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Salt ponds in San Francisco Bay

Salt evaporation ponds, also called salterns or salt pans, are shallow artificial ponds designed to produce salts from sea water or other brines. The seawater or brine is fed into large ponds and water is drawn out through natural evaporation which allows the salt to be subsequently harvested. The ponds also provide a productive resting and feeding ground for many species of waterbirds, which may include endangered species. The ponds are commonly separated by levees.
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11 Oct 2012 12:49:00
Rolling Through the Bay By Scott Weaver

It has taken 3,000 hours and 34 years to make – but the results are incredible. Artist Scott Weaver has created a huge but incredibly detailed model of San Francisco using 100,000 toothpicks. The work entitled Rolling Through the Bay also doubles as a marble run. Ping pong balls dropped on several ramps at the top of the model follow several “tours” through the city. They pass matchstick replicas of sights such as Alcatraz, Fisherman's Wharf, the Golden Gate Bridge and the city's trademark terraced houses on steep hills.
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21 Feb 2014 13:26:00


With the city of Miami skyline behind it a grand piano is seen on a sandbar in Biscayne Bay on January 26, 2011 in Miami, Florida. It's unknown how or why the heavy musical instrument was on the sandbar but some were speculating it was part of a music video production. The piano was charred from being burned. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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27 Jul 2011 12:51:00
Hacker Group Disrupts Bay Area Mass Transit System

A demonstrator wears a mask during a protest inside the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Civic Center station on August 15, 2011 in San Francisco, California. The hacker group “Anonymous” staged a demonstration at a BART station this evening after BART officials turned off cell phne service in its stations last week during a disruptive protest following a fatal shooting of a man by BART police. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
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16 Aug 2011 11:25:00
A two-horse team street cleaner, with sprayer, squeegee, and roller at rear. New York, between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915. (Photo by NYC Municipal Archives)

A two-horse team street cleaner, with sprayer, squeegee, and roller at rear. New York, between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915. (Photo by NYC Municipal Archives)
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07 Jun 2015 11:30:00
Pro-government fighters stand next to a tank destroyed during recent fighting in Yemen's southwestern city of Taiz March 14, 2016. (Photo by Anees Mahyoub/Reuters)

Pro-government fighters stand next to a tank destroyed during recent fighting in Yemen's southwestern city of Taiz March 14, 2016. (Photo by Anees Mahyoub/Reuters)
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15 Mar 2016 13:59:00
54 Hàng Ga (Chicken Street), 1994. (Photo by  William E. Crawford from the book “Hanoi Streets 1985-2015: In the Years of Forgetting”)

Documentary photographer William E. Crawford was one of the first Western photographers to gain access to North Vietnam after the war ended. He has photographed the capital, Hanoi, at regular intervals since 1985, concentrating on the colonial and indigenous architecture, urban details, landscapes and intimate portraits of people in their home settings, street scenes and the city’s surrounding countryside. Here: 54 Hàng Ga (Chicken Street), 1994. (Photo by William E. Crawford from the book “Hanoi Streets 1985-2015: In the Years of Forgetting”)
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27 Jun 2018 00:01:00
Baldwin Street - The World's Steepest Street

Baldwin Street, in Dunedin, New Zealand, is considered the world's steepest residential street. It is located in the residential suburb of North East Valley, 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) northeast of Dunedin's city centre.
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19 Jan 2014 15:26:00