havana harbor precipitated the Spanish-American War.

The monument itself is a 44-foot limestone pylon. Crowning the pylon is a gilded bronze sculpture of Columbia Triumphant in a seashell chariot pulled by three seahorses. Churning through the gilt waves.
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Thursday, March 05, 2009

Winter Woods with snow in Central Park

Winter Woods Central ParkWinter Woods with snow in Central Park, just behind The Metropolitan Museum of Art and next to the 83d street traverse. New York City, March 4, 2009.
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009

The Walrus and the Carpenter Alice Through the Looking-glass

The Walrus and the Carpenter'If this were only cleared away/ They said, 'it would be grand!"

Through the Looking-glass and what Alice Found There: And what Alice Found There By Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Peter Newell. Illustrated by Peter Newell. Published by Macmillan and Co., 1902. Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized May 19, 2007, 224 pages

"'The time has come,' the Walrus said,

'To talk of many things:
Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-
wax—

Of cabbages—and kings—
And why the sea is boiling hot—
And whether pigs have wings.'

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Sunday, March 01, 2009

Jabberwocky AliceThrough the Looking-glass

Through the Looking-glass and what Alice Found There. By Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Peter Newell Illustrated by Peter Newell (1862-1924). Published by Macmillan and Co., 1902. Original from the New York Public Library Digitized May 19, 2007. 224 pages
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'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! and through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.