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At the Pisgah Inn,
on the Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina, 3 May 2014
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The Wedding of Erin and Dennis on 30 October 2020
Rhoda and the '84 Fleetwood Brougham on the Blue Ridge Parkway
Photos from Savannah, Georgia - some photos have descriptive captions
Artwork by Rhoda, on the front cover of Scott's new book!
Vacation photos from the Black Hills area of South Dakota - many photos have descriptive captions
Pictures from Rhoda's Knitting Guild
Bought a "Keep America Great" cap, put it next to "USA" and "Mauldin" caps - hey; that's Red, White, and Blue!
       
Click here to see photos recently found, of a fantastic sunrise on January 7th, 2015
       
Click here to see a photo of Rhoda at one of "the world's most romantic restaurants"
        Rhoda and her Valentine present
        Preferred means of tranportation - 2019
    Montreal, Quebec
    Chebeague Island, Maine
    Hendersonville, North Carolina
       
       
       
       
In Memoriam
           
Joan Crosby
           
17 January 1927 - 18 October 2017
 
       
2017 August 11 - flight from Greer, SC to LaGuardia, NY
       
2017 August 11 - flight from LaGuardia, NY to Toronto, Ontario
       
2017 August 11 - Toronto
       
2017 August 12 - Toronto
       
2017 August 13 - Ontario
       
2017 August 14 - Winnipeg Manitoba
       
2017 August 15 - Saskatchewan Alberta BC
       
2017 August 16 - BC Vancouver
       
2017 August 17 - flight from Vancouver to Toronto
       
2017 August 17 - flight from Toronto to LaGuardia
       
2017 August 17 - flight from LaGuardia to Greer
       
2017 June 24 - flight from South Carolina to Iowa (refueled in Peoria, Illinois)
       
2017 June 26 - The Mississippi River area between McGregor and Lansing, Iowa, and Wisconsin
       
2017 June 27 - The Biley clocks, in Spillville, Iowa     ...     and see Rhoda in jail!
       
2017 June 27 - World's smallest church, near Festina, Iowa
       
2017 June 28 - flight from Iowa to South Carolina (refueled in Quincy, Illinois)
        NASA Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama
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2016 July 1 - Cass Scenic Railroad, Cass, West Virginia
2016 July 2 - Reynolda House, Salem, North Carolina
2016 July 3 - Old Salem, North Carolina
                Looking like all Hell is unleashed, and is roiling the very skies!
                A crashing wave follows behind the tumult of the initial onrush!
2014 June 21-29 - DC & Maine flights
2014 June 21 - Udvar-Hazy Air & Space Museum near Dulles Airport
2014 June 22 - National Art Gallery
2014 June 22 - Korean War Memorial - haunting and unforgettable
2014 June 23 - Museum of Natural History
2014 June 23 - Museum of American History
2014 June 25-29 - Chebeague Island
 
See the Brookgreen Gardens website for more information.
No relation to me ...
See the Brookgreen Gardens website for more information.
This was the front of our Christmas card for 2006
 
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See a haunting, revealing look at conditions in the City of Baltimore, Maryland
Video – South Carolina osprey catches a Spanish Mackerel
Girls in Windows, by Ormond Gigli, taken in 1960
A train carved from the tip of a pencil by artist Cindy Chinn
From D Strict Holdings, South Korea ...
The amazing backyard railroad of Jim Sabin
Union Pacific's Great Race to Ogden
As part of Union Pacific's celebration of the 150th anniversary of the transcontinental railroad completion, the newly restored Big Boy No. 4014 met No. 844 in Ogden as a ceremonial golden spike was tapped on May 9, 2019.
Norfolk Southern Still Evolving 1989 TV commercial
Norfolk Southern Metamorphosis 1991 TV commercial
Norfolk Southern Chasm 2001 TV commercial
Norfolk Southern Weathervane 2003? TV commercial
Norfolk Southern Tree 2006 TV commercial
Norfolk Southern Lonely Gallon 2007 TV commercial
Norfolk Southern Power of the Thoroughbred 2008 TV commercial
Norfolk Southern City of Possibilities 2012 TV commercial
Norfolk Southern What's Your Function? 2013 TV commercial
Alka Seltzer made a hilarious and unforgettable 1970 TV commercial, set in a prison ...
Norfolk Southern
locomotive in full autumn colors
Mosasaurus eats Great White Shark
The 1963 Chrysler Turbine car
    A cool stairway
    40-ton whale jumps completely out of the water
The interesting tale of Portugal's inverted tower of the Knights Templar, in Sintra's Quinta da Regaleira.
Watch this video of a dolphin who swam up to a diver, needing help.
Union Pacific's great 4-8-8-4 Big Boy is back in action!
    1953 Bensport La Sarthe - based on a Bentley R-Type Continental chassis also see more here and here
Apple Computer Macintosh "1984" TV commercial
    Newsreel video of the surrender of Imperial Japan on the battleship USS Missouri
The School of Athens, by Raphael |
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The School of Athens was painted in 1510, on a wall in the Pope's personal apartments in the Vatican, soon after the use of perspective was invented. The use of perspective is clearly central to the representation of the painting's theme. Most notably, Plato and Aristotle are at the painting's center, as founders of the two primary systems of philosphical thought.
Religion is inherently Platonic, and Christian doctrine in particular is heavily influenced by Plato.
The sciences, technology, and all that makes up our modern way of life, in contrast to Plato, are directly descended from Aristotle's works. Although there were natural philosophers prior to Aristotle, his writings were far more comprehensive, and are the predominant foundation for all of the scientific advances made since the Renaissance.
In fact, it can be argued that the Renaissance itself resulted from the introduction of Aristotle's writings (most of which had been thought to be lost) into Europe, brought there from Moslem lands
Before that time, the only works of Aristotle known and taught in Europe were those which had been translated from the Greek into Latin by Boethius, 477 AD - 524 AD: Categories, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Topics, and Sophistical Refutations. |
The introduction of those writings into Europe was the central spark that ignited the transition from beliefs in revelation, the hallmark of the Dark Ages, to reasoned, reality-based thought, and the scientific principles of causality and logic, the hallmark of the Renaissance.
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