Haunted Graveyarrd

Haunted Graveyard, skeletons, gravestones, Jack-o-Lanterns, haunted tree and twisted landscape. Halloween window decorations on New york City's upper westside October 2010.

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Ghost Rising from the Grave with Haunted House and Jack-o-Lanterns

Ghost Rising from the Grave with Haunted House and Jack-o-Lanterns in the corner antique store Halloween window at 77th street and Amsterdam avenue, New York City, New York. October 2010.

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Crowd gathering on Wall Street after the 1929 crash

Crowd gathers outside the Stock Exchange after the crash. Looking down Broad street from Wall street and Federal Hall. From an Social Security Administration poster. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States Federal Government under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code. Generally speaking, works created by U.S. Government employees are not eligible for copyright protection in the United States. See Circular 1 "COPYRIGHT BASICS" PDF from the U.S. Copyright Office.

On Black Tuesday, the twenty-ninth, the market collapsed. In the words of a gray haired Stock Exchange guard, "They roared like a lot of lions and tigers. They hollered and screamed, they clawed at one another collars. It was like a bunch of crazy men. Every once in a while, when Radio or Steel or Auburn would take another tumble, you'd see some poor devil collapse and fall to the floor."

In a single day, sixteen million shares were traded--a record--and thirty billion dollars vanished into thin air. Westinghouse lost two thirds of its September value. DuPont dropped seventy points. The "Era of Get Rich Quick" was over. Jack Dempsey, America's first millionaire athlete, lost $3 million. Cynical New York hotel clerks asked incoming guests, "You want a room for sleeping or jumping?"

Refusing to accept the "natural" economic cycle in which a market crash was followed by cuts in business investment, production and wages, Hoover summoned industrialists to the White House on November 21, part of a round robin of conferences with business, labor, and farm leaders, and secured a promise to hold the line on wages. Henry Ford even agreed to increase workers' daily pay from six to seven dollars. From the nation's utilities, Hoover won commitments of $1.8 billion in new construction and repairs for 1930. Railroad executives made a similar pledge. Organized labor agreed to withdraw its latest wage demands.

The president ordered federal departments to speed up construction projects. He contacted all forty-eight state governors to make a similar appeal for expanded public works. He went to Congress with a $160 million tax cut, coupled with a doubling of resources for public buildings and dams, highways and harbors. In December of 1929, Hoover's friend Julius Barnes of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce presided over the first meeting of the National Business Survey Conference, a task force of four hundred leading businessmen designated to enforce the voluntary agreements. Looking back at the year, the "New York Times" judged Commander Richard Byrd's expedition to the South Pole-- not the Wall Street crash-- the biggest news story of 1929.

Praise for the President's intervention was widespread. "No one in his place could have done more," concluded the "New York Times" in the spring of 1930, by which time the Little Bull Market had restored a measure of confidence on Wall Street. "Very few of his predecessors could have done as much." On February 18 Hoover announced that the preliminary shock had passed, and that employment was again on the mend. In June, a delegation of bishops and bankers called at the White House to warn of spreading joblessness. Hoover reminded them of his successful conferences with business and labor, and the explosion of government activity and public works designed to alleviate suffering. "Gentlemen," he concluded, "you have come six weeks too late".

TEXT CREDIT: The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum

Rev. Josiah Henson

"Uncle Tom's story of his life." An autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson (Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom"). From 1789 to 1876 Author Josiah Henson Editor John Lobb Publisher: Christian age office, 1876. Works published prior to 1978 were copyright protected for a maximum of 75 years. See Circular 1 "COPYRIGHT BASICS" PDF from the U.S. Copyright Office. Works published works before 1923, in this case 1876, are now in the public domain. Rev. Josiah Henson escaped to Canada on 28 October 1830.

"It was the 28th of October, 1830, in the morning, when my feet first touched the Canada shore. I threw myself on the ground, rolled in the sand, seized handfuls of it and kissed them, and danced around, till, in the eyes of several who were present, I passed for a madman. " He's some crazy fellow," said a Colonel Warren, who happened to be there. " Oh no, master ! don't you know ? I'm free !" He burst into a shout of laughter. " Well, I never knew freedom make a man roll in the sand in such a fashion." Still I could not control myself. I hugged and kissed my wife and children, and, until the first exuberant burst of feeling was over, went on as before." Excerpt From: "Uncle Tom's Story Of His Life": An autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson

Not So Itsy Bitsy Spider

Not So Itsy Bitsy Spider and reflection in a Halloween store window on New York City's upper westside, Amsterdam Avenue at 78th street, October 2010.

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Wyatt Barry Stapp Earp

Description: Wyatt Barry Stapp Earp p (March 19, 1848 – January 13, 1929) circa 1869, at about age 21. On October 26, 1881, Wyatt, Morgan and Virgil Earp along with Doc Holliday shoot it out at the OK Corral with outlaws Ike and Billy Clanton, Tom and Frank McLaury, and Billy Claiborne in Tombstone, Arizona, leaving three men dead and three more wounded.

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Cholera bacteria Vibrio cholerae bacteria

Caption: Scanning electron microscope image of Vibrio cholerae bacteria, which infect the digestive system. Zeiss DSM 962 SEM T.J. Kirn, M.J. Lafferty, C.M.P Sandoe and R.K. Taylor, 2000, "Delineation of pilin domains required for bacterial association into microcolonies and intestinal colonization", Molecular Microbiology, Vol. 35(4):896-910

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George Washington Bridge

George Washington Bridge, Spanning Hudson River between Manhattan & Fort Lee, NJ, New York, New York, NY. Groundbreaking for the new bridge began in October 1927, a project of the Port of New York Authority. Its chief engineer was Othmar Ammann, with Cass Gilbert as architect.

The bridge was dedicated on October 24, 1931, and opened to traffic the following day.

Title: George Washington Bridge, Spanning Hudson River between Manhattan & Fort Lee, NJ, New York, New York, NY. Creator(s): Historic American Engineering Record, creator.

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* Significance: At the time of its construction, the George Washington Bridge was the longest span suspension bridge in the world.

Great Lakes freighter Presque Isle E.M. Ford

After fifty-seven years as an iron ore carrier on the Great Lakes, the Cleveland-Cliffs freighter Presque Isle was due for retirement in 1955. It gained a reprieve, however, and was rebuilt as a specialized self-unloading, bulk cement carrier. It survives today in its third century of service, despite two serous accidents, and has reached the age of 108.

Renamed E.M. Ford, the ship returned to work on April 19, 1956, only to lose steering on the trial run and collide with the self-unloader A.M. Byers in the St. Clair River near Algonac, Michigan. Both ships received significant damage and the A.M. Byers sank in shallow water.

E.M. Ford was repaired and began hauling bulk cement from the Huron dock at Alpena, Michigan, to company storage silos around the Great Lakes. Between 1958 and 1977, the ship carried 898 cargoes and all were powdered cement. Most came aboard at Alpena and these were mainly taken to Green Bay, Saginaw, Milwaukee, Waukegan, Muskegon, St. Joseph, Detroit, Buffalo, Toledo and Cleveland. On twenty-three occasions E.M. Ford passed through the Welland Canal for the Lake Ontario port of Oswego, New York. The ship is shown in Lock Three on June 23, 1979.

by Skip Gillham, Vineland, Ontario, Canada

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The Cuban Missile Crisis

21 Oct 1962: VP-18 was one of several patrol, squadrons deployed during the Cuban Missile Crisis. A squadron P2V-7 flying over a Soviet cargo ship during the Cuban Crisis, 1962.

The Lockheed P-2 Neptune (originally designated P2V until September 1962) was a Maritime patrol and ASW aircraft. It was developed for the United States Navy by Lockheed

Source: Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons Volume 2: The History of VP, VPB, VP(H) and VP(AM) Squadrons. Author: USN.

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Skeleton Pirate

Skeleton Pirate, on the high seas of Manhattan's upper westside 75th street near Central Park, October 20, 2010. Image License: I, (sookietex) the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In case this is not legally possible, I grant any entity the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

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Zombies The living Dead

Zombies The living Dead. Halloween decorations on west 75th street in Manhattan New York City, New York. October 20, 2010. Image License: I, (sookietex) the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In case this is not legally possible, I grant any entity the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

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Mount Washington New Hampshire

Description: Autumn in the Conway Meadows Looking Towards Mount Washingon.jpeg English: "Autumn in the Conway Mountains Looking Towards Mount Washington," oil on canvas, by the American painter Albert Bierstadt.

Mount Washington is the highest peak in the Northeastern United States at 6,288 ft. It is famous for its weather, and has long held the record for the highest wind gust measured at the Earth's surface, 231 mph. It was known as Agiocochook, or "Home of the Great Spirit", before European settlers arrived.

Date: 1858. Author: Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902)

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Twisted Geodesic Dome

Twisted Geodesic Dome. On October 18, 1933, R. Buckminster Fuller applies for a patent for his Dymaxion Car.

Fuller designed and built prototypes of what he hoped would be a safer, aerodynamic car, which he called the Dymaxion. "Dymaxion" is said to be a syllabic abbreviation of dynamic maximum tension, or possibly of dynamic maximum ion.

They had three wheels, two front drive wheels and one rear, steered wheel. The engine was in the rear.

The aerodynamic, somewhat tear-shaped body was large enough to seat eleven people and was about 18 feet long.

Despite its length, and due to its three-wheel design, the Dymaxion turned on a small radius and could be parked in a tight space. The prototypes were efficient in fuel consumption for their day, traveling about 30 miles per gallon.

Investors backed out and research ended after one of the prototypes was involved in a high-profile collision that resulted in a fatality.

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Birth of a Nation Poster

Birth of a Nation Poster. Author: Unknown; distributed by Epoch Film Co. This image is in the public domain in the United States, where Works published prior to 1978 were copyright protected for a maximum of 75 years. See Circular 1 "COPYRIGHT BASICS" PDF from the U.S. Copyright Office. Works published before 1923 in this case 1915 are now in the public domain. Birth of a Nation premiered with the title "The Clansman" is a 1915 American silent film directed by D. W. Griffith. Set during and after the American Civil War, the film was based on Thomas Dixon's The Clansman, a novel and play.

It was the highest-grossing film of the silent film era, and is noted for its camera techniques and narrative.

It has provoked controversy for promoting "white supremacy" and positively portraying the "knights" of the Ku Klux Klan as heroes.

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“ ...The Birth of a Nation is as revered as it is reviled. Its unparalleled innovation and audacity, technically and narratively, coupled with its unprecedented cultural impact, makes it perhaps the single most important film ever made. ”

Rangers Ballpark in Arlington Texas

Rangers Ballpark in Arlington Texas, located between Dallas and Fort Worth. Funding was approved for the new home of the Texas Rangers in 1991 by the City of Arlington. Construction began on April 2, 1992. The new Ballpark was opened on April 1, 1994 for an exhibition game between the Rangers and the New York Mets.

The first official game was on April 11 against the Milwaukee Brewers.

The Ballpark was designed by David M. Schwarz Architectural Services of Washington, D.C.

Description: Home Plate Entrance of Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, taken from the kid's ballpark next door, looking up from Nolan Ryan Expressway. Date: July 24, 2007

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Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington Hurricane Club, April 1943 photographed by Gordon Parks. JPEG (23kb) || TIFF (245kb) Duke Ellington has his first big hit with the distinctive arrangement of Mood Indigo. First recorded by his band for Brunswick Records (Cat No. 01068) on October 17, 1930. Title: New York, New York. Duke Ellington, orchestra leader.Creator(s): Gordon Parks, 1912-2006, photographer. Date Created/Published: 1943 May. Medium: 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.

Part of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress) Reproduction Number: LC-USW3-023953-C (b&w film neg.)

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The Wright brothers and Plane

Wright model "A" or "B" rear well on ground, Montgomery, Alabama, 1910.

The Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912) are generally credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903.

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Witchcraft Trial at Salem Village

Pioneers in the settlement of America: from Florida in 1510 to California in 1849 (1876). Author: Crafts, William A. (William August), 1819-1906. Publisher: Boston, Published by Samuel Walker and Company.

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When Europeans first settled in America, the belief in witchcraft was universal among civilized nations. It had come down from the dark ages, and thousands of victims had been condemned as witches, tortured, and burned at the stake. Coming to a vast, unbroken wilderness, into which the light of true religion had never penetrated, and inhabited by heathen who were believed to be worshippers and agents of devils, the superstition which the colonists shared in common with all people of that age was by no means diminished.

The mysterious forest seemed the fitting abode of evil spirits, who were more powerful here than elsewhere, because of the incantations of the Indians, and the absence of the counteracting influence of the worship of God. Romanist and Protestant alike believed that here they had to contend with the spirit of darkness, who ruled his worshippers, the natives, if he did not openly wage war upon Christians. The more strict they were in the observance of religious services, the stronger was this belief; and among the Protestants, the Puritans of New England were the most ready to put faith in the superstition.

Happily, among the settlers there were few of that class of evil-disposed and idle persons, railers at sacred things and experts in necromancy, who might be charged with dealings with Satan, and who, in Europe, furnished the great number of victims who suffered for witchcraft; else it is quite probable that such madness as was displayed at a later day would have been manifest from the first.

But 'the Puritans were not alone in their belief in witchcraft, or readiness to punish witches. Even under the mild and liberal government of Penn, two Swedish women were indicted for witchcraft, under instructions from the governor himself; and they escaped by reason of some defect in the indictment, rather than from any unwillingness to punish the offence.

It is said that Penn, on one occasion, in the early days of Philadelphia, when a woman was charged with being a witch and riding a broomstick through the air, declared there was no law against that method of locomotion, and she might so ride as often as she pleased; but if this be true, he had probably modified his opinions if he prompted the indictment of the Swedish women.

November The Book of Days

The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar, Including Anecdote, Biography, - History, Curiosities of Literature and Oddities of Human Life and Character, Robert Chambers.

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November is the pioneer of Winter, who comes, with his sharp winds and keen frosts, to cut down every bladed and leafy bit of green that is standing up. so as to make more room for the coming snowflakes to fall on the level waste, and form a great bed for Winter to sleep upon. He blows all the decaying leaves into dreary nollowg, to fill them up, so that when Winter is out on the long dark nights, or half-blinded with the great feathery flakes, he may not fall into them.

If a living flower still stands above its dead companions, it bends its head like a mourner over a grave, and seems calling on our mother-earth to be let in. The swollen streams roar and hurry along, as if they were eager to bury themselves in the great rivers, for they have no flowers to mirror, no singing of birds to tempt them to linger among the pebbles and listen, no green bending sprays to toss to and fro, and play with on their way, and they seem to make a deep complaining as they rush along between the high brimming banks.

The few cattle that are out, stand head to head, as if each tried to warm the other with its breath, or turned round to shut out the gloomy prospect that surrounds them, laying down their ears at every whistle of the wind through the naked hedges. Even the clouds, when they break up, have a ragged and vagrant look, and appear to wander homeless about the sky, for there is no golden fire in the far west now for them to gather about, and sun themselves in its warmth: they seem to move along in doubt and fear, as if trying to find the blue sky they have lost. The woodman returns home at night with his head bent down, feeling there is nothing cheerful to look round upon, while his dog keeps close behind, seeming to avail himself of the little shelter his master affords from the wind, while they move on together.

The pleasantest thing we see is the bundle of fagots ne carries on his shoulders, aa it reminds us of home—the crackling fire, the cleanswept hearth, and the cozy-looking kettle, that sits 'singing a quiet tune,' on the hob. We pity the poor fellow with the bundle under his arm, who stands looking up at the guide-post where three roads meet, and hope he has not far to go on such a utormy and moonless night.

The Naked Cowboy

The Naked Cowboy aka Robert John Burck announcing his intention to run for president in 2012. Wednesday, October 6th, 2010 at 12:00 P.M. EST. Military Island (44th & Broadway) Times Square, New York, New York. Image License: I, (sookietex) the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In case this is not legally possible, I grant any entity the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law. If This image is subject to copyright in your jurisdiction, i (sookietex) the copyright holder have irrevocably released all rights to it, allowing it to be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, used, modified, built upon, or otherwise exploited in any way by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, with or without attribution of the author, as if in the public domain.

Trinity Church Graveyard

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There are three burial grounds closely associated with Trinity Church. The first Trinity Churchyard, at Wall Street and Broadway, in which Alexander Hamilton, William Bradford, Robert Fulton, Captain James Lawrence and Albert Gallatin are buried.

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The Great Chicago Fire,

Title: Chicago in Flames -- The Rush for Lives Over Randolph Street Bridge. Date: 1871. Source: Harper's Weekly. Creator: John R. Chapin (1823 - 1904). Category: Place. Type: Painting, Drawing, Etching, Other. Permission: Public domain. Subject: Chicago Fire.

The Great Chicago Fire burned from Sunday, October 8, to early Tuesday, October 10, 1871.

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Ludwig I of Bavaria Oktoberfest

Ludwig I of Bavaria. Artist: Joseph Karl Stieler (1781–1858) Date: 1826. Current location: Neue Pinakothek, Munich. The original "Oktoberfest" occurred in Munich, on October 12, 1810. For the public commemoration of their marriage between, Crown Prince Ludwig (later King Ludwig I) and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen (namesake of the Theresienwiese festival grounds) . Works published prior to 1978 were copyright protected for a maximum of 75 years. See Circular 1 "COPYRIGHT BASICS" PDF from the U.S. Copyright Office. Works published works before 1923, in this case 1926, are now in the public domain.

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Yom Kippur War

Egyptian forces on October 7 crossing one of the bridges laid across the Suez Canal The Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War or October War also known as the 1973 Arab-Israeli War and the Fourth Arab-Israeli War, was fought from October 6 to 25, 1973, between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria.

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Sinclair station in Albany, Texas

Description: Albany04 sinclair01.jpg. A restored Sinclair station in Albany, Texas. Date: 27 July 2009 (2009-07-27) Source: Own work. Author: Lothar1976

Sinclair Oil Corporation is an American petroleum corporation, founded by Harry F. Sinclair on May 1, 1916 as the Sinclair Oil & Refining Corporation by combining the assets of 11 small petroleum companies.

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The First Thanksgiving

The First Thanksgiving. CREATOR: Ferris, Jean Louis Gerome, 1863-1930, artist., RELATED NAMES: Detroit Publishing Co., publisher. NOTES: Title from jacket., Photograph of a photo of a painting signed "J.L.G. Ferris." , Detroit Publishing Co. no. 090423., Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Collection, [reproduction number, LC-D416-90423]

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V-2 rocket Vergeltungswaffe 2 A-4 Aggregate-4

U.S. Army V-2 cutaway drawing showing engine, fuel cells, guidance units and warhead. (U.S. Air Force photo)

On October 3, 1942, German scientist Wernher von Braun's V-2 rocket, was fired successfully from Peenemunde, as island off Germany's Baltic coast. It traveled 118 miles forwarded by 38.000 hp, the rocket reached a maximum speed of appr. 5500 km/h.

The rocket was the world's first long-range ballistic missile and first known human artifact to achieve sub-orbital spaceflight.

Over 3,000 V-2s were launched as military rockets by the German Wehrmacht against Allied targets during the war, mostly London and later Antwerp, resulting in the death of an estimated 7,250 military personnel and civilians.

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Texas Flag Come and Take It

Texas Flag - Come and Take It. This flag was raised by Texas settlers at the Battle of Gonzales in October 1835 after Mexico attempted to retrieve a cannon which had been granted to the town of Gonzales for protection against raids by native tribe.

The Battle of Gonzales was the first military engagement of the Texas Revolution. It was fought near Gonzales, Texas, on October 2, 1835,

Author: DevinCook. Released into the public domain (by the author). This image has been (or is hereby) released into the public domain by its creator, DevinCook. This applies worldwide.

In case this is not legally possible, the creator grants anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

#don'tmesswithtexas More about this image and story at Public Domain Clip Art - http://publicdomainclip-art.blogspot.com/2010/10/texas-flag-come-and-take-it.html