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Infrared Photography - Georgia Power Plant Yates

24 Jul 2019 2 minute read 0 comments Solominer

This retired Coal power plant was retired in 2015, but still towers into the sky. I passed it on the back from the Chattahoochee Bend State Park and took some pictures of it approaching the facility on the way out of the park.      Camera Model Lumi...

Let me tell you a story

21 Jul 2019 1 minute read 2 comments Wakeupkitty

Once upon a time, ages ago, I heard this story, it was told to me. It was about a hole in the ground, they said, it was meant to be an escape way for dreamers but in the first place for the molested once, those who were chased, by heartless mothers,...

Hideout

21 Jul 2019 4 minute read 0 comments mgaft1

Saturday morning, I opened a letter that came from the city of Los Angeles. It stated that I owed 160 bucks worth of parking ticket for Acura Integra, the car I used to drive two years ago. "Wait a second. Didn’t I sell it by then? Where is the damn...

Paper Money and Banking Origins

14 Jul 2019 4 minute read 0 comments MoneyWiseAlpha

Nowadays, the banking system plays such an important role in our daily lives. Almost everywhere you go there are bank branches where you can conveniently access your stored currency. Banks provide many services such as checking and savings accounts,...

A Brief History of Money: From Hunting-Gathering To Cryptocurrencies

10 Jul 2019 3 minute read 0 comments MoneyWiseAlpha

A Brief History of Money: From Hunting-Gathering To Cryptocurrencies   In the Beginning People have always desired to exchange the end results of their labor with one another.  In prehistoric ages, early people were grouped into small tribes that roa...

Remembering The RCA 180x: An amazing little 8-bit processor

9 Jul 2019 3 minute read 2 comments Daniel Goldman

  Reading Cabe Atwell’s article on the Z80 CP/M emulator running on Adafruit’s new Grand Central board made me feel nostalgic for my early days with computers. However, Atwell already covered a decent amount about CP/M. I could go into its derivative...

Standing under the new bridge, last one got washed out 10 years ago

6 Jul 2019 2 minute read 2 comments Solominer

The spot I was standing at was completely underwater during some late 2000s storms. Friends that lived in the area at the time said it rained for a week straight and rivers like the one in the picture had enormous volume flowing through them during t...

RESPONSE: The truth about the Japanese sword. (Incident in Otsu)

5 Jul 2019 6 minute read 0 comments Strontium

This article is a response to the recent article The truth about the Japanese sword. (Incident in Otsu) by author bammbuss. I'm not usually one to critically respond to articles written by others, but in this case I feel compelled.The article by bamm...

Why you MUST study French revolution?

5 Jul 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Emad

No I am not a fan of the famous quote "A people who do not know their history are fated to repeat it." I don't think history repeats, I don't think you can predict the future studying past, so... why I think you should study French revolution? I wil...

Buried Treasures

2 Jul 2019 5 minute read 1 comment MagoSimon

After a great life of fortune, some people prefer to leave their wealth buried and although many times they are found, some of these treasures can bring with them some consequences. . .    1.- When a landowner or a bandit buried a treasure, he usuall...