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Library of Dust depicts individual copper canisters, each containing the cremated remains of patient from a state-run psychiatric hospital. The patients died at the hospital between 1883 (the year the facility opened, when it was called the Oregon State Insane Asylum) and the 1970’s; their bodies have remained unclaimed by their families.
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at 10:39 PM on August 4, 2008
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With over 35,000,000 visitors a year, it could be argued that it is the busiest
museum in the world. Yet most people are there to
catch a plane.
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at 2:13 PM on June 12, 2008
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A
small gallery of talking boards and planchettes by various artists. (Warning: navigation is somewhat clunky.)
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at 11:36 AM on November 1, 2007
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Trulia Hindsight merges real estate data showing the year properties were built with animated maps (US Only). Search for your town by name; here's
mine.
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at 10:19 PM on May 29, 2007
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"November 4: Voters from the six counties of the District agree to a $35 million bond issue, using their homes, farms and business properties as collateral, in order to support the construction of the
Golden Gate Bridge. The vote is 145,657 in favor and 46,954 against."
On May 27th, 1937, the World's longest suspension bridge opened to the public.
Happy 70th anniversary,
Golden Gate.
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at 12:06 PM on May 27, 2007
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For your lunchtime (or teatime, or bedtime) wooing pleasure: In which William and Conan are inadvertently embroiled in something much
sillier than they will ever comprehend. [warning: WooTube]
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at 12:23 PM on May 24, 2007
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Desperate for Depression Era jobs, the communities of Santa Clara, Alameda, San Mateo and San Francisco raised 476,066 dollars to
purchase 1000 acres of land in the fertile Santa Clara Valley and put their community in the running for the
first West Coast base for rigid airships. On February 20th, 1933, President Hoover signed the
bill that authorized the Navy to accept the Mountain View property. Half of the five million dollars appropriated for construction went to the
building of
Hangar One, the eventual
home of the
USS Macon.
Sunnyvale Naval Air Station, commissioned on April 4th, 1933, was renamed
Moffett Field after the death of RAdm William Moffett in the crash of the airship USS Akron.
On February 12th, 1935, the
USS Macon ditched off Point Sur, effectively ending the Navy's rigid airship program.
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at 10:05 PM on February 12, 2006
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