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From NASA

Bluesky baseball fans, images of just about any baseball card you can think of are available at the excellent app of the Library of Congress: LOC 

Set records at every distance from 2,000 to 10,000 m. Oh my goodness! 

Steve Prefontaine

From: The Onion 

This was written by Marcus Aurelius He’s saying that when we help people it has to be something more than simply the right thing to do.

Sophie Charlotte

His masterpiece is “Blood Meridian.“

Typical of McCarthy’s style, the text is all one sentence.

I find this poem unsettling. Associating death with all that is thorny and unpleasant . . . I don’t know. I guess I’ll find out. 

The detail in the flowers, lower right is exquisite. Most impressive brushwork! 

She was among the 50 greatest British writers.

Angela Carter was a popular feminist author.

New York City, 57th St., 1979

Fake news!

The rocky shoreline of Acadia National Park 

She won 10 major LPGA championships!

The greatest woman athlete of the first half of the 20th century . . .

The spelling is a variant. But this is the author of the previous post. 

Lao Tzu was a brilliant philosopher.

I did not know that Tertullian wrote polemics against Gnosticism.

I disagree. Sometimes the first reaction to truth is delight.

I had no idea American engagement in Vietnam began so early.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste 

I’m beginning to study Vasco da Gama. This is where I begin. 

Moonrise on the eastern shore of Maryland

I read each of his novels five times. All of them. Because in each successive reading, I was discovering more. In the peerage of the finest authors of fiction . . . 

Laird Hamilton was the first one to surf a really heavy wave at Teahupo’o.

The fish looks too big for the great blue heron, but the bird had breakfast that morning.

Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable

Marilyn Monroe

Ballinasloe Marina on the River Suck in County Galway, Ireland

The author of the previous post…

I captured this strike by accident in the desert outside Albuquerque.

Jack Kerouac

Florian Goga is a very fine photographer.

Jennifer Ehle