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A policeman stands by a burning car, 1936

A policeman stands by a burning car, set alight during a communist march in the East End of London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). Circa 1936

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10 Aug 2011 10:36:00,post received 0 comments

Fact America last Weeks, Part 3/3

Bill Wyatt, owner of the Y Que Trading Post in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, wears a Donald Trump face mask in his shop during the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic on April 23, 2020. Wyatt has transformed his topical tee shirt business to a topical face mask business now called Y Que Mask and PPE Trading Post, since the start of the coronavirus crisis. According to Wyatt, the mask featuring Dr. Anthony Fauci is a best seller, as are masks with characters from the Netflix hit “Tiger King” and also popular internet memes. (Photo by Robyn Beck/AFP Photo)

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01 May 2020 00:01:00,post received 0 comments

Touching Vintage Transport. Part VII

1914: A Thorneycroft motor van as used during World War I

A Thorneycroft motor van as used during World War I. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). August 1914

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13 Dec 2011 11:49:00,post received 0 comments

Fact The Day in Photos – February 10, 2017

A hot air balloon in the likeness of Yoda from Star Wars prepares for liftoff at the 21st Philippine International Hot Air Balloon Festival at the former Clark US Air Force base in Pampanga Province, Philippines on February 9, 2017. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

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10 Feb 2017 12:29:00,post received 0 comments

Educative If the Moon were Replaced with Some of our Planets

Our moon is a pretty big object. It's big enough to be a respectable planet in its own right, if it were orbiting the sun instead of the Earth. (Actually, it is orbiting the sun in a nearly perfectly circular orbit, that the Earth only slightly perturbs... but that's a topic for another day.) The Moon is a quarter the diameter of the Earth. Only Pluto has a satellite that is larger, in proportion to the size of the planet it orbits.