Here’s a beautiful short film by Arden Oksanen titled “Pictures of a Cowboy”. It’s about the life and work of Carl Oksanen, a cowboy-turned-photographer who documented the beauty of Wyoming through stunning landscape photographs. Prepare to be inspired.
From HERE.
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Now a Firefighter is Reprimanded for Saving a Life
Days after a lifeguard was fired for breaking protocol to rescue a drowning woman, a Philadelphia firefighter has managed to keep his job after breaking protocol to save a choking woman. Firefighter Fran Cheney was criticized after he found a woman grasping for breath and choking on smoke on the second floor of a warehouse fire on Wednesday. He ripped his air mask off and gave it to her, then carried her downstairs and outside to safety. Cheney collapsed and was hospitalized with smoke inhalation. Yet, after the heroic move, not to mention the $500 he donated to her family, he was thanked by a visit from a top fire official criticizing him for his actions. However, amid public outcry the department has now announced Cheney will not be formally disciplined.
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On 2 July 1942, most of the children of Lidice, a small village in what was then Czechoslovakia, were handed over to the Łódź Gestapo office. Those 82 children were then transported to the extermination camp at Chełmno 70 kilometers away. There they were gassed to death. This remarkable sculpture by by Marie Uchytilová commemorates them. Yet what had they (and their families) done to warrant such an end?
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An adult skeleton has 213 bones. – Provided by RandomHistory.com
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No Such Thing As Mermaids, Says US Government
In a move reminiscent of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website post on preparing for a zombie apocalypse, the National Ocean Service, an office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has elected to publish a declaration regarding the existence—or, more specifically, the nonexistence—of mermaids. Following a TV program on mermaids that many viewers may have mistaken for a documentary, employees at the agency found themselves fielding an unusual number of inquiries regarding the mythical creatures. The agency therefore elected to publicly address the issue on its website, declaring that there is no evidence that “aquatic humanoids” exist.
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Dow Jones Averages Reaches Its Lowest Point of the Great Depression (1932)
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, often referred to as the Dow, is the best-known and most widely followed market indicator in the world. Tracking the performance of 30 blue-chip US stocks—which sometimes change—the Dow is thought to reflect the overall condition of the US economy. In 1932, the Dow reached its lowest point of the Great Depression, closing at 41.22—down almost 90 percent since 1929. It did not return to pre-1929 levels until 1954. When did the Dow reach its all-time high?