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Tag: Miscellaneous
Le Reve, The Venetian, and Misc. Vegas Pics
We went to see Le Reve at the Wynn, which was amazing on Saturday night. I hadn't seen a Cirque du Soleil show, and let me tell you I was so impressed. I loved every minute of it. Here are the rest of our miscellaneous Vegas pics.
More Charlotte Pics
Goodbye, Charlotte, you're a great city! Friendly people, a very nice downtown, and a really fun event. Here are some miscellaneous pictures I took at a little park on my way to the auditorium today.
The Mule & The Well
One day, a farmer's Mule fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old and the well needed to be covered up anyway, it just wasn't worth it to retrieve the mule. So he invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the...
Interesting Prison Statistic
"Let's start with a premise that I don't think a lot of Americans are aware of. We have five percent of the world's population; we have 25 percent of the world's known prison population. There are only two possibilities here: either we have the most evil people on earth living in the United States; or we are doing something dramatically wrong in terms of how we approach the issue of criminal justice." Source: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/
Lunch On The Skyscraper
I have this photo hanging in my house, love it for some reason. This presentation reviews some of the historical photographs captured by Charles Ebbets in the early 1930’s. Most of them depict daily scenes of the workers who participated in the construction of the skyscrapers between 1920 and 1935. As you will see, the safety measures were somewhat peculiar, and the photos were done trying to play down that situation.