Historic Painting: "San Francisco Fire" by William A. Coulter, 1906.
117 years ago today, San Francisco reaped the whirlwind. This is what it looked like.
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Forgotten flight: The lonely voyage of Apollo 6, and the terrible day it happened.
On April 4, 1968, an unmanned rocket blasted off from Florida. Turned out it was a good day to leave Earth.
Interiors: Olden Church, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway.
Places like this are the essence of folk life in Norway in the 18th century.
Toward a theory on the death of the Republican Party.
Both of the major U.S. political parties are dead, or soon will be. Here are my thoughts on how the GOP destroyed itself.